The PC Builder's Guide

[Xyvik]

Bad strongcoffee, bad! Best Buy is the enemy of the true Geeks and almost evil incarnate. Also the link came up dead for me.

I almost never recommend laptops for gaming. Yes, yes I know they're way better than they used to be, but a case that small has no right having gaming components in it with such poor airflow.

If you must have a laptop, there are many good choices available from Amazon and Newegg. Take a look around there.

[StrongCoffee]

Bad strongcoffee, bad! Best Buy is the enemy of the true Geeks and almost evil incarnate. Also the link came up dead for me.

Whoa, now THATS though love. If you own a dog, I dont envy his life.

But that was a good (and fun, you get cookie for that) to open my eyes to the awfull truth. That PC was even lamer than my actual machine. The good thing I can sell my actual machine for 500 bucks in my own country ( theres a game with the dollar value. Stuff here usually cost the double as the prices in USA), so Im thinking in this little shinny gem. Thoughts?

http://www.amazon.com/Gateway-NV5302.../dp/B0031FO27S

[Xyvik]

Whoa, now THATS though love. If you own a dog, I dont envy his life.

I don't, so no worries

But that was a good (and fun, you get cookie for that) to open my eyes to the awfull truth.

I do my best! And I like cookies!

http://www.amazon.com/Gateway-NV5302.../dp/B0031FO27S

I've had pretty good success with Gateway laptops in the past (two of my five laptops have been Gateways and they've always ran pretty well). It looks pretty good. It won't be a monster gaming laptop but it should run things. I don't have any personal experience with that particular machine or any of its particular components, although my laptops have always been mobile AMD/ATi (I stick by my guns when it comes to them, hehe) so you should be in pretty good company.

[Gradius]

Too bad that NVidia's new 400 series cards suck for the price/performance. I have an nforce motherboard but will probably end up buying a radeon. =/

Also, remember guys, here is the link for 1080p benchmarks for video cards: http://www.legionhardware.com/articl...ormance,4.html

This 80 dollar card will more than max out SC2 at 1080p: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-535-_-Product

[PhanttoM]

Too bad that NVidia's new 400 series cards suck for the price/performance. I have an nforce motherboard but will probably end up buying a radeon. =/

Yes indeed, awkward amount of RAM as well.
On the other hand, only the 470 and 480 are released so far.

Personally I never touch the first batch hardware of any brand, so I'll be waiting a while before considering a new GPU.

Right now one of those full HD, 200Hz, 30+ inch monitors/TV is my next purchase plan.

[Xyvik]

Too bad that NVidia's new 400 series cards suck for the price/performance. I have an nforce motherboard but will probably end up buying a radeon. =/

Also, remember guys, here is the link for 1080p benchmarks for video cards: http://www.legionhardware.com/articl...ormance,4.html

This 80 dollar card will more than max out SC2 at 1080p: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-535-_-Product

My experiences and personal benchmarks have not entirely meshed with LegionHardwares. Not to say that they are completely wrong, but in that price point I've had way more success with THIS $80 card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-319-_-Product

Plus, the 5670 has awesome power consumption/heat numbers and is fully DX11. That'll save you from having to upgrade your card to handle the new shiny DX11 games.

But the 9800 does indeed do pretty dang good for its price range.

And yeah, the new nForce (and Fermi) have been pretty big failures for nVidia. It's a pity.

[spychi]

Well, thank you for the news! Actually that was some really usefull information. He, I could ask you how to install some damn games I downloaded some days ago via torrent. All the cracking is killing me, even if its to play Chaos Rising.

Cheers

you actually steal games?

I am very proud of myself since buying windows 7 because with that day everything on my HDD is legal, previously only the OS was pirated but now I have everything, litterly everything bought in a legal way

[screw_ball69]

you actually steal games?

I am very proud of myself since buying windows 7 because with that day everything on my HDD is legal, previously only the OS was pirated but now I have everything, litterly everything bought in a legal way

I wouldst be surprised if a large population of this board were pirates.

[spychi]

I wouldst be surprised if a large population of this board were pirates.

[screw_ball69]

*sigh* i get far to much joy from that song.