Newcomer / Intro I want this game but ...

Kuroshio · Mar 10, 2015

TYK said:
Unfortunately that's not really true. AMD chips are cheaper, this is true, but there is a larger gap between their benchmarks and Intel benchmarks than there is between their price and Intel's price. Basically - they are less powerful than they are cheap, so they're not really good at price-per-dollar either. It's a crazy thing - all AMD did was fire their best engineers and now they're having a lot of trouble designing chips!

In general, low-end Intel chips get the nod over AMD. See:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/12/the-ars-system-guides-gaming-boxes-december-2014/2/

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106.html

You're of course right as far as pure gaming is concerned.

But I was referring to work and play; as soon as you fire up a newer CS, or multi-task a little more, they are quite impressive.

Or maybe I just had bad experiences with Intel.

Evang · Mar 10, 2015

If you really want to get this game and have great graphics with framerates at least 60fps and not break your purse. Go to newegg.com get a computer with an intel I5 middle priced one. spend as much as you can on a graphics card. I have a Nvidia gtx 660. works excellent but get one in the 700's you don't need the expensive 900's get a good size monitor and a x52 pro of 55 and you will never look back. I have been playing for 2 months straight and not looking forward to golf season

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the processor does not matter, Its the GPU plus your internet connection that matters the most

TYK · Mar 10, 2015

DoubtOutLoud said:
You're of course right as far as pure gaming is concerned. But I was referring to work and play; as soon as you fire up a newer CS, or multi-task a little more, they are quite impressive.

Or maybe I just had bad experiences with Intel.

I guess it depends on whether you've got a discrete GPU or not. Definitely the AMD APU's have better GPU performance than a straight Intel, although they are significantly worse than even a pretty lousy discrete GPU. But there really aren't many generalized compute tasks that AMD exceed Intels at.

From a gaming standpoint, of course, a discrete GPU isn't even a discussion point. You will have one.

Stealth Gamer92 · Mar 10, 2015

Evang said:
the processor does not matter, Its the GPU plus your internet connection that matters the most

Then why does everything nowdays say quad core minimum?

Stealth Gamer92 · Mar 13, 2015

I just found a good deal on a brand new Alienware system, are they good or not?

Jerakeen · Mar 13, 2015

Smacker said:
Why are you even here?

Because he's an insecure little man (boy?) and feels that he needs to have his opinion validated by persuading others to share it.

Olmis Aremja · Mar 13, 2015

Stealth Gamer92 said:
I just found a good deal on a brand new Alienware system, are they good or not?

You will be paying well over the top for one of those. Build your own, it's relatively easy and much cheaper that way.

Jerakeen · Mar 13, 2015

The words "good deal" and "alienware" are rarely found in the same sentence.

Stealth Gamer92 · Mar 13, 2015

Olmis Aremja said:
You will be paying well over the top for one of those. Build your own, it's relatively easy and much cheaper that way.

Well ok. I asked because the monthly payments were so low but if it that overpriced then I'll pass. Can someone list the parts they'd recomend I buy to build one? I got about $200 to spare now so I can start getting pieces together. Also how hard is it to put one together? Lego cplicated, or do I need a bit of tools & technical knowhow?
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Edit= I have a 1Terabite external Harddrive, can I use that and not have to upgrade the built in HDD?

Stealth Gamer92 · Mar 14, 2015

Thanks for all the help pointers and advice I've got all the parts I want scoped out, and with any luck I will be joining yall by mid-June to early-July.

Kuroshio · Mar 14, 2015

Now that's what I call dedication.

Good luck, and we'll be waiting for you!