is this a good comp?

ukitake77 · November 2011

PROCESSOR 2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 Processor (3.4GHz, 8MB Cache) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows(R) 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit (English) edit
WARRANTY & SERVICE 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis edit
ESSENTIAL HELP Onsite help in your home, by Gizmo (1 visit) edit
SECURITY SOFTWARE McAfee® SecurityCenter™ (Multi-Language) - 15 Months edit
MONITOR DELL ST2420L 24"W HD Monitor with WLED edit
MEMORY 8GB (4X2GB) DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz Memory edit
HARD DRIVE 2TB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive with Native Command Queuing edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Single Drive:16X DVD+/-RW with Dual Layer Write edit
VIDEO CARD 1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GT 545 edit
SOUND CARD Integrated high definition 7.1 channel audio edit

can it play games like bf3 well??

DatMuffin · November 2011

Absolutely dreadful, don't even attempt to play BF3 on that you won't get over 10 frames.

You need at least 6 cores to play battlefield 3 so look for a pc with an AMD Phenom II x6 or better.

DatMuffin · November 2011

Since I'm a nice guy though, I will say this. In all honestly as long as the processor is decent it doesn't make a difference. Use a core2 quad and switch to an i7 with the same base specs and the frame difference would be 2-3 frames.

And that PC definitely needs a different card, look for something more along the lines of an i5 or AMD 6 core (yeah Cookz...) With a better graphics card.

OwnageSkillz · November 2011

You can't go wrong with a 2600.

Dacbietelite · November 2011

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

your processor is better than the amd phenom II 6 core. Your processor is fine it's actually really good.

Yeah you'r going to want to upgrade that graphics card though.

benchmarks:

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Oh and you should exchange mcafee for something. Mcafee really sucks if you want to play games, random scans even if you turn it off, and it will lag your computer. Try to get a different antivirus

ukitake77 · November 2011

Dacbietelite wrote: »

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

your processor is better than the amd phenom II 6 core. Your processor is fine it's actually really good.

Yeah you'r going to want to upgrade that graphics card though.

benchmarks:

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Oh and you should exchange mcafee for something. Mcafee really sucks if you want to play games, random scans even if you turn it off, and it will lag your computer. Try to get a different antivirus

is this better? can i play bf3 fine now?
1.25GB GDDR5 NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 560 Ti

Dacbietelite · November 2011

yeah that should be good

Fizzx · November 2011

well I was able to play BF3 open beta with 60fps and i got 2.1 ghz tri-core so basicly you got no problems (had "pretty" low settings xDD)

74K37H47 · November 2011

an GTX 460 can runh BF3 on medium settings at 50 fps i think.
But i'd recommend you a HD6970 (just OC it a little to turn it into an HD 6990) to run it at 60 fps smoothly at high settings :]

ukitake77 · November 2011

http://configure.ap.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=u210807au&c=au&l=en&s=dhs&cs=audhs1&model_id=xps-8300&
now, tell me what you think of it.

if the link works

Dacbietelite · November 2011

dell is overpriced, try finding one somewhere else or a different brand. If you can build one that would be even better.

is this a good comp?

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