Advice

[millermilla]

Hi,

Sorry to be asking questions with my first post but there seems to be lots of great advice on here.

I have been watching with interest the release of Elite Dangerous and I would love something to play it on. I also used to like flight siming. My current laptop is an i3-2310M with no dedicated GPU so not up to the job.

Having thought long and hard I think I would prefer to stick with a laptop even though I mainly use my laptop like a desktop.

My budget is around £600 and looking around I see I can probably get an i5 with a GT840M GPU and 8GB of RAM. Any idea what Elite would run like on this sort of setup and any pointers of what setup to buy.

Finally would I get a much better desktop setup for £600 compared to a laptop?


Thanks in advance

 

[millermilla]

Hi, yes I would need a Tower, OS and Monitor. I wouldn't mind getting a usable setup to start with knowing I could upgrade GPU, Monitor or RAM at a later date. Not sure if I could handle a full build, I've changed GPU's, RAM, Drives etc. in the past but never done a build from scratch.

 

[millermilla]

Firstly many thanks for your replies

I've been looking round and doing some research and although I first said I would prefer a laptop from looking at what I can build for the same cost it's a no brainer to go desktop.

I found some decent ready built machines but I'm really keen to build my own, just a little worried I will get something wrong. I have no problem at all with the physical assembly, I just worry about setting everything up correctly like RAM and HDD configurations.

Looking into the spec above it looks really great. I just have a few questions and possible changes.

1 x MSI AMD ATI Radeon 7950 BE 3072MB PCI-Express Graphics Card **REFURB 90 DAY WARRANTY** (R7950-3GD5 BE) £85.99

The performance of the card looks amazing for the price but what exactly does refurb mean?

I have just dug out of the loft 2 X Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 320GB Hard drives from my old system P/N 9BJ14G-505. Assuming these are O.K as storage drives is it worth re-configuring with an SDD and how would all these drives work together?

I know I will get the bug and will be looking at upgrades in 6 - 12 months time so what is the system above going to be like for upgrades?

Lastly I have always been into Nvidia / Intel. What would a similar performance system look like cost wise?

 

[millermilla]

£650 ish