Planning for a new computer.

[Caution]

I want a new computer because my current one is a piece of stuff; my phone almost has a fast a processor as my PC (a bit of a stretch but you get the point). I want to build one and I want it to be good. I know you guys are techy as hell so Id figure Id get some advice. I'm not buying yet, I just want to have an approximate cost and what I can get for what I might have. My only real want is at least a 1GB video card.

So. Yep.

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[keonesan]

Dedicated video ram usually isn't a good thing to go by. It's usually a scam. I've seen lots of a really crappy cards with 1 gig dedicated v-ram.

Anyways I could build you a pretty lovey computer for about 1000 dollars. Depending on how much power you want.

What's your budget?

[Caution]

Provided I get a job sometime soon, it'd take a bit of saving but I don't have a set budget. Just a kick ass gaming computer is something I want.

[keonesan]

Provided I get a job sometime soon, it'd take a bit of saving but I don't have a set budget. Just a kick ass gaming computer is something I want.

What kind of games do you play? Source games really don't require that much resources but games like Just Cause 2, Metro 2033, Crysis, and other modern games can really rape your processor and such.

[Night Fox]

What kind of games do you play? Source games really don't require that much resources but games like Just Cause 2, Metro 2033, Crysis, and other modern games can really rape your processor and such.

kick ass gaming computer

I'm sure that running Source games isn't considered kick ass.

[Caution]

Decent enough to run like Fallout 3 pr New Vegas, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, and maybe Battlefield Bad Company on decent settings. I'm not too sure if those are high end or not.

Also is Source a make or a category?

I feel like such a newb to this stuff.

[keonesan]

Decent enough to run like Fallout 3 pr New Vegas, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, and maybe Battlefield Bad Company on decent settings. I'm not too sure if those are high end or not.

Also is Source a make or a category?

I feel like such a newb to this stuff.

Source as in Source engine games like l4d2, hl2, tf2, etc.

Anyways running Fallout 3 really isn't that hard. Surprisingly it's not that much of a resource hog but I do believe New Vegas will lag the forget out of you without the proper patch due to some npc bug. Bad Company on the other hand (if you're referring to the second game) will need some pretty good specs to run. Need For Speed also isn't that resource heavy.

[Caution]

Yes, I was referring to the second. The Sims 3 may also be a possibility.

What bug did New Vegas have?

[keonesan]

Yes, I was referring to the second. The Sims 3 may also be a possibility.

What bug did New Vegas have?

I don't know it's some NPC glitch that causes all systems to lag no matter what your specs are. There's a non-official patch that even the developers are supporting. It's some DirectX patch that fixes it. I think the developers already patched the bug but I'm not sure.

[Caution]

Lol that's great.

But yeah. How much RAM would you say Id need?

[Cyanian]

But yeah. How much RAM would you say Id need?

4GB is a minimum these days but I'd say 8GB (2x4G) is best.

I have a couple great recommendations which I can supply later once more information is decided on the Mobo and CPU.

[Caution]

Well it'd better be awesome.

[Jubel]

Buy something not made by dell.