[Darxidium]

So I wake up and go downstairs and I notice my dad must have purchased a new PC. Long story short, I don`t know what any the specs mean, but here they are in the format I found them:

Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67 GHz 2.73 GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 4.00 GB
System type: 64-bit Operating System

EDIT: Obviously, I`d like to know `how good` this computer is.

[Solash]

To answer that question I'd need to know the price he bought it for and for what use is this computer going to be used.

[Darxidium]

Primarily a gaming computer.

IIRC, the price is somewhere in the range of $1300-$1600.

[SSJ3 Mario Brothers]

Processor is good. Graphics card is what you need to know.


But Goddamn, unless that has like a 5970 (best graphics card out), or the price included a monitor, it's definitely overpriced.

I would assume it has Windows 7 on it, open the start menu and right click on "Computer" and go to properties. Click "Windows Experience Index" and then on the right, click "View detailed performance and system information." Tell me what it says under each category.

[i_am_samus]

WAYYY overpriced. *works at best buy*

Should be worth less than half that price

[Darxidium]

Don't have much time right now, but I now know the video card is a GeForce GTX 260.

[SSJ3 Mario Brothers]

Yeah, like IAS said, that's worth less than half that price.


A quick check on HP's website and I can make that PC for around $1k. And I know I could make it around $800 or less if I were building it myself. Soo...in short, parents shouldn't be allowed to buy computers xP



Though on the upside, it's a capable gaming PC. Yes it is a good PC to answer your question. It's not good for the price, but hey, whadya gonna do.

I really only know how to measure "how good" in terms of gaming performance, and I am sure you'll be able to max out most games you plan on playing, unless you plan to play Crysis xD But it's certainly at least twice as powerful as a 360.

[Darxidium]

This was the best deal in the city. My dad repairs/builds PC's as a side job, and while I'm sure he's not perfect, something just seems wrong when you all say that this computer is way overpriced.

[SSJ3 Mario Brothers]

It's a $200 processor with a $200 graphics card (you can look those up and verify). And those are typically the two most expensive components. So adding in a (generous) $700 for the rest of the components and it better not be more than $1100 plus tax.

[Solash]

SSJ3 Mario Brothers, on 07 February 2010 - 11:12 PM, said:

Soo...in short, parents shouldn't be allowed to buy computers xP

Quoted for the TRUTH!!!

and if your dad builds computers why didn't he build his own?

[Darxidium]

Solash, on 08 February 2010 - 03:27 PM, said:

Quoted for the TRUTH!!!

and if your dad builds computers why didn't he build his own?

He was gonna, but he realized that the modern day stuff is much different than what he is used to dealing with.

[i_am_samus]

Yeah that computer, at Best Buy, would be no more than 650. The 4 gigs of RAM really bring it down in value, because only our "cheap" computers have those. Most of the computers we sell have 6 gigs of RAM.

[Solash]

My laptop has 2

[Impasse]

Mine has one gigabyte. And it works just fine for my purposes (read: practically nothing).

[SSJ3 Mario Brothers]

Solash, on 09 February 2010 - 07:55 PM, said:

My laptop has 2

Mine too =/ And my PC only has 4.


I'd like to upgrade it to 8, which would be cheap, but I'm gonna just wait until I decide to do a big upgrade to Core i7 and DDR3 so I don't have as much RAM to get rid of.

And yeah IAS, that's because i7 PCs use RAM in groups of 3, so it'll be 3, 6, or 12 GB. And 3 would be far too little, so you don't see that often. But 4 GB is a good amount for a PC that uses groups of 2 (see: anything not i7), because the next highest step would be 8 GB. Most people think that's overkill xD

[i_am_samus]

We only have like two desktops with i7, most are i3 or i5.

[SSJ3 Mario Brothers]

They're pretty much the same, obviously the lower end versions, but i3 and i5 use the multiple-of-two format for RAM.

[Darxidium]

So I officially have no clue what's being talked about anymore.

[i_am_samus]

SSJ3 Mario Brothers, on 10 February 2010 - 11:04 AM, said:

They're pretty much the same, obviously the lower end versions, but i3 and i5 use the multiple-of-two format for RAM.

Except that the i5 comes in both quad and dual core, where the i3 is only dual core, plus the i5 includes turboboost on some of their models, where (if I'm not mistaken) the i3 does not provide the feature.

[SSJ3 Mario Brothers]

Yeah sorry man, this has become a bit of a computer nerd spot xD


Yeah, like I said, lower end version xD Lower not just meaning clock speed, but core number. But it's the same architecture, so a dual core i3 is superior to a Core2Duo of the same speed.

Core i3:Corei7::Core2Duo:Core2Quad, approximately. And I consider Core2Duos lower end versions of Core2Quads xP That's all I'm saying.



Goddamn this makes me wanna upgrade my PC so bad >.< Core2Duo at 4GHz with 4 GB of RAM is just not enough.