Bes
join:2006-01-24
Canada
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Re: Ideal WoW PC - $400 Budget
Alright, just an update for anyone who is wondering. I ordered all the parts yesterday (Friday). I should have everything by next week. I'll let you guys know how things go.
Thanks a lot for helping me out!  |
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Bes
join:2006-01-24
Canada
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Alright, well, I think I've pretty much made up my mind now. Looking at my current situation though I'll probably need to wait another week or so and see how things go before I purchase anything, and unless someone has anything to add or suggest, then I'm pretty much set on buying these items.
I'm a little bit worried about the RAM though. They keep falling out of stock, getting restocked, and then falling out of stock over and over again. Hopefully by the time I'm ready to purchase all of this, everything will be in stock. |
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Bes
join:2006-01-24
Canada | reply to TOPDAWG
Actually, to be honest, I've played WoW on a 2.6Ghz CELERON with only 512 megs of RAM. It was awful, but still playable with low settings. |
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Bes
join:2006-01-24
Canada
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OK, good to know. I was really hoping I didn't need to spend over $50-$60 on a PSU. If 460 is fine, I'll probably just go with that.
TOPDAWG:
I guess that wouldn't be a bad idea, but I'd rather just buy the stuff separately, as I already have a case and everything else I need. I think it would just be cheaper this way. There's also the advantage of knowing just exactly what you have in your system if you build it yourself. The building itself might actually be pretty fun, too. I've always liked building and setting things up. |
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TOPDAWG
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join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON | reply to drew
Got that right I played it on a 1.3 GHZ 754 MB ram PC for a while. Only thing you really need for WOW is ram. |
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drew
Reformation
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said by Leathal  :Take what they said with a grain of salt as there are games on the horizon that will shadow World of Warcraft's graphics with the same playability if not better, if Blizzard sticks to the same rudimentary graphic design they will be holding the short end of the stick as flocks of players will leave WoW making it not feasible that Blizzard continues to operate and support World of Warcraft. Leathal I certainly don't see that happening in the near future. People STILL play the original EQ. Also, one of the great parts of WoW is that it runs half decent on terrible computers, thus allowing mom and pop to play too. The cutting-edge will always move on, and catering to that small minority is a terrible idea. |
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Leathal
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join:2002-02-09
Toronto, ON
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Funny have you seen the specs on the AMD quad core? It doesn't even come close to the Intel quad core performance, it's so bad that AMD still has not released their Quad core server CPUs which they promised would be out November of last year!
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Leathal
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join:2002-02-09
Toronto, ON
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said by Bes :Tehuno: Thanks. I was still feeling very iffy about getting the E2160, but I think you've convinced me that it will be worth the money. Leathal and Chaud: "The Expansion is not going to require users to upgrade to Vista. We have some things in the works on the end of graphics, but it's not anything that is going to require this specific upgrade." - Posted by someone from the Blizzard Team on page 12, post number 235. As for the "We have some things in works on the end of graphics" part, I don't think they'd pump the graphics too high that everyone would require anything much more than what they have in their System Requirements page. Blizzard has always made sure to make their games available to almost everyone, and that includes budget-PC-building people like me. I'm also not seeing where Leathal learned the expansion would require more CPU, video performance, and RAM... Take what they said with a grain of salt as there are games on the horizon that will shadow World of Warcraft's graphics with the same playability if not better, if Blizzard sticks to the same rudimentary graphic design they will be holding the short end of the stick as flocks of players will leave WoW making it not feasible that Blizzard continues to operate and support World of Warcraft.
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TOPDAWG
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join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
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If you want to spend less and get a nice PC you can always go refurbished. I got my wife a Gateway one from tiger direct. I just upgraded the PSU added memory it came with a 1 gig I added 2 more and added a graphics card.
It came with vista premium to if you care about that type of thing. Specs are close to this one I got her.
»www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/···tId=2650
Not a bad deal if you just want to fire the PC up without doing much work. Also being as vista is forking over $100 I want ahead and got the gateway. I could build her a PC but I need to learn vista cause I'm in school as a net tech so I got to learn vista like it or not. So by the time you count the parts and getting vista it was cheaper to get a refurbished PC then build a new PC. |
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Tehuno
join:2005-01-18
Bartlesville, OK | reply to Bes
the 460 should be fine then with just 2 total drives. |
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Bes
join:2006-01-24
Canada | reply to Tehuno
As of right now, I only have this one 320 gig SATA drive, and one CD drive. The only thing I plan to buy in the near future is a DVD burner, but that's not completely necessary right now. |
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Tehuno
join:2005-01-18
Bartlesville, OK
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Most reviews i found on that coolermaster were good, only bad reviews were DOA's, which are a total crapshoot lol. Try your best to avoid OC'ing your video card with it however, some people reported issues with OC'ing their video card with it, but it could have been a compatability issue.
The antec's reviews were all good, but most people reported it being really loud, so if youre going for quiet, avoid this PSU. My earthwatts 500 is really quiet, so im guessing there is some difference with the basiq model.
Before we give you a definite answer about your power needs, how many hard drives and optical drives(cd/dvd burners etc) are you going to be using? |
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TOPDAWG
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join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON
·TekSavvy Solutions..
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Yeah even sending it to my parents it's still a pain in the ass. They won't take a cdn CC so I have to use my old dept card account I had when I lived in the states.
Even sites who don't ship to Canada will take a cdn CC but newegg's system will refuse it. |
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Bes
join:2006-01-24
Canada
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It's a good thing you've heard some good things about Coolermaster, since they seem to be the cheaper PSU's. Although, that specific PSU in my setup just sold out, so I'm back to looking for another one, lol.
TOPDAWG:
That's not a bad idea. Too bad I don't personally know anyone who lives in the US.
Newegg should really consider changing their policy.
Anyway, I found a couple more PSU's that look decent.
What do you guys think of these:
»www.directcanada.com/products/?s···30AC7661
»www.canadacomputers.com/index.ph···d=PS.808
That first one is definitely cheaper. I know you guys told me that at least 500W would be good to support what I'm getting, but would 460 be OK? I'd only be OC'ing the CPU, and probably not by much. |
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TOPDAWG
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join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON
·TekSavvy Solutions..
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I hear ya on that. I get stuff I want from newegg sent to my parents house in the states and they just forward it to me here in Canada.
Not many good PC part sites in Canada you can ship from or they don't have much to offer. Tiger direct is about it. |
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SithraLazier
@co.uk | reply to SithraLazy
Ok someone already beat me to it, never mind  |
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SithraLazy
@co.uk
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said by rawwhide :I like the new AMD Phenom... A few pieces for under $400 [att=1] This isn't a bad price to get into a quad core system. You can upgrade other things later, like the motherboard. This particular one isn't good for OC'ing. The RAM is horrible unbranded stuff. Cheap RAM is NEVER worth the hassle, and the power supply is horrible. The one thing you should never save money on is the PSU. |
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Tehuno
join:2005-01-18
Bartlesville, OK
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500W power supplies are getting cheaper as more and more people use bigger PSU's for dual video cards etc, so a ~$50 500w PSU is not all that uncommon, unless youre going top of the line antec or thermaltake. Ive heard good things about coolermaster, so looks like you got a pretty solid setup overall. Hope you enjoy =) |
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Bes
join:2006-01-24
Canada
1 edit | reply to Bes
This is what I have in mind.
Oops, looks like that specific power supply just become unavailable. Haha, too bad. |
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Bes
join:2006-01-24
Canada
1 edit | reply to rawwhide
Oh, you didn't need to do any work at all. I had already checked those items on Direct Canada after you posted your subtotal from Newegg. It's an OK setup, don't get me wrong, but for just a bit cheaper, the stuff I have in mind will probably work better. But I'll still keep them in mind. Thanks for the work.
I'm also considering that same power supply. Still doing a lot of research on it, though. High wattage plus cheap price of under $50 CAN'T be as good as it looks. |
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