Witcher 2 I believe is usually at like 75% off during their big sales. Don't quote me on that I just know that I got it cheaper than the 9.99 . So if you can hold off you will save a few dollars.
I'm currently playing it right now and though I'm able to play with most everything on high because I upgraded my GC in 2011 I'm starting to feel the stretch of the core of my 2008 PC.
At times I can here the HDD really working hard and my 4GB of RAM are barely enough when I try to Alt-Tab and such joyous thing (takes a good long time to relocate memory to browser and desktop).
I think I may have to upgrade around the end of the year.
Yeah Witcher 2 is a pretty demanding game. If your looking for a good cpu that is not a I7 go with the I5 3570 k hell of a cpu.
I'll do some research once I'm ready to upgrade. Right now I have:
Mother Board: Gigabyte EP35-DS3L
Processor: Intel Wolfdale e8400
Video Card: MSI R6850 1GB VRAM Cyclone PE
PSU: Corsair HX620W
RAM: G.Skill 2x2Gb DDR2 800
HDD: Samsung F1 750GB
I need the power so Mac isn't an option. BTW funny thing--take a look at their description for the Mac Pro, it's so out of date it's hilarious.
I will always like Starcraft, I'm fine with them having the 3 parts, the single player is just fine, but I'm a bit disappointed they are hardly doing any changes to multiplayer, they had shown a several new units which wasn't much in the first place and then cut it back from there.
Yeah def looks like its time for an upgrade! I had way worse specs than you before I just upgraded. Running only 2gb of ram, dual core amd 6400+ I believe? Still had a 8800 gt as well in their It was like night and day when I upgraded.
i remember the old days when i was still young and stupid custom built those monster computers with expensive lian li cases, special cooling fans that looked like from the matrix movie set and giant power supply etc.. for bragging rights. Spending hours figuring out the jumpers and clock speed/ratio settings (back then the motherboards are nowhere as easy to setup as nowadays, you need to set all that **** up manually). The thing sure is powerful but also sounded like a vacuum with led lights and wires going all over the place.
But as i get older my taste changed, now i just have a 27" iMac with a single wire to the wall socket. Big beautiful screen, super quiet, and very clean to look at. The funny thing most people dont realize is it's also a pretty powerful gaming rig, it's a miracle of engineering done by apple - to fit a 2gb geforce gtx 675mx chip, i7 cpu and ssd all inside the monitor. I can run any game on it at max setting without issues in windows 7 mode, yet do all my other work using the much more elegant mac osx without ever having to deal with microsoft crap or virus. Not to mention fully synced with my iphone and ipad. Sure the game may have 35 fps at max setting vs 50 fps from a custom pc but who really cares, it made very little difference in the real world once you go above 25 fps.
Cant imagine myself ever going back to the old days of those giant pc boom boxes that can also substitute as a heater in the winter.
Haha I used to have a 8800GTS as well but it dies on me so I had to change it to the ATI 6850 in March 2011. That really helped stretch my build's life. But I can feel the HDD and RAM need some help. Plus I could use a good format!
I still have my LianLi case
While I agree with you that Mac can run games no problems mostly with Parallels or Bootcamp the problem is that for the price of a Mac I could build either a monstrous PC or 2 very decent ones. I've often debated switching to mac but it's the price that kills me and I like tweaking stuff, I feel the Mac is very counter-intuitive at times.
Getting Heart of the Swarm when it drops? I can't wait! I didn't preorder the collectors edition, but if Bestbuy has it I'll probably pick it up. Thats what I did with the first one.I need the power so Mac isn't an option. BTW funny thing--take a look at their description for the Mac Pro, it's so out of date it's hilarious.
I will always like Starcraft, I'm fine with them having the 3 parts, the single player is just fine, but I'm a bit disappointed they are hardly doing any changes to multiplayer, they had shown a several new units which wasn't much in the first place and then cut it back from there.
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