specs to play most fps games with high settings (battlefield 3)

Budget? No budget no talk.

Many thanks, got the intel SSD at rm310.

Core i3 3220 RM389
MSI H61M-P31-RM149
Kingston 1333 ram 4GB RM64
Sapphire HD7750-RM329
FSP Hexa 500W PSU RM149
WD Caviar Blue 500GB HDD RM140
Lite-On 22x DVDRW RM59
Gigabyte GZ-X Casing-RM59
Acer V193H monitor-RM239
Total: RM1577
Prices from Viewnet.


Above was suggested for my 1.5k budget from a smart dude..
Anyway wanna ask whether this rig can handle sims 3, simcity all? Prefer playing strategy or games like sims and total war and sid meier civilization more on pc.. And still new to this all this while played console only.. Wanna ask 2 things:
1) Will this rig handle games like sims 3 and civilization, at what graphics level?? High or medium or just low..
2) if I have an external hard disk 1 TB, can i just give the guy at lowyat to extract the hdd and put it into my rig instead of me buying a new one?? Because want money to buy good mouse keyboard and speaker also..

thanks!

if i were to focus on gaming, which one is better?

a used core i5 2400 = RM400

or

a new core i3 3220 = RM378

Gaming? then just go for the I5

Guru,
If my budget around 2k, what is the expecting spec i can get ?
I also feel tempting on Alienware X51...

My wife's pc got some problem(no sure if power supply or mobo, sometimes can on sometimes not), she wan to share pc with me ...she used Photoshop quite frequent...

So I trying to get a I7 ...with 16GB RAM ...my budget can be stretch to 3k if needed...

I like the outlook of alienware even not a hardcord gamer..i play games like Football manager, fifa ....and i also need to used my machine for software development via VMware and java ...can someone point out should i go for clone or brand machine ?

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Added on September 19, 2012, 8:11 pmand of coz the spec I should go for ....My company notebook is I5 with 8gb, i feel slow in fact after run some application...also used I7-620M Dell notebook with 4 gb ram before, and i feel the need of more powerful machine

This post has been edited by alvincks: Sep 19 2012, 08:11 PM

Wanna try xeon?

what is the recommendation ?

Intel Xeon E3-1230V2 3.3GHz RM699
MSI B75MA-P45 mainboard RM224
Kingston 1333 DDR3 4GBx2 RM128
MSI GTX660 TF III 2GB RM899
Silverstone 500W PSU RM195
Aerocool Xpredator X1 Black case RM165
WD Caviar Blue 500GB HDD RM185
Lite-On 22x DVDRW RM59
Intel 330 120GB SSD RM339

Total -RM2903.00

Jayacom,viewnet n Lingloong@Garage sales.

guys, what is the cheapest 1155 socket mobo that have usb 3.0?

2.5k-3k

iinm, it should the msi b75ma-p45 rm224

cable ur price abit outdated?

Ada lagi murah..MSI H61MA-D2V..rear usb3.0 RM209 kot..

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Added on September 19, 2012, 10:20 pmReally ah?sorry..

This post has been edited by Cable707: Sep 19 2012, 10:20 PM

lagi best then

Friend,
But XEON e3-1230 slower than i7-3770

Nope..it's E3-1230 V2(ivy bridge)

The performance were similiar to i7 3770 but lack of OCability n IGP..still got the boost option,tho..priced lower than i7 summore..

Or if u can afford better,can consider E3-1240 V2

This post has been edited by Cable707: Sep 20 2012, 12:14 AM

if u worry the 100mhz slower has a huge difference, u can opt for e3 1240 v2 another rm150, rm849

I think most people wouldn't mind on that..it's only RM700,tho..and u can catch up the i7 performance