Need Help On How To Pick A New Pc.

[Munchiesz]

is this any good for 350$ new pc? lol Help me plz.

Computer specifications:

☑ Gigabyte AM3+ Motherboard

☑ AMD FX BULLDOZER SIX CORE 3.3GHZ WITH 12MB Total Cache ** Upgradable to Eight Core **

☑ 4GB DDR3 HIGH SPEED RAM

☑ DVD Burner Optical Drive

☑ Radeon HD3000 Graphics with 2GB total memory and 512MB dedicated will support Dual Screen VGA & DVI

** Upgrade to Higher Video Card for $125 to play all the newer games on high settings **

☑ Hard Drive 500GB 7200RPM Sata

(Upgrade to 1TB for only $25 more )

☑ Lan Ethernet port 1 x Realtek 8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit) ** Add wireless for $25 300mps N **

☑ Black ATX Case with Blue LED Fan on side panel

☑ 500W Power Supply Unit

(Upgrade to 1TB hard drive for only $20 more )

☑ Realtek ALC889 codec High Definition Audio 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel

☑ Operation System installed Windows 8 64 Bit ( Faster and Smoother than Windows 7 )

☑ Anti-Virus Installed Avast

[supream]

I would get a better graphics card. Six core processor? What is this madness? You will probably never use all those efficiently, unless you are a computer programmer, video and picture editor, and what not. Six cores just for gaming doesn't sound right. There is a problem with running ro in full screen with windows 8 but its not a problem that can't be fixed. Seems like a lot for just 350$ who makes the pc?

[Munchiesz]

a random person. or this other pc? which one is better? help me supream. i don't know much about pcs.=(

1 Terabyte Hitachi Deskstar Hard drive

QUAD CORE Processor FX 4130 Black Edition

Operating Frequency 3.8GHz

Turbo Speed 3.9GHz

Number of Cores Quad-Core

Level 2 Cache 4MB

Level 3 Cache 4MB

Thermal Power 125W

Socket Type Socket AM3+

1 Gigabyte DDR3 Dedicated VIDEO CARD SPECS

GPU Manufacturer AMD

GPU Chipset Radeon HD 6450

Number of GPUs 1

Overclocked No

Core Clock Speed 625MHz

RAMDAC Clock Speed 400MHz

Shader Clock 1250MHz

Stream Processors 160

Maximum Digital Resolution 2560x1600

Maximum Analog Resolution 2048x1536

Max Monitors Supported 2

Edited May 9, 2013 by Munchiesz

[supream]

man a terabyte? you're never going to use all the space unless you constantly download tons of videos. If you plan on keeping this desktop for the next 6 years or more then I would go for the first one with an eight core for advanced 3D gaming (I hope you're not going to just be playing ro forever) and upgrade the graphics card to either an AMD 7000 series (just pick the latest one if possible) or get the Nvidia Geforce GTX series ( although AMD graphics would work better with an AMD processor). You can always buy more hard drive space later, or just delete stuff because 500 gigs is a lot. Depending if you have a ethernet net cable available or not get the wireless add on because using a card sucks. Might want to get a little more RAM but that depends on you. everything else is fine. Considering those add ones it would probably run it up to around $500, but with those specs it should cost like $1,600 or even more than that lol who you buying this stuff from? It seems like your buying something that someone put together rather than a company since you don't know the manufacture name. Be warned there is no warranty on those and if it sucks when you buy it from that person then you're out of luck.

Edited May 9, 2013 by supream

[Munchiesz]

yea its a person who makes them on Craigslist. lol and which one would you recommend?

[supream]

The first one. Re-read what i said in my last post.

[Munchiesz]

oh alright maybe ill get it then upgrade it when i have the money. thanks so much man.any more tips you can give me?

Edited May 10, 2013 by Munchiesz

[supream]

Here's a tip if a deal sounds to good to be true then it usually is. I don't see how you can get all that for $500 there might be some sort of catch there.

[Munchiesz]

O.O i think the person has a shop i might just go and check it up.

[Nasus]

Go file your ticket about ring nga. hahaha

[Rayray]

I wouldn't let someone build me a pc if I myself am not that good at the hardware, you might get screwed. I would prefer to get it from a company or build one myself, because it really sounds way too good to be true. Six-core processor is kinda overkill though. I program using Ruby and develop web applications using Ruby on Rails framework, and I barely use 2 cores when I am working. Unless you plan on rendering videos, I don't think 6 cores would be needed(especially if it is just for gaming). And what Supream said too, get a better graphics card, you never know when will they release a game that is graphics intensive, so aim a little higher on the graphics card.

500 GB hard drive is enough, you can always buy an external one and put your movies and stuff you don't always use in there.

I would honestly upgrade to more than 4gb ram, I aim high so I would get 8 since I kinda need it.

And I do hope you invest something to cool that rig. Not sure nowadays since I mostly use gaming laptops and macs, but my experience in AMD is it heats a little faster.

[Munchiesz]

well i found a better pc for sale. this is what it has

6.00GB ram

64 bit Operating System

Nvidia GeForce GTX 460

=]

[supream]

thats all? what about the other specs?

[Nasus]

Nigga just Ask me i will tell Edgar and he won't take your money. I have a dumb cousin. Oh yea go see if they answer your damn tickets for the ring!

+ 1 . HAHAAHAHAHA

[Kimblee]

i7 3770k

x2 gtx titan

corsair dominator platinum

Asus maximus V formula

corsair force 128 SSD

fully modular PSU - corsair

and good cooling... liquid cooling extra fans oh yeah

cooler master HAFx / corsair obsidian series

[Munchiesz]

yea i suck on pc shit maybe ill ask Edgar . no reply on my ticket. =(

[Bishop]

Alright, I could give you a long answer or a short one. :P

The first computer you mentioned would indeed cost more than 500. If someone would be attempting to sell it for 500 it's fishy. Aside from that the powersupply is actually too weak for the rest of the specs, causing it to break rather quickly or not run at all.

I personally use a quad core with multi threading so it uses it as 8 cores instead. You really won't need anything more than a regular quad core for gaming. Anything more will be usable once you are going to video-edit, are running an audio studio on your computer or have other visual or audio work of that sort.

The graphicscard on the first noted setup is rather weak and won't last for years if you want to play the most recent and upcoming games. However the line of "** Upgrade to Higher Video Card for $125 to play all the newer games on high settings **" scares me. That's an obvious sentence to trick the people that don't know much about hardware. Yes, a 125 dollar graphics card can give you enough to play all the newer games, however it does really depend on what graphic card it would be. And there's a chance you could get a cheaper one with the same result :).

I would however higher the amount of RAM you have selected in the setup as 4gb is the current minimum.

Last but not least : Gigabyte AM3+ Motherboard <- This does not give enough information. There's a TON of gigabyte am3+ motherboards. You'll need a version or serial number so you can look it up online. And make sure you have at least 2 PCI-Express slots and multiple slots for your RAM memory. Also check the compatibility of the motherboard with different CPU's. This way you'll know if you can use the motherboard long-term or if it is not possible to get more out of it than you currently are buying.