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| Thread ID: 127957 | 2012-11-24 04:33:00 | Any Recommendations please | tigerj2 (16879) | Press F1 |
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| 1314528 | 2012-11-24 06:08:00 | www.computerlounge.co.nz PBTech is same price + GST... Tell them to match price or something, do that for everything you buy. www.pbtech.co.nz thanks mate you have been extremely helpful :) i will get the 7750 and the cooler master 525W extreme power 2 |
tigerj2 (16879) | ||
| 1314529 | 2012-11-24 06:16:00 | Honestly, you will not see anything good from this. Will be a waste of money buying those games. MW3's minimum specs are better than you CPU - not by much, but just points out that you will have a terrible experience. Your CPU is just too old. Sorry. It can pull 50+ fps in dirt2 on max. Games aren't really cpu intensive (for the most part), I think that there would be no problem playing mw3 on a 255. Considering it still uses the same engine from COD4. You can only try. Consequences of using a dodgy psu with a gpu are basically the GPU may put more load on the PSU than it can handle (even though it technically should be able to handle it, cheap parts perform badly) causing the psu to die in a spectacular fashion. This could damage other components in your pc. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1314530 | 2012-11-24 07:01:00 | Skyrim isn't as bad as oblivion, but it'll still be bad on lower end machine. It is quite CPU intensive. I don't know about MW3, I was going by the requirements here: callofduty.wikia.com |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1314531 | 2012-11-25 00:36:00 | I am looking for a graphics card available on pbtech.co.nz to buy for around the $150-$200 mark. The powersupply is this one www.aywun.com Forget the GPU, change the PSU immediately, they are the second worst next to Hyena. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1314532 | 2012-11-25 01:11:00 | Any game that uses alot of physics will use alot of cpu if your running an amd card as their is no physx support, but then again physx is only usefull on higher end nvidia gpu's | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1314533 | 2012-11-25 03:43:00 | Forget the GPU, change the PSU immediately, they are the second worst next to Hyena. would this one www.computerlounge.co.nz recommended by Cato work? if not can you suggest a psu around the 100 dollar mark that would? |
tigerj2 (16879) | ||
| 1314534 | 2012-11-25 04:04:00 | It will work for sure but to get a okay quality psu its around $180 for the 450w mark, however a 350w could probably easily run your rig if a 460w can run mine (as in description). But also brands make a difference. Corsair is my prefered brand as they are reasonably priced and all four of their OEMs are quality. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1314535 | 2012-11-25 04:22:00 | I'd go with any of these, all quality brands: pricespy.co.nz or pricespy.co.nz or pricespy.co.nz | icow (15313) | ||
| 1314536 | 2012-11-26 02:05:00 | If you were building a new machine then sure the CPU is too weak, but as you have it already then adding a graphics card is not a bad Idea and will let you play quite a lot of games perfectly fine. I'm sure you are aware some new games will simply not play on that machine no matter what, but most will be ok. Cooler master PSU's are ok in my opinion, they are not up to the standard of corsair or seasonic etc and tend to overstate the wattage rating, but they don't have the reputation Hyena does either. I've owned several and never had one die on me, having said that Computerlounge and pp.co.nz have some good brands around the $100 mark. Personally I'd agree with the 7750/ 7770 + new PSU recommendations and suggest if your games struggle you keep an eye on trademe for a cheap PhenomII x3 or x4 that'd fit on your motherboard - sometimes you get lucky and the combination is actually still a fairly competant gaming machine. |
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