Not in a hurry for a new computer

[Voldymort]

We can't give you advice on what parts are good for their cost if the costs vary for different parts.

can you rephrase that please?

[darrelljs]

I'll take a crack at it:

Its impossible to give you advice on what parts are good for their cost if the costs vary for different geographies.

Darrell

[Voldymort]

Can you at least tell me if the cheaper video card is more than enough for Diablo3 and StarCraft2? I'm not interested in Skyrim so i don't need a NASA type config

[Jkaen]

Cant seem to find it atm, but I am pretty sure I have been linked form here to a website that gives you a ranking of all graphic cards.

You then look to see what the recommended spec on a game is, if your card is higher up on the list, you are fine

[pling]

Do you mean this one, Jkaen? http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gami...107-7.html

[Krill]

Fuck my graphics card is 6 years old and it's only 2 tiers beneath the 750...

[Voldymort]

One of my colegues who works in the pc hardware department made a better configuration (a better price too )

Power Source Inter-Tech Combat Power 550W - 150 Lei (47)

Case Game Daemon 6004, Mid Tower, fara sursa, Negru - 215 Lei (67)

DVD Writer Asus DRW-24F1ST/BLK/B/AS, SATA, Negru, Bulk -75 Lei (23)

Video Card Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GT 630, 2048MB, DDR3, 128bit, HDMI, DVI, VGA - 255 Lei (79)

Processor Intel® CoreTM i5 3350P, 3100MHz, 6MB, socket 1155 -720 Lei (224)

MB Gigabyte B75M-D3H, socket 1155 -265 Lei (82)

HDD WD Blue 1TB, 7200rpm, 64MB, SATA 3 -240 Lei (75)

Memory Kingston 4GB, DDR3, 1600MHz, Non-ECC, CL11, 1.5V, LowProfile -175 Lei (54)

[NobleHelium]

That is a fucking terrible configuration. You are not going to do anything with a 630. You're also paying the Intel motherboard tax without a meaningfully better processor.

[Bobchillingworth]

My desktop has significantly better specs, and I put it together almost three years ago for slightly over 600 bucks. I didn't even custom-build most of it- just bought a bare-bones ZT Systems PC from Costco's website that had a good processor, HD & a fair amount of memory, and then purchased a much better graphics card and power supply during one of Newegg's seemingly endless sales. It works great- actually, only large, late-game FFH maps really tax it, and I think that's because Civ IV isn't optimized for multiple cores.

[Krill]

When designing a gaming PC the aim is to get the best possible graphics card and then design everything around that.

Generally, anything slower than a nVidia 660 or preferably an AMD 270X isn't really worth it IMO. Graphics cards tend not to obsolete that fast though; I'm using an old nVidia 260 from 2008 and it still chugs along OK in most games, but I don't play anything taxing.