I need a new computer. (Desktop)

[General Nick]

I just need a good computer that can run those games without the computer to start responding.

That computer should be fine then.

If there's no difference, it's unnecessary.
My friend's older gaming computer only has 2GB of ram and a quad core and it ran crysis on high and got 30+ FPS

>30 FPS
30 FPS is meh. 60 FPS is perfect framerate. 30 is just slow.
It is kind of necessary considering it'd help a gaming computer a lot.

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[Snaffle J. Bean]

That computer should be fine then.
>30 FPS
30 FPS is meh. 60 FPS is perfect framerate. 30 is just slow.

60 FPS looks too goddamn fast to me; it looks faster/smoother than real life in my eyes.

It is kind of necessary considering it'd help a gaming computer a lot.

My benchmarks beg to differ

[General Nick]

60 FPS looks too goddamn fast to me; it looks faster/smoother than real life in my eyes.
My benchmarks beg to differ

It's a pretty well agreed fact that more RAM is better. Unless your RAM is like, I don't know, 2000 MHz or some stuff, then maybe yeah it's fine.

[Kobewarrior]

I think CJwarrior has this computer. It looks exactly like his. He can run Gmod, some army game from steam, etc.

Also, I would love for someone to make a 1TB Ram.

[General Nick]

1TB of RAM is really, really far fetched. 1TB of hard drive space, however, is becoming more mainstream nowadays.

The most RAM a consumer motherboard can handle according to Newegg is 48GB, an EVGA SR2 motherboard with ~7 PCI-Express slots, two LGA1366 sockets and two sets of triple channel bays.

[Marcem]

60 FPS looks too goddamn fast to me; it looks faster/smoother than real life in my eyes.

Then you're too used to watching movies.  They're usually shown at 24 fps.

[TomTheGeek²]

Ha. I am getting the 580.

i3 3.1? GHZ :D.

[Snaffle J. Bean]

Then you're too used to watching movies.  They're usually shown at 24 fps.

Strange; I hate movies.

[Righteous One]

You will definitely want a new graphics card if you choose that one. The 4200 is beyond pathetic. The 5750 or another card similar to that would definitely help boost performance.

[Cyanian]

I would suggest bumping your limit up to $400 and getting this:

http://www.hardware-revolution.com/budget-gaming-pc/

I was just updated a month ago so It is pretty recent.

[Starcraftman]

He said he doesn't really want a gaming computer; just a computer that will let him play some games a little better than his current computer.

Also, pretty much anything over 2GB is overkill. I've noticed no difference to anything after I've upgraded from 2GB to 4GB.
Smart woman.

I beg to differ, playing on windows 7 means that the os will use ~1 Gb of ram leaving you 3 for games. Even when I run low end games like tf2 it uses over 900 MB of ram, and when I play higher end games like Starcraft 2, it uses over 2 gb of ram by itself. In some cases 2 GB of ram + windows 7 = Fail gaming just because those games seriously need lots of ram so you don't have to constantly be swapping data out of the ram into the pagefile which can seriously lower performance.

[Dodger]

I would get my computer built by a friend for 800$, but then my Parents wouldn't pay for 1/2 of it.

[Kobewarrior]

Well, I think my friend has this computer, and it seems to play games and work faster than mine.