Since the slim might pose problems with future upgrading, I went through techbargains.com for another, non-slim model that came out to pretty much the same more or less, for about the same price with the coupons and such. Unfortunately after ordering I realized it's actually listed as a mini-tower in the end, which may give many of the same problems. But oh well, fuck it, at this point I care not. Cheap computer! That I shouldn't have to worry about falling apart around me!
Anyhow, thanks a ton for the various inputs, guys. I really appreciate everyone commenting... for a purchase of this type, I really want all the input I can get. :/ Really, I mean it, I love you all! In non-physical ways.
1 Inspiron 546 Minitower w/ Black Bezel
1 AMD Athlon? II X2 215 (2.7GHz, 1MB)
1 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 4 DIMMs
1 Dell Consumer Entry USB Keyboard and Mouse
1 No Monitor
1 ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB
1 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
1 Piano Black
1 No Floppy Drive or Media Card Reader Included
1 Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
1 Mouse included with Keyboard purchase
1 Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
1 No Modem Option
1 Adobe® Reader 9.0
1 16X DVD+/-RW Drive
1 Integrated 5.1 Channel Audio
1 Dell AX210 1.2 Watt 2.0 Stereo Speakers
1 Microsoft® Works 9
1 McAfee SecurityCenter, 15-Months
1 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
1 Wild Tangent Games
Anyhow, thanks a ton for the various inputs, guys. I really appreciate everyone commenting... for a purchase of this type, I really want all the input I can get. :/ Really, I mean it, I love you all! In non-physical ways.
1 Inspiron 546 Minitower w/ Black Bezel
1 AMD Athlon? II X2 215 (2.7GHz, 1MB)
1 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 4 DIMMs
1 Dell Consumer Entry USB Keyboard and Mouse
1 No Monitor
1 ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB
1 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
1 Piano Black
1 No Floppy Drive or Media Card Reader Included
1 Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
1 Mouse included with Keyboard purchase
1 Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
1 No Modem Option
1 Adobe® Reader 9.0
1 16X DVD+/-RW Drive
1 Integrated 5.1 Channel Audio
1 Dell AX210 1.2 Watt 2.0 Stereo Speakers
1 Microsoft® Works 9
1 McAfee SecurityCenter, 15-Months
1 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
1 Wild Tangent Games
- Currently Feeling::
nervous
Comments
I built a similar rig but a couple steps higher performance for about $400 so if it's more than that, you might want to re-consider.
So the windows 7 license you get with yours makes it worthwhile.
(oh and the commenter in your other post saying the 4350 is a 'slow' video card is wrong. It's not slow, it's average. PC nuts use the word slow too liberally. )
I am running a 4850 and I get 60 fps on Crysis at 1440x900 with everything set to High. With everything set to the absolute max I got at least 30 fps.
Oblivion is an incredibly old tired engine and while I haven't played it on my 4850 I have played Fallout 3 on this rig. It's the same engine but beefed up, and it runs at well over 60 FPS with everything maxed out.
Now, I have a better CPU than storm's post pointed to, I have an X2 7850 Black edition.
But that doesn't change the fact that the 4850 is an upper end card that has not failed to give high framerate on high settings on every single game I have ever thrown at it, including Far Cry 2, Red Faction Guerrilla, Batman Arkham Asylum, Operation FlashPoint Dragon Rising, Call of Juarez 2, and pretty much everything else that came out this year.
99% of PC games are console ports. True.
We should get used to it. Eventually they won't even bother making PC ports. No money in it. It's all money.
And as my previous comment said, I got all fired up because I misread your message due to my retarded mail client. Apologies.
Sorry. I very heroically mis-read you. My bad.
And is this a rhetorical question? ;)
It'll probably even do Sims pretty well, although I'm not up on the specs of that or any other recent god game. I've been sticking to combat/shooter/carnage games, MMOs, and (oddly enough) brain-crack fiddly puzzle games like World of Goo...