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  Shadow2Soul Posts: 1,628 Member

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  Out of the choices:
  Asus
  -dedicated graphics (low end, but you can upgrade that at a later date)
  -more ram
  
  Either one your going to want to upgrade the graphics. You can get a decent graphics card for about $120 and you'll probably need a better PSU as well which you can get for under $100.
  
  Or if you can afford to spend a little more:
  
  ....
  
  well all the computers I was going to suggest have apparently sold out. >.<
  
  my suggestion watch walmart.com. Here's why:
  
  recently they had the following gaming computers (sold out currently):
  
  -$625
  *AMD FX-6300
  *8GB DDR3-1333 Gaming Grade Memory Module
  *1TB 7200RPM Hard Disk Drive
  *AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
  
  -$685
  *AMD FX-8120
  *8GB DDR3-1333 Gaming Grade Memory Module
  *1TB 7200RPM Hard Disk Drive
  *AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
  
  -$840
  *Intel Core i5-3570K
  *16GB G.Skill Ripjaws
  *1TB 7200RPM Hard Disk
  *NVIDIA GeForce GTX650 2GB GDDR5
  
  The prices are accurate from the old listings (I copied and pasted from a post I did a few days ago). Now back in august this is what I got for $1099:
  
  -i7-3770 with liquid cooling
  -16GB RAM
  -2TB Hard Drive
  -GTX 560 superclocked
  
  edit: hehe, forgot to check Newegg.com So here are some recommendations from them:
  
  $649 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227443
  Intel Core i5 3350P(3.10GHz)
  8GB DDR3 500GB HDD Capacity
  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1GB
  
  $599 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229332
  Intel Core i5 3570k(3.40GHz)
  8GB DDR3 1TB HDD Capacity
  AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB PCI-e Graphics
  
  

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  Michael702808 Posts: 162 New Member

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  Thank you Ill look into some of the suggestions.

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  Michael702808 Posts: 162 New Member

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  Shadow2Soul wrote:

  Either one your going to want to upgrade the graphics. You can get a decent graphics card for about $120 and you'll probably need a better PSU as well which you can get for under $100.

  I want to upgrade my graphics card but I have a HP Pavilion Slimline and someone told me since its a Slimline most graphics cards wont fit into my tower

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  bob007 Posts: 10,062 Member

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  Slimline cases most often have a custom power supply which can not be upgraded and IF the motherboard has a video slot most often will only take a low profile video card which are often poor gaming cards.
  
  Both the computers you list have integrated graphics and while might (and I really stress might) run TS3, how well remains to be seen (this is a hint that you probably won't be satisfied). I wouldn't buy paper clips from that big box store as Myself and many, many others have had problems (well that's an understatement) with after the sales service. Last I heard they were having financial problems. It's kind of looking like they may go the same way as Circuit City. I only deal with vendors that will be around for a while.
  
  Some slimline motherboards can be transplanted into a tower case. IDK - we would need the whole model number to look up which motherboard was used.

  I do not work for EA nor do I have any association with EA. I am a gamer helping other gamers.

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