   | Member with 50 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Experience: Intermediate | | Buying a new PC... advice? I'm buying a new PC... want to try and stay at $600 max. I'm currently looking for a quad core system with plenty of memory, supermulti drive, nice amount of USB ports, card reader, room for a second hard drive, etc...
I do a lot of multitasking; Firefox with around 30 tabs open and quite a few extensions, Digsby, Songbird, Dropbox, and ObjectDock are always running. VLC, Photoshop, MS Word, uTorrent, few others are also run quite often. Occasionally ACID. This was why I was going for a quad core... should I maybe consider a dual core instead?
Basically I really like this system, or something like it: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...374299&CatId=6
One catch: I want to play Sims 3 and want it to run smoothly on at least medium settings. This is pretty much the only game I will be playing, so I don't want to spend money on a gaming pc that lacks the processor or memory I want simply for a graphics card, and I don't want to upgrade my graphics card if I don't have to. Can I get away with onboard graphics?
Advice? |  | Senior Member with 617 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Experience: Intermediate | | | |  | Distinguished Member with 6,086 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 1969 Location: Varkaus/Finland/Northern EU Experience: Been THERE, done THAT ;E | | You can get away with onboard graphics, but not with medium settings probably. Corsair 400CX + HIS IceQ Radeon 4670 are a good combo for factory-built PC graphics upgrades. |  | Distinguished Member with 4,759 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Dallas Experience: Advanced | | Agreed with BG-0. Thats not a bad price for a Quad Core system. That PSU & GPU he stated are about $110~120... And its that particular 4670 GPU that you should be getting. Its quiet and sucks the heat out of the case.
Make sure you DL the latest drivers from ATI, don't bother with whats on the the CD.
PS; Give Opera10 a try... excellent tab management.
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PC Wizard System Info on Hardware & temperatures. AVG AntiVirus & ZoneAlarm Firewall. Try the Opera 10 Web Browser today! Easier, Safer & Cleaner interface; unlike IE 8! | | | Distinguished Member with 6,086 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 1969 Location: Varkaus/Finland/Northern EU Experience: Been THERE, done THAT ;E | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Compiler  PS; Give Opera10 a try... excellent tab management. | Is there anything new actually in the tab management except for the fancier looking tab icons in the top row? | | | Distinguished Member with 4,759 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Dallas Experience: Advanced | | They work a bit better, the overall browser is nice. Spell checking finally added. Site compatibility is far better. Its faster and just a joy to use. Since its still beta, it has some tiny glitches here and there... still, I'm not going back to 9 (which was my main browser - I don't like IE 7/8 - they are a mess).
I'm on a newer build of Opera10 that what you can DL. Those in using Beta for a while get "snapshot" builds.
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PC Wizard System Info on Hardware & temperatures. AVG AntiVirus & ZoneAlarm Firewall. Try the Opera 10 Web Browser today! Easier, Safer & Cleaner interface; unlike IE 8! |  | Distinguished Member with 6,573 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Roseburg, OR Experience: advanced intermediate beg | | Personally I would not be interested in a Refurbished Gateway Computer. | | | Senior Member with 617 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Experience: Intermediate | | I just use firefox. Their tabs have been perfect for ages and their site compatability is great. | | | Distinguished Member with 6,086 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 1969 Location: Varkaus/Finland/Northern EU Experience: Been THERE, done THAT ;E | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jack-o-bytes I just use firefox. Their tabs have been perfect for ages and their site compatability is great. | The tabs are totally not perfect for any kind of power user. Ctrl-tabbing all the way through 16 tabs is not in any manner convenient. If you like clicking the tabs, sure why not, but they're just awful IMO. | | | Senior Member with 617 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Experience: Intermediate |
05-Jul-2009, 04:57 AM
#10 | Well I find them fine also Google Chrome has no where near as many features and hardly any available ad-ons compared to firefox. | | | Distinguished Member with 6,086 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 1969 Location: Varkaus/Finland/Northern EU Experience: Been THERE, done THAT ;E |
05-Jul-2009, 06:02 AM
#11 | Who was talking about Chrome? | | | Senior Member with 617 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Experience: Intermediate |
05-Jul-2009, 06:39 AM
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05-Jul-2009, 08:20 AM
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