i love my new computer

i wasn't sure were a computer topic would go but the computer is a hobby of mine.

anyway i now know the difference between a normal computer and a gaming computer.

all my life i've had normal computers mostly media centers, none of them could play games that good. and then when i tried to play my ps2 games on my first vista it was hell on earth with that dual core media center. kh2 would crash randomly and was always slow as heck.

so i got my second media center vista with quad cores and tried to play kh2, it was slightly faster but it still crashed when it pleased. this happened the most on the gummi ship routes.

so when i picked up a low level gaming computer i was hesitant to try it again. but just now i decided to try it again, went to pcsx2 site and picked the newest version it was a beta. so i set it up popped the disk and hoped for the best but prepared for the worst. it took a few seconds to load but when it did i noticed the sound was crystal clear, and when i started up a new game it looked better then the ps2 and was just as fast.

in fact i'm already past disney castle and it hasn't crashed yet, i'm able to fight intense boss fights, and whole screens full of heartless at 40 to 50 fps if i'm lucky it gets up to 60 fps. in fact my cpu isn't even maxed out running this game and i'm still able to play music and surf the web at the same time.

i was originally only going to use the emu for codes but now i just might make it my second active ps2.

basicly if anyone plays a ton of games on their pc and wonders if a gaming machine makes a differnce. i can honestly say for once that 1,000$ *plus tax* and 2 months of debt i owed to my dad was more then worth it.

this thing even has a sub par graphics card, not even a gig of dedicated video memory and it performs this good. i can't wait till i can upgrade this thing and bring out it's true power.

 

wat kind of computer is it? a Windows based or a MAC?

 

windows, i've never owned a mac.

 

oh! i see, so what kind of Windows?

 

windows 7 64 bit

 

Nice!!!! ;)

 

lol .

 

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Hah!

 

I lol'd, not because you're trying to prove a point by playing a game that a phone can play but because you have a Mac.

 

Nice screenshot.

 

oh god Pika I lol'd.

But that's awesome. <: I'm a bit jealous, I have a lot of plans to upgrade my current machine but I haven't got the cash. Once I do though I might jump into the PC gaming world a bit more.

 

well mine was actually one of the cheaper models, that is compared to an alienware. but for one of the cheap ones to play kh2 on the emulator like it does on the ps2. well it does impress me at least. although i still can't play dragon age at even medium graphics but i've reaserch that game throughly and found it has to be something in that game alone, cause i could play half life 2 at max graphics at full speed.

any way to the rest of you please don't start a mac vs windows fight here, i'll admit i'm not on mac's fan list but that's not the point, i made this thread just to let everyone know how nice a gaming computer is for games.

 

Well imo Alienware is really overpriced, a lot of what you're paying for is brand name. You could build a PC of similar specs for much less, as far as I can tell. But I'm sure if you shove a higher end GFX card in there you'd probably be able to play Dragon Age.

 

yeah that's what i'm thinking, as far as the bioware forms is concerned my graphic's card is the minimum required to play the game, then if you look into it more you hear about memory burn, graphic's card failure, and other stuff like that. which i have experianced first hand at first i was able to play dragon age at medium without it crashing, then slowly it started to crash more and more to the point i could bearly play, and i had to finally put all my graphics, textures, and everything else on the lowest setting and turn off frame buffering just to play the game again.

so i think my graphics card has had some perment damage just from playing that game.

 

Yeah I mainly see two falls in gaming computers

1) What is needed for gaming increases just as fast as the technology does. Meaning to play the most recent games you need the most up to date hardware (or close to it)

2) Running things with that much power creates a lot of heat so pieces in gaming computers tend to break faster than normal.


I've had the money before to get a low end gaming machine but I don't want to do so until I have the abilty to maintain such a beast.

 

You're just jealous that my computer has a pretty apple on it, and yours doesn't. :p

 

They say when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I personally find this to be rather boring. When life handed Steve Jobs apples did he make apple juice? No. He made computers.

 

well this is coming from my own experiance with my own gaming computer, and my older one that sits next to it when it comes to heat. my set up is i have a huge tower of shelves [i'm not sure what it's actually called] and my computers are both in a small hole in this tower basicly boxed in, so when my computer\s are running it gets really hot in there. every so often i put my hand in the hole to test the heat level even more so when both are running. but when i have them running seperately i notice that my gaming computer seems to generate less heat then my older computer the vaio.

and i've had several high performance computers and never had to replace anything in them, and i am usually quite hard on my computers, the vaio knows this very well. i record my games on the vaio and prepare the clips on the vaio, usually when it is on you can hear i high pitched whine coming from it because the proceser is running at max for several hours even more so if i'm exporting a 20 minute video from gigapocket on it. but i've had about 7 or 8 computers so far and my first one would cook my room in our last house till the point i couldn't stand it anymore, but as i upgraded to newer models i've noticed the heat generated is less and less, my newest one is the coolest i've had yet.

but i think if people have to replace things on a new computer, it's probably because they are playing a game that is to much for the computer to handle, and that alienware i saw in best buy didn't seem to be generating any heat from what i could tell and it was running street fighter 4. i could be wrong about this but i see a lot of people with max graphics on every game. take this with a grain of salt though. :)

 

As long as you have the proper cooling components (whether it be in the form of fans or liquid cooling) you can grind/OC your computer without worrying too much as long as you're not OCing by too much. Yeah you'll have to replace your stuff eventually, but it's really not that bad.

 

i've never modifed my computers in any way my current one is stock, i don't even know how to do that stuff. i went to a private school the only thing they ever taught me was stuff i already knew, and i've never gone to college or special school about computers, the little i do know is all learned through trial and error.