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Postby CC>>Doogiavich on Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:43 am

PROCESSORS Intel® Core™ i5-650 processor(4MB Cache, 3.20GHz) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English edit
MEMORY 3GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz edit
MONITOR No Monitor
VIDEO CARD nVIDIA GeForce G310 512MB DDR3
HARD DRIVE 500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/-RW Drive
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WIRELESS Dell 1525 WLAN PCIe card with11n mini-Card & external antenna
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MOUSE Dell Studio Optical Mouse

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Re: what do you think

Postby CC>>skippy722 on Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:59 pm

seems pretty good, but is that a integrated or stand alone graphics card? is the ram for it dedicated or shared?
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Re: what do you think

Postby CC>>Trick on Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:15 pm

i would go for a min of 4 gigs of ram.
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Re: what do you think

Postby CC>>Clown on Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:27 pm

if your budget allows, I'd up the ram as well and go for a higher end video card, such as a GeForce GTX 260...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... esult=True
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Re: what do you think

Postby CC>>Doogiavich on Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:30 am

PROCESSORS Intel® Core™ i5-650 processor(4MB Cache, 3.20GHz)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English
MEMORY 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIM
MONITOR No Monitor
VIDEO CARD nVidia GeForce GTS240 1024MB GDDR3
HARD DRIVE 500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/-RW Drive
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Re: what do you think

Postby CC>>Clown on Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:54 pm

8gs of ram may be overkill and unnecessary (depending on what your doing). Either 4 or 6 should be sufficient for most needs. With the money saved from that, in addition to scaling the card back to the default GeForce G310, think about getting the GTX260 as a separate purchase, not from Dell (I don't think they sell that card anyway). The performance gains trump the 240 and has gotten many good reviews. I think ultimately you'll be disappointed with the 240. Keep in mind, selecting a video card depends on how much quality you decide to turn your games up to as well as your monitor size.

Some reading material:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2 ... 388,00.asp
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/gr ... rds,1.html
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/review ... perclocked

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Re: what do you think

Postby CC>>Trick on Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:34 pm

Agreed. I would aim at 4-6 gigs. 8 if u really want to but not very necessary. I also agree. You should by at the min a 260.
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Re: what do you think

Postby CC>>Doogiavich on Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:34 am

im looking for somthing to run bad company 2 so i can a actually see you guys running into my bullets

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Re: what do you think

Postby CC>>Clown on Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:32 am

I have the GTX 260 with 6 gigs of ram (which is why I'm so preferential to the card :D )

So far in the beta of Bad Company 2, the game has run flawlessly with everything turned up. I have the i7 920 processor which also helps.

Mind you, having good hardware won't make you an awesome player...heck look at Trick :lol: (here it comes....)

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