Will this System Work? (iBuyPower PC)

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UrBanLegEND97

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Ok i know this forum isnt for this but could you please help?


Hey, im thinking of geting this comp
http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Gamer_Mage_D335 and im going to up the gfx card to a 6790.
And was wondering if i need to change anything else to play games like starcraft 2 (high would be fine)
and like dead space,and the comp says it can run starcraft 2 at ultra since my budget is like 800$ i would really appreciate if you guys could help me out, it would mean alot, thankx. :)
 
UrBanLegEND97 said:
Ok i know this forum isnt for this but could you please help?


Hey, im thinking of geting this comp
http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Gamer_Mage_D335 and im going to up the gfx card to a 6790.
And was wondering if i need to change anything else to play games like starcraft 2 (high would be fine)
and like dead space,and the comp says it can run starcraft 2 at ultra since my budget is like 800$ i would really appreciate if you guys could help me out, it would mean alot, thankx. :)
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Get at least a Quad Core or higher processor. And you should be good on the rest. 4 gig min....
 
I would recommend at least spending the extra $80 and get the X6 Core after thinking about it.
 
done quite a bit of research on this. iBUYPOWER is generally a bad deal in my opinion, at least ordering straight off of their site. they charge $75 for shipping (although you may be able to choose a popular PC with free shipping and downgrade/upgrade it) and are rumored to have terrible support and you have to pay them extra to do a good job. unless you pay them extra to do things like tie cables together (really?) and the like, you will get a PC delivered to you with things rattling around in there and you will have to tie the cables and stuff yourself. not hard but it baffles me that they don't just do that.

that is a high price to pay for those specs, especially considering all of the above. if you really want an ibuypower pc though, check this out, though unfortunately it is sold out: iBUYPOWER Gamer Power 567D3 Desktop PC Phenom II X4 925(2.8GHz) 4GB DDR3 1TB HDD Capacity ATI Radeon HD 5570 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit decent (still not great) for the price.

your best bet, which was suggested to me and now that i am more educated on it i strongly agree, is to keep your eyes open for deals on systems and upgrade the components. as an example you may be able to get a quad core i5 system with 6gb ram for around $500-$600 shipped and just upgrade the video card for a much better system at the same price point. and the best part would be better CS and better build quality, depending on the company of course.

good luck.
 
Its a great experience to buy and build yourself.

I do a lot of laptop/PC repair for friends and two weekends I just built my first whole machine.

Asus Mobo M4A785
AMD X6 1090 CPU
PowerColor 4830 ATi GPU
DDR2 PC6400 RAM - 12Gb
DVD-RW re-used from a year old HP machine that came to me with a blow power supply and fried Mobo
win7 - 64bit home premium 3 pack upgrade kit license
Rosewill Challenger Gaming case (included front, back and top fans with a bottom mounted PSU (purchased seperately), case also came with dust filters for fan openings)
Thermaltake PSC 500w 2 rails
WD Blue SSD - 64Gb for my OS - I pulled this SSD from a netbook I sold
WD 80Gb HDD - for use as my win7 built-in SSD back up drive
WD 1Tb Green drive - for my data and movie files local storage

*** She's fast (this 6 core CPU barely twitches unless I'm encoding a video), stable and been running great for 2 weeks now:D

If you price out my parts on www.newegg.com and www.tigerdirect.com and you live in the states (since you'll get free shipping) your build will be less than mine since no one ships to US military addresses for free that I've found on computer parts.

I would also venture to say that you'll be able to build this cheaper than that web site since RAM prices have fallen, along with all the other componets as I've been collecting my parts over the last ~4 months as I was deciding on what items for each category.

Good luck with your decision!
 
Im also a fan of building my own when it comes to PC Desktops. Although admittedly, I haven't needed one since 2003, but its still the way to go for power/dollar AFAIC.
 
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newegg sometimes has sales on bundles of all the parts necessary to build your own that would be cheaper then piecing it out part by part and that way you know it's all compatible and it arrives at the same time.

just some info if you decide to build your own.
 
I purchased a computer from ibuypower.com for my father. I will not make that mistake again. Higher charges for shipping than shown on the site, shipped weeks after promised, sound card crapped out and the service was almost non-existant. Tech support at ibuypower was very adept at pretending that they could not understand English. I think my dad finally replaced the sound card himself.

If you want a custom Windows box, either build it yourself or go to a local computer shop. With a local shop, at least you can go to them if you have problems, and probably won't have to learn Chinese to explain the problem.
 
Archlord said:
...and that way you know it's all compatible and it arrives at the same time.

just some info if you decide to build your own.
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...this is only partially true, you will have it all arrive at the same time but Newegg states in their fine print that they don't "100% say" everything's compatible in the "bundled kit".

Just an FYSA...
 
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