General computer talk/advice

I got a HP Pavillion for my birthday last June.
Its reasonably fast (in my signature) and thin (less than 2 cm) and its very well built. It was £500 however but still a great laptop for the price.

 

I want to ask a question again, is this a good build gaming PC?
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/67T3vK
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1758476
(in this web there is no video card, i need suggestion. Thanks)

I have a new budget that's $700
Sorry for disturb

Thank you

 

If your budget is $700, why did you build a $550 PC? I improved your build with a much better CPU, and you still have $100 for a monitor:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Ht3MrH

 

Hehehe, i want to save a little bit money
But its ok.

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Is this better than you suggested before to me?

 

Much better.

 

$100 for a monitor? I don't know about you but for the equivalent money in the UK, you'd just about get a 19" 1366x768 monitor. I would scrimp a little on the parts and get a better monitor, preferably 1080p. I've used 720p for the last 4 years until Christmas, then I got a 1080p monitor and I tell you, I can never go back.

 

I'd rather have a 1366x768 monitor and a 4590 than a 1080p monitor and an fx-8320

 

@laptop discussion. At my school, the tech guy who teaches technology and Adobe has a Dell Precision M6500 in his room, and I use it almost daily to edit in Premiere. The thing is huge, fast, and just I WANT IT ALL.

 

Is i5 4590 + gtx 970 combination makes a great FPS in a lot of game?

 

american prices tend to be way lower then literally everywhere else in the world (i've discovered this when making pc builds on pcpartpicker for people in other countries and continents, prices always seem to be absolutley ridiculous compared to the prices for americans)

you can definitely get a 1080p monitor for around $99+ here

 

Except Kinect isn't American

 

In the UK we have 20% tax on new purchases. So that is why things are often 20% more expensive over here. But then there are compainies that take the piss too and sell products for $100(£64) in the US and £100 ($153) in the UK which is just insane.

 

Every tech item I have found is usually at least 50% more expensive here than US.
Computer parts prices are a straight swap from putting a$on the label to a£instead most of the time, not remotely fair.

 

My FINAL question (not really)
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Kinect/saved/rCWj4D
or
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Kinect/saved/2XB7YJ

 

I'm new to this game and i love it a lot, but my laptop is a 5 year old samsung, i have a whole lot of lag even with all the graphics turned down. what laptop mods are there that can help, btw i know nothing about upgrading laptops or where to start. thanks!

 

Not much you can do other than getting a new gaming laptop or desktop.

 

The second one is better, but I would make a few changes: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xsrBWZ

That's what I came up with.

You don't need an SLI MOBO, especially when you are using an AMD card. I also used a Z87 MOBO, you can get a Z97 if you wish, but there is no real difference performance wise.
The CPU cooler is optional and could be swapped out for a better graphics card if you wish, especially since you are not overclocking.
The graphics card is more powerful than the 270 and the 280, even though it has less VRAM than the 280.
Hope this helps

On second thought, for the 2nd one you don't need a Zxx series MOBO, because it is a non-overclocking processor. If you want to upgrade to a over-clockable chip in the future, then the old one still stands, if not however then this might take your interest: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/YyrBWZ

 

Laptops if you are lucky have replaceable hard drives, optical drives, ram and wireless cards.

Optical drive. Makes no performance difference, only real point to changing that is so you can burn DVDs or watch blu rays on a machine that didn't support that from factory.

Ram. As long as you have enough in the first place, no performance difference. Adding more does nothing.

Hard drive.only changes how much data you can store and how quickly it can load that data. No change to game performance except loading screens taking less time on a faster drive.

Wireless. No difference to beamng.







Beamng needs a good GPU and a good CPU, neither of which are upgradeable in a laptop.


Kh and the manufacturer (Samsung) tells you nothing about the spec.

 

You can just download some more RAM if you need it anyway

 

I might buy an MSI GTX 970 instead of the G1. I don't have to buy a new case, which saves me some money to buy a better laptop. I've decided to sell my ps3 and buy a Thinkpad T series with the money, since they're the most reliable and reliability is the first thing I want on a laptop. I still want to keep some money for the Steam summer sale... and I still need (and want) to change my phone.