Need Advice On Buying A Computer. ( That Will Run

Ok, with a little bit of homework, you can spare yourself a headache.

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Find a boxed PC with the same (pref higher) numbers than the above and you're ready to go.

This sounds like the best bet for me. could I walk into best buy, for example, and walk out with everything I needed, or am I going to have to go to a couple different places?

That or you could order them online, which I'm fairly sure is much cheaper.

Awesome, thank you. Lol at plastic cup.

But dude you still have $997,500 to spend???? there has to be something better out there than those two?
Im talking about the secret secret ***here the stuff they don't want you to know about think Star Trek or Hal 9000 from 2001 a space odyssey ( but I don't want mine to go nutts and try and kill me )

If you whent to bestbuy you could walk out with all the stuff in one place yah, but even thoug I work thier I buy my graphics cards and computer parts cheeper from newegg. The computer itself is cheeper at bestbuy

I would really suggest building your own... People aren't joking when they say its REALLY easy. I built one last year that pwns 11 and the hardest thing was connecting/sorting the case wiring to the motherboard.

That being said if that's a bit too intimidating for you you can buy processor/motherboard/case combos already installed. so all you have to do is get the rest. I would seriously recommend going this route as if you're already playing on a PC, you can reuse (and save money on) the existing hard drive, DVD player, and power supply (maybe).

Seriously its easier than you'd think.

A lot of the plugs/sockets are colour coded (orange plug goes into orange slot, etc).

For practice, tear open your old pc, then you can see how things look.

Thanks all, I think I am on the right track, maybe I'll see some of you in-game. :)

But what about my laptop :(

Building isn't hard. Don't be scared of being a little rough either. not nuts, but components have a habit of being stiff.

Laptop

:P

Accurate depiction of Alienware.

welp basically if you go to there site and go to customise and everything on that is expencive thats the 1 lol

Can this be beaten ?


Alienware M17x MLK Gaming Laptop - Space Black edit
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 940XM (2.13 Ghz, 8MB, 4C) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English edit
SERVICES AND SUPPORT 3Yr Next Day Hardware Support edit
ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE SUPPORT No Accidental Damage Support edit
GRAPHICS CARD CrossFire™ Dual 1GB ATI® Mobility Radeon™ HD 5870 edit
MEMORY 8192MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x4096] edit
HARD DRIVE 512GB Solid State Drive Raid 0 "Stripe" Dual HDD - (2x256GB) edit
LCD 43cm (17") Wide UXGA (1920x1200) - Beyond HD (1200p) RGBLED edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Internal Blu-Ray RW (Blu-Ray, DVD and CD read & WRITE) Optical Drive with Software edit
BLUETOOTH Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Module - Europe edit
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Intel® Wireless LAN 6300 3x3 802.11a/b/g/n card (EUR) edit
PRIMARY BATTERY 9-cell 85Whr Lithium Ion battery edit
SECURITY SOFTWARE No Antivirus Software edit

Pretty much this.

I'm not an Alienware fan, it tends to be cheapish hardware that you spend WAY too much on.

I like it does it come in Blue?

Also do you think I would get 8000+ on the ff14 benchmark on that sweet baby?

if you are looking for the best price on a computer go to www.pricewatch.com that place is awesome for finding the perfect price for anything "computer wise" you need :)..and as far as being able to play ffxiv you don't really need the best of the best..but a moderate computer at least a dual core processor and a decent video card 512mb ram at least ati hd series..and you should be good

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=2186879
Enjoy.

I think Im just gonna get one of these bad boys






Most Expensive Laptop (Cost: $1 million)





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Luvaglio Laptop
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But it's a laptop, so it's no more use to me than an expesive beer coaster. I don't do laptops.

*** it I'm gonna go mac

I just bought a sick laptop for school that can run games pretty decently actually, only cost like $1000, but that includes OS and office! The laptop itself cost about $850 CAN, after tax.

http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/samsung-samsung-15-6-intel-core-i3-330m-2-13ghz-laptop-r580-red-r580/10142387.aspx?path=31958a11bf325a2f902131cbcaca10f9en02

It is simply awesome! A humongous bang for your buck. I dunno if I'll be able to play any MMO's during the school year but I'll benchmark FFXIV on this laptop for you guys that are interested.

Might as well take it back if you've had it less than 30days lol :p

I hope you're not one of those people that plays games on their laptops in bed, causing it to overheat, then wonder why it's broken.

Contrasting the hundred idiots in this thread.


This laptop got me a 2500 with no upgrades, and it costs less than 700 dollars.

It's not the best laptop ever but it's definitely enough to play FFXIV on high settings, as well as any other game you ever want to play.

what did you expect?

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M is not an old GPU.

that is about the right score for that GPU

i'd suggest

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114936

as far as bang for the buck and easily running XIV go

Um, no I'm not bed is sleeping not gaming... and I'm pretty sure i said it was for school.
Just because you're one of those people who like to build their own computers doesn't mean you know everything ;o