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[BradAnderson]

SO Laptop dead fuck knows how and tbh i'm tired of it, i'm considering investing in a desktop PC as i dont want another laptop burning a giant hole in my desk when i'm downloading. I recently found a desktop that caught my fancy, its refurbished and here's the Item: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/102565#productInformationSection

I'm no computer genius as everyone knows i could do with a little community help, PLEASE PIMP MY PC EIR!!!!!!!

[wildfire444]

doesn't say what type of graphics card 

what's your budget? could always build your own system it's just like legos/lincoln logs. or if you aren't comfortable with that, just buy the parts then bring them into a PC store and have them put it together for like $50.

[BradAnderson]

doesn't say what type of graphics card 

what's your budget? could always build your own system it's just like legos/lincoln logs. or if you aren't comfortable with that, just buy the parts then bring them into a PC store and have them put it together for like $50.

Whatever just looking for a basic gaming pc that will last me longer than a year...

[BradAnderson]

Graphics Memory     256 MB     
Graphics Description    AMD ATI

[Days of War]

My PC runs Crysis on the highest settings with 4xAA on 1280x1024 fine, and only cost me $650ish, including the DeathAdder mouse. I'm pretty sure it'd probably cost around $450 now. Just buy the parts and have it put together, you'll get much more out of it.

[Mysthalin_Armor]

a 256 MB vidcard isn't going to be a good one.
Take a 750 W power supply, a decent mobo, the same processor and RAM, then pop in an HD 3850/3870 or 4850/4870 from the ATIs, or a 8800 GT/9800 GT from the nVidias, and you got yourself a beast.

[wildfire444]

750w power supply is way overkill...most machines will run fine on a (good brand name) 550w psu.

[Mysthalin]

not if he intends to have modability for the future, or if he buys a CODEGEN case+PSU(to save money).
Then he'd need a 750W.

[BradAnderson]

a 256 MB vidcard isn't going to be a good one.
Take a 750 W power supply, a decent mobo, the same processor and RAM, then pop in an HD 3850/3870 or 4850/4870 from the ATIs, or a 8800 GT/9800 GT from the nVidias, and you got yourself a beast.

can you repost that in dummed down terms and maybe gimmie some links?

[BradAnderson]

And what would u guys say about this? cause with exchange rate i can get it at   686.76GBP and at a further 50% off cause of a family contact...

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11334819&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&eCat=BC|84|56671|78518&N=4035033&Mo=36&pos=3&No=17&ViewAll=37&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&cat=78518&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C&ec=BC-EC10600-Cat56671&topnav=

[Mysthalin]

that's a lot better, but...
That's a server, not a PC.
8 GB of RAM.
Gaming Rigs have 4 GBs of RAM as more than enough, and a more high-end vidcard than a 9600 GT.
Though, with that kind of price on it...
Buy it, then change the video card into a 9800 GT/GTX.