I went to dell.ca(yes im canadian) and im looking for a computer that is low price but that can be good for gaming..so i went to customize this "Dimension E521"
originally 399$ ,it had a crappy integrated vid card which is the "NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU" so i customizedit to 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro [add $120]
if its confusing..go to the link and try it for urself..
http://configure.dell.com/dellstore/conf...
so will this pc be good for gaming? even thought the processor isnt like that good
Dimension E521- Total :519$ with the customized video card.
AMD Sempron™ Processor 3400+
Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
No Monitor
512MB Single Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz - 1DIMM
80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
48X CD-RW/ DVD Combo Drive
256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
2007-01-01 11:28:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
MSG TO POST #3.sleepless[TR]
yeah its great but its no longer in stock...i was on vacation during boxing day week
2007-01-01 11:52:26 · update #1
MSG TO POST #4..BASICALLY THIS COMP SUKS..THNX A LOT FOR GUIDING..FORGET ABOUT THIS PC IM NOT BUYING IT
2007-01-01 11:54:46 · update #2
the hard drive is okay if ur mostly using it for games, cuz they will take only a certain amount of space on the hard disk, like a 1 gigabyte or maybe two(i might be wrong cuz my computer is very old and thus i dont play modern games cuz it cant support them), and i doubt u will install 25 games all at once....so hard disk isnt a problem.
but get more RAM cuz 512 mb isnt enough, nowadays 1GB and more is in. Games these days and onwards require 1Gb of Ram and by next year they probably require around 2GB RAM.
the processor seems like it'll do the job, if ur sure that it'll play ur games properly than its good enough, and if the graphics card will do the main heavy lifting than great cuz i saw an answer in which the guy play medal of honor smoothly below minimum requirements cuz he had a great graphics card with it.
So, get more ram like 1 GB and ur good.
2007-01-01 13:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That computer will be a great gamer. It's not so much the processor that makes a good gaming PC as it is the video card. I've played Medal of Honor on a Pentium II computer running at 350MHz (below the game's minimum requirements) but becase I had an AGP video card with 128MB of RAM, the game ran great. I would put more RAM in that computer though because after the video card, RAM is the next biggest component that will make or break a gaming machine.
2007-01-01 12:01:52 · answer #2 · answered by terran_ghost 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a pretty good computer. May suggest more RAM but it should easily still run modern games with that video card. Very good choice.
2007-01-01 11:35:33 · answer #3 · answered by Heh? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything is great except memory. 512MB is fine for internet and MS Office. But if you intend to do anything graphics intensive you should have at least 1GB RAM. Of coarse when it comes to RAM more is better.
2007-01-01 11:44:35 · answer #4 · answered by Onikazi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check Bestbuy.ca there are nice refurbished deals. If you are OK with refurbish process.
This still has the same video card however much newer system overall.
2007-01-01 11:47:20 · answer #5 · answered by sleepless[TR] 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
id recommend more ram, a bigger hard drive, a faster processor and most importantly, a monitor. ; )
2007-01-01 11:52:26 · answer #6 · answered by schnauzer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋