A (better) guide to buying or upgrading your PC

[dylankrajewski]

OK.. so rawr-saours made a guide like this, but i couldn't understand anything at all, it was either his spelling or poor layout (no offense broseph).

So here is mine.

Depending on what your PC can currently do, you might not have to do very much to enhance it.

so here is typically the most basic set up for Battlefield, if you can run battlefield highest specs, you can run any game.

Highest possible settings:

Ram: typically DDR3 should be more than 4GB, in between 6 and 12 gb should suffice.

Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD above 6500 series, Sapphire above 6500 series, and for Geforce, should be above GTX 550Ti

CPU: should be quad core above 3Ghz, you MIGHT get away with a Core 2 duo E6000 2.8Ghz.

Medium Settings:

Ram: DDR3 4Gb should be enough.

Graphics card: ATI HD series, above 5700 series, geforce shpuld be about GTX 520

CPU: quad core 2.6Ghz or core 2 duo 2.6Ghz

Low settings:

Don't even bother, it will look like minecraft, go play that instead.


My Specs:

4GB DDR2 1033Mghz RAM
ATI Radeon HD6670
Quad core Intel 2.8GHz
2x 1TB HDD
1x 420GB SSD
Battlefield 3 limited edition Razer Imperator Mouse
Logitech G110 keyboard (LIGHTS UP)
ATX Midwin Case
4 Fans (Heatsink, PSU, two extra ones on the top of the case, they suck air up and out the top, installed my self i.e i cut holes in the top of my $200 case to install fans LAWL)
22in LCD monitor (1280x1024)
27in HD LED monitor (1900x1600) (Main Screen)
Turtle Beach Z6A headset


To buy a new PC, takes a lot of lloking and searching for the right parts, in ALL cases it is better to build a PC from scratch.
e.g. i likethe Alienware Auora on the Dell website, but i went to an Australian PC store online, got the exact same specifications, all that was different as the case, and i got it for almost $1000 AUD less.

So if your looking for a PC, upgrading or buying, tell me the parts list, and what you want your computer to do, and i will tell you if it is good enough, if your are upgrading, tell me the part you have, and the part you are going to buy.

[kokole]

Low settings:

Don't even bother, it will look like minecraft, go play that instead.

hahaha lmao

[Arteq]

Tip: buy Alienware, be god

[d0h!]

Tip: buy Alienware, be god

alienware aka dell is just weak. bad components, almost everything is oem.
also you pay too much just to get the alienware logo on your rig

you can build a much better, faster and more reliable machine by your own for less money

[alvarogt95]

i dont think u need a processor so above 3ghz my friend have the same processor like my bro q9300 2.5 ghz and he runs bf3 on ultra..

[dylankrajewski]

i dont think u need a processor so above 3ghz my friend have the same processor like my bro q9300 2.5 ghz and he runs bf3 on ultra..

Run on ultra without frame rate loss i meant to say, constant 60fps no drops, except for smoke grenades.

[alvarogt95]

i dont think u need a processor so above 3ghz my friend have the same processor like my bro q9300 2.5 ghz and he runs bf3 on ultra..

Run on ultra without frame rate loss i meant to say, constant 60fps no drops, except for smoke grenades.

I don't really see any differences i have an i7 and q9300 and tested with the same gpu and there's not differences in my opinion.I think it depends more about the gpu

[dylankrajewski]

i dont think u need a processor so above 3ghz my friend have the same processor like my bro q9300 2.5 ghz and he runs bf3 on ultra..

Run on ultra without frame rate loss i meant to say, constant 60fps no drops, except for smoke grenades.

I don't really see any differences i have an i7 and q9300 and tested with the same gpu and there's not differences in my opinion.I think it depends more about the gpu

GPU doesn't really matter, its the processing power and the size of the memory, because an Xbox has only a ATI RADEON card that is in the 6500 series, as long as a card has the ability to render 3D, Textures at a high level, and other things, its fine, i played mw2 on my laptop with 3GB DDR2 ram, ati x1900 portable, and a core 2 duo e6000, and i played at medium graphics, all because my RAM and processor is pretty low. the new Xbox will only contain a HD 6770, rumors say, but if it's true, you can see you don't need a 600 dollar graphics card to play games, i play MW3 at full graphics with a 6670, 4gb ddr3 ram and a quad core intel 2.8ghx processor.

[alvarogt95]

fuck eggbox
pc is the best platform xd