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Pc Purchasing Questions

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Tweek Etimua
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-07-30 02:46:01 UTC
So i played eve for a bit and loved it. Then my pc died. Im on a a sort of budget and am lookng at this pc http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-x51/fs. The $699 one. Would this or any of these play eve well?
Gilbaron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-07-30 02:49:12 UTC
that link doesnt work

you should also know that dell PCs are usually overpriced
Tweek Etimua
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-07-30 02:52:41 UTC
Well its the alienware x51. If there are cheeper and equaly good pc's out there i would love to know about them
xpl0de
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-07-30 02:55:42 UTC
Build your own pc young tadpole. Only way to go.

-10.0 since the Womb
Gianath
Gallentian Legitimate Businessmen
#5 - 2012-07-30 02:58:23 UTC
Tweek Etimua wrote:
So i played eve for a bit and loved it. Then my pc died. Im on a a sort of budget and am lookng at this pc http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-x51/fs. The $699 one. Would this or any of these play eve well?


The specs look good enough for running 1 client as medium settings or a couple of clients at lowest graphic settings.

I couldn't suggest anything better at the moment.
Tweek Etimua
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-07-30 02:58:56 UTC
Eh. Im not incredibly knowlagable in PC stuff. And im wanting to get back into eve asap.
gulftobay
Mesotopia
#7 - 2012-07-30 03:06:24 UTC
Check out the Dell XPS line, highly recommended here.
charles laforge
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2012-07-30 18:36:55 UTC
just find a local independant pc shop and walk in and say " $500 to build me a good system based around the processor and graphics"
quad cores are cheap now , same as third generation cards,, memory costs have fallen,, and you could probably get a great quality powersupply and cpu cooler for a good price too,
the most expensive part will be the ops sys tbh,,, and most good independants would put that together for you in your existing case and keep your old guts etc to cover the build time
Lilliana Stelles
#9 - 2012-07-30 18:41:35 UTC
gulftobay wrote:
Check out the Dell XPS line, highly recommended here.


Seconded. Nearly identical configurations to alienware, but it'll save you a few hundred.

Not a forum alt. 
Lilith Amunet
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-07-30 20:27:18 UTC
charles laforge wrote:
just find a local independant pc shop and walk in and say " $500 to build me a good system based around the processor and graphics"
quad cores are cheap now , same as third generation cards,, memory costs have fallen,, and you could probably get a great quality powersupply and cpu cooler for a good price too,
the most expensive part will be the ops sys tbh,,, and most good independants would put that together for you in your existing case and keep your old guts etc to cover the build time


This ^

the amount extra you pay on prebuilt machines is stupid. For that $699 you can get alot better even if you give a friend $10 to do it for you.
Ms Kat
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2012-07-30 20:31:19 UTC
charles laforge wrote:
just find a local independant pc shop and walk in and say " $500 to build me a good system based around the processor and graphics"
quad cores are cheap now , same as third generation cards,, memory costs have fallen,, and you could probably get a great quality powersupply and cpu cooler for a good price too,
the most expensive part will be the ops sys tbh,,, and most good independants would put that together for you in your existing case and keep your old guts etc to cover the build time



Best advise here so far!


Id also put it to you that if you were determind you could use google and research the current technologys then youtube the ways to install componants and build your very own baby... i mean PC Twisted
Tweek Etimua
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2012-08-01 05:13:30 UTC
Sweet. Thanx for the advise all.
Togg Bott
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2012-08-01 05:23:35 UTC
easy to do... newegg.com has everything you need to build a rig to play a few clients of EvE at a reasonable resolution without breaking your wallet. they even have a tutorial for basic computer building if your uncertain on how to do it.
Abel Merkabah
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#14 - 2012-08-01 05:33:02 UTC
Good luck OP!

I has studio XPS and it worked fine (excluding graphics card problem that was on a 2 year old card). I just recently purchased a new chassis, psu and GPU; kept rest of hardware and it is working great.

If you do buy prebuilt (suggestions to build own or have someone build for you are best advice), you probably can get away with an XPS. May just need to throw better graphics card in it.

James315 for CSM 8!
Celeste Taylor
Ruby Dynasty
#15 - 2012-08-01 06:04:45 UTC
How dead is your original computer. $700 will go far especially if you can salvage parts from your previous system. You will even save a bundle even if all you recycle is your HDD, optical, case, psu, RAM, keyboard and mouse. Even better if one of the major parts like the GPU, CPU or motherboard can be saved.
Richard Desturned
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#16 - 2012-08-01 06:30:46 UTC
it's great when you tell someone "well, you can easily buy the parts and assemble one yourself for $750" and they give the token "well you can get one with the same specs from dell for $100 less" response

the best part is when you tell them why it's $100 less

npc alts have no opinions worth consideration
Tweek Etimua
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2012-08-03 23:26:56 UTC
I've found an old tower that looks like it could be rebuilt. But it raisex more questions then answers like how can i tell if an Nvidia card is newer/more powerfull than the one ccp sugjests? =\ i might just have some one build it for me.
Luc Chastot
#18 - 2012-08-03 23:36:54 UTC
6XX > 5XX > 4XX > etc for Nvidia

HD7XXX > HD6XXX > HD5XXX > etc for AMD

Basically, higher numbers are better.

Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Tweek Etimua
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2012-08-03 23:46:31 UTC
So wich of those are bettet than the NVIDIA Gforce 7300 GT? Basicaly all im interested in is running a single client, but would like to run resanably high graphics.

Chatte Noire
PepperPark Deep Space Operations
#20 - 2012-08-04 00:06:53 UTC
charles laforge wrote:
just find a local independant pc shop and walk in and say " $500 to build me a good system based around the processor and graphics"
quad cores are cheap now , same as third generation cards,, memory costs have fallen,, and you could probably get a great quality powersupply and cpu cooler for a good price too,
the most expensive part will be the ops sys tbh,,, and most good independants would put that together for you in your existing case and keep your old guts etc to cover the build time


^

Once more: This.
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