AboutBobbert Expertise General purchasing questions, in areas regarding price to performance ratios and future expansion, drawing from roughly a decade of experience and numerous unique situations for customers and myself, I'm willing to help you get the best computer for your money.
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Question QUESTION: I am starting to become an avid PC gamer and I'm looking to buy a new desktop computer suitable for gaming. I have a couple of PC games right now that I am running on my laptop but they seem slow and the graphics are choppy. I'm trying to find a PC that meets my requirements but I don't know much about processors or video cards. The requirements are 2.5GHz single core processor and either a 256MB DirectX 9.0c compliant pixel shader 2 or 128MB 3D Video Card. Any suggestions on computers that will work?
ANSWER: What games are you looking to play? And what kind of budget are you able to afford to this?
-bob
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QUESTION: The games that I want to play, and the ones that are choppy on my laptop are, Grand Ages Rome and the Special Forces Edition of Empire Total War from Best Buy. I'd like to keep my budget between $1,000 and $1,500 at the most but I can save more if needed. I've seen the Alienware laptops but those are really pricey. I can also build one from scratch if that would be cheaper, I'd just need to know some brands of computer components or specs.
I would make a few ammendments, for example perhaps trade the HD 4870 for an HD 4890, or purchase one of the now less expensive HD 4870's (at ~$160, vs $210). Realize that this guide is a bit old (dating to February 2009), so pricing is likely a bit off, although the information contained is still good.
