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29th Oct 2013 at 11:17 PM
Help picking out a Desktop (yes another one of those)
Yes another one of these, I'm very sorry. However I feel it's appropriate and would greatly appreciate any advice/help. My friend is a bro and is also helping me, but I thought it would be a good idea to specifically ask simmers for suggestions due to the sensitive nature of the sims.
It's finally time to replace my desktop, currently this:
http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/si...ette.cachetoken with a GeForce 9500 GT installed. It's been steadily falling into despair over the past year or so and I gave up on playing TS3, which I miss greatly. Besides that, many of my computer functions are just gradually failing, so I definitely need to replace and not upgrade my computer.
I live in the US as a home-business owner, with only decent knowledge of computers. I can not build my own, although I may be able to do some minor assembly. My budget will be around 1.5kish, I technically have a budget of 2k but I don't really want to spend that much. I have monitors, a keyboard and mouse already. My monitors:
http://www.amazon.com/HP-2010i-20-I...eywords=hp2010i I plan to purchase W7 for my system regardless, so that doesn't need to be included in the budget either.
My goal is to play TS3 with all expansions and much CC installed at good graphic settings with high FPS. My current FPS on my current build is anywhere from 8-15 iirc. I also would like to play other games, such as Bioshock Infinite, The Sims 4, Batman, etc. I would also like to do video capture if possible within the budget (the last one isn't required if it's not possible, I assume I could upgrade later for that). I use my computer for other normal things such as photo editing, internet, etc.
I'm planning to wait for Black Friday in hopes of snagging a good deal on my build.
Thank you anyone for your help, I appreciate it.