Humor Me (new system)

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RolandDT

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Okay, now I have a friend who's got about $1100 Canadian total to spend on a new system.

I've offered to help him build a new system but all of a sudden he's got Dell Fever and is second guessing my recommendations. He wants to play WoW mostly and this is the system he's got his eyes on:

http://configure.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=ca&CS=CADHS1&l=en&oc=OCDIM3000_RBP_DHSEN

Now what is your honest opinion on a system like that for playing WoW and any other recent big titles? If you were to build a system or even get a pre-built, what would your recommendations be? Thanks.
 
That video isn't going to run much of anything by todays standards. It's low on ram, has a small hard drive, and its a Dell. :( I've said this three times today, but here one more before I goto sleep. Dell has shitty tech support, I fix alot of dell stuff still under warranty because people don't want the hassle. Tell him to listen to you, don't buy a dell.

 
microcosm13 said:
That video isn't going to run much of anything by todays standards. It's low on ram, has a small hard drive, and its a Dell. :( I've said this three times today, but here one more before I goto sleep. Dell has shitty tech support, I fix alot of dell stuff still under warranty because people don't want the hassle. Tell him to listen to you, don't buy a dell.

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Exactly :cool:

WoW System Requirments=

Processor: 800MHz or higher CPU.
RAM: 256Mb or more.
Video: GeForce 2 or better
Hard Drive Space: 3Gb or more available.
DirectX 9.0 or above.

I dont think that Intel integrated crap will even run that game, let alone well.
 
Ouch, intel integrated....

That won't even run the first Unreal game well.
 
The Intel GMA 900 and 950 are much improved over the Intel "Extreme Graphics" from the 810g/845g/865g days. Thay can actually run 2.0 pixel/vertex shaders(although one of them requires CPU assist) and they have more RAM bandwidth to play with on a dual channel DDR2 system than previous Intel IGP platforms.

However, it is still going to fall short in WoW. It might be able to run WoW in 800x600, but that would be as far as you'd get. Given that Dell doesn't offer any grahpics expansion options, the otherboard may not even have a PCI-E X16 slot to put a better graphics card in, and a graphics card of any power at all would probably require a PSU upgrade as well.

The ~$120 Venice chip from Ewiz, $100 for 1GB of RAM, an $80 mobo, $60 80GB HDD, $50 DVD Burner, $120-160 GF6600(GT?), $70 PSU, $50 for whatever case comes to $690. That comes in $40 less than the Dell system, give him twice the HDD space, at least double the game performance, a DVD Burner(!) and twice the RAM(!)

At that point, he can spend $60-100 on a cheapie CRT monitor, or scrounge up the $250 for a 17" LCD, and be light years ahead of that Dell system.
 
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