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Buying a PC need any help
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Kinete Jenius
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2015-08-25 20:20:12 UTC
Yazmin Vega wrote:
Bungarus Candidus wrote:
I am a returning player who needs to get a new desktop to play the game. Currently playing on an old laptop that works for missions and the the boring stuff but in no way would work for any sort of pvp.

I know next to nothing about computers in terms of what all the numbers and cards and acronyms mean. I have been looking online on different websites and browsing but to be honest i have no idea what i'm scanning over or looking for.

I need a PC that will play eve and can keep up with pvp and larger fleet fights and hopefully run at least 2 clients with other background programs running. I would also like a PC that can be upgraded in the future if need be. Has to be a desktop.

As of now im just overwhelmed at all the brands and not knowing anything about what is a reliable brand or anything so any help will be greatly appreciated. Also i have no skills at building my own so a prepackaged eve machine would be best. Thanks for any help.



Here's a start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpF3QiOdXU

That video is over a year old and pretty irrelevant. For example the A78M-E he quoted as selling at $30 was/is selling at +$60 if you can even find it. If you could find that mobo for $30 over a year ago that would of been a very good deal. The case he quotes for $31 goes for +$62. The 80+ PSU he listed is $49 not $30. So that build is more realistically about $400.

I've had awful luck with seagate drives in the last 7 years. The bad luck started around 08 when a barracuda drive self bricked due to a bug in the firmware. This bug was known by seagate but they couldn't be bothered with recalling drives or even attaching a sticker to warn people to update the firmware. I do give seagate some props for paying for my drive's recovery. That drive ended up dying a year later. Meanwhile the WD drives I bought prior to that seagate drive are either alive or were intentionally killed by me. Every other seagate drive I've bought since then has died in less than two years. I was sad when Seagate bought out Samsung harddrive business as Samsung made solid cheap drives.
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