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Posted September 10, 2012
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johnki: If you get this computer, your video card won't be supported in the event that you upgrade to Win8.
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JCD-Bionicman: But if I upgrade my video card that won't matter right?

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lukaszthegreat: yeah. needs dedicated card.

7770 is cheap and quite powerful card. you won't max out arma but it should play smoothly on avg settings at 1680

but otherwise. good purchase.
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JCD-Bionicman: When you say 7770, do you mean the card integrated onto the motherboard? I thought it was a ATI 3000?
Scroll down to where it says "onboard video".
what i mean is that you need a dedicated gpu at least amd 7770 or nvidia 650 to play arma at med settings.


onboard graphic card such as ati 3000 is not good enough.
Posted September 10, 2012
Dude, come on! What is your god damn budget?!

For $300 go with GTX660Ti or HD 7870
For $200 go with GTX560Ti or HD 7850
For $120 go with GTX550Ti or HD 7750

If even $100 is too much then I recommend to save for at least a $200 card. You also have to check power consumption. This is a decent site for that: http://www.hwcompare.com/
Posted September 10, 2012
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lukaszthegreat: onboard graphic card such as ati 3000 is not good enough.
That's not an onboard graphics card...

You're thinking Intel HD 3000.

The ATi Radeon 3000 HD is a dedicated card. It's just an old, now unsupported one.
Posted September 10, 2012
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lukaszthegreat: onboard graphic card such as ati 3000 is not good enough.
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johnki: That's not an onboard graphics card...

You're thinking Intel HD 3000.

The ATi Radeon 3000 HD is a dedicated card. It's just an old, now unsupported one.
Wikipedia has 'Radeon 3000 Graphics' listed as an IGP in it's Radeon family table. Apparently it's part of the 760G chipset. Stupid marketing names. XD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#IGP_.28HD_3xxx.2C_HD_4xxx.29
Posted September 10, 2012
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Snickersnack: Wikipedia has 'Radeon 3000 Graphics' listed as an IGP in it's Radeon family table. Apparently it's part of the 760G chipset. Stupid marketing names. XD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#IGP_.28HD_3xxx.2C_HD_4xxx.29
Wow, that's weird. Just a few select cards out of the entire Radeon HD series.
Posted September 10, 2012
This is what Mathieu from Hardware Revolution has to say about this bundle from Tigerdirect:
It's unreliable meaning that it can cause BSODs, crashes, freezing, random reboots, is incapable of delivering its rated power, has only 32A on the +12V line (the most used voltage line on a modern PC, so your "600W" PSU can't deliver 400W on what is mostly used) and worse of all, is likely to die after a few weeks/months and kill components in your PC because it doesn't feature overcurrent protection and other safety measures meant to protect your delicate PC components.

THAT is why it's junk.
Post edited September 10, 2012 by JCD-Bionicman
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