gaming computer?

Question

hey i wanna buy a gaming computer to play star wars galaxies. what are really good specifications for a computer to play galaxies without lag and great performance? this is for a desktop too

Answer 1

get somthing with 2 gigs of ram and about a nvidia 8600 or higher videocard ...

Answer 2

The numbers on the ATI 2900XT are better then the Nvidia 8800gtx and cheaper, but it matters the motherboard you choose on what would work best on getting 2 of them.

Then for the cpu it is a choice from AMD or intel, just at least 3.0 or higher even the duel cores. If you want to overclock the CPU I would say to get an after market cooler, such as Silver Knight which can be found at www.nexfan.com It uses oil for cooling and will get the temp below room temp if you also use artic silver. You can get a quad core for around $260

Then for ram I would go with the higher speed and not more then 4 gbs unless you are going with the 64 bit version. Motherboards AMD I would go with 590 north bridge
Intel I would go with the intel 975X north bridge or the nvidia 680i. If you go with 975X it would be better with the ATI graphics cards.

Power supply if you are going with 2 graphics cards and some extra fans then I would recommend a 750 watt power supply with 85% or higher Efficiency and FOUR +12V rails
Case is also important, which a lot of people do not like having it, but a big case is best for good air flow.

For hard drives to have the best speed go with raptors in a Raid 0, you could have that for games and another one installed for OS system. Like a big hard drive for movies, music, and other things which are not with the games. The third one could be something with 16mb cache and sata connection. I would also recommend hard drive coolers which would be big fans on the bottom of the drive and a cage on top of them, they are listed at nexfan.com and most all others can be found on newegg.com and other sites.

For the dvd burners you can get sata or even blu-ray which will play hd dvd also, well most of them (around $280).
Also on monitors go with some with low response time, 22 inch would be what I would say around $210 with rebates and all out there.

This would be a cutting edge pc, if you go with AMD then it will be a lot cheaper in cost with a higher fsb, but I love intel. You could also look off Alienware on the parts used and match the numbers. That would be a cutting edge system.

To go cheaper you can get some hard drive with Sata and 16mb cache on them. The power supply could just be a very nice 500Watt if you are just going to use one graphics card. And a dvd burner which is Sata instead of the blu-ray. But the motherboard really makes the system great. I would also stay with windows XP with how Vista really does not work with a lot of the older games well.

Answer 3

Dell XPS 720 or Dell XPS 720H2C are listed on the Dell website under gaming desktops. I would recommend the 720 because it is cheaper and the 720H2C has way too many things you dont need. They are fully customizable. Go to the link below.

Answer 4

Get a Compaq with a Nevada Video Card

Answer 5

My suggestion would be first to check the game box for the requirements, then get something better than that, or at least get the highest end equipment that is listed on the box.

Answer 6

a dual core proc and a nvidia 7800gs-gtx, nvidia 8600gt-gts. cant recommend ati since i dont deal with them. their cards run too high and hot.

Answer 7

anything that has the name Alienware on it will do the trick!