I need a good Computer PC.

[bangus]

I was going to start looking this summer but my parents got me a laptop for my graduation. It's an HO Pavillion 15 Notebook PC, 5th gen processor, intel core i5-5200U (2.2 Ghz), NVIDIA GeForce graphics card, 500 GB hardrrive, SDRAM DDR3 of 6144 mb, windows 8.1.

I have no idea what any of that means but I know I can swap it for something else. All I really want is good RAM so everything runs smoothly and good battery endurance.

Hiwever, apparently this is a higher end laptop so I guess it should be able to run some games right? How well do you think it will run FM?

Your graphics card is much more important than ram. You did not state which geforce card. I have a geforce gt 460m card that is 4 years old and can't play many games anymore. A lot of new PCs are being sold with last year's cards and even cards from two years ago. A new PC with an old card is just an old PC.

 

[Mandieta6]

Is the graphics card that impiortant for regular functioning or do you mean for FM? I actually don't what the card is, how do I check?

First stumbling block: no microsoft office. Can't use my old one, have to pay for one. Trying to figure out a way around that.

Second: Windows 8 is horrible. I can't do basic things simply, it is simply awful.

 

[bangus]

Is the graphics card that impiortant for regular functioning or do you mean for FM? I actually don't what the card is, how do I check?

First stumbling block: no microsoft office. Can't use my old one, have to pay for one. Trying to figure out a way around that.

Second: Windows 8 is horrible. I can't do basic things simply, it is simply awful.

Start menu, type in device manager, then check display adapters. You card will be listed. Or right-click on your desktop to open the nvidia panel and check there. Open Office is a free Microsoft Office substitute. And Windows 8... I'm ordering a new Alienware PC and I'm paying an extra $70 to have Windows 7 installed on it rather than Windows 8. I hate Windows 8 plus it conflicts with too many of my old games and programs.

BTW, I would recommend an i7 4 ghz processor, anything less is old tech and just adequate. But of course if you're not using the PC to run high-end games, what you have now will no doubt work.

 

[Back Door Skip]

When I bought my computer, like 3 years ago, I purchased Windows 7 separately, and later I felt ripped off. But I guess it'll pay off whenever I buy a new computer, because I'll just install windows 7 on it and be ready to go.

 

[bangus]

When I bought my computer, like 3 years ago, I purchased Windows 7 separately, and later I felt ripped off. But I guess it'll pay off whenever I buy a new computer, because I'll just install windows 7 on it and be ready to go.

The only problem with that is you lose some of the pre-installed programs that come with a new Windows 8 PC. Example: I installed Windows 8 on a laptop and lost my Windows 7 Waves Maxx program. Dell doesn't have an update that works with Windows 8 so I had to switch back to the Windows 7 factory install.

Or I suppose you could use Windows 7 as your second OS...?

 

[Mandieta6]

Start menu, type in device manager, then check display adapters. You card will be listed. Or right-click on your desktop to open the nvidia panel and check there. Open Office is a free Microsoft Office substitute. And Windows 8... I'm ordering a new Alienware PC and I'm paying an extra $70 to have Windows 7 installed on it rather than Windows 8. I hate Windows 8 plus it conflicts with too many of my old games and programs.

BTW, I would recommend an i7 4 ghz processor, anything less is old tech and just adequate. But of course if you're not using the PC to run high-end games, what you have now will no doubt work.

I think it's an 840M.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Pfft, I have an 860M with 16GB of RAM.

 

[Mandieta6]

I have no idea what that means. I assume yours is better? How are you finding it in terms of speed and FM?

 

[bangus]

I have no idea what that means. I assume yours is better? How are you finding it in terms of speed and FM?

They're actually pretty comparable. The 800 series is essentially last year's tech, Nvidia is making 900 series now. Pretty good rig you have all things considered.

 

[Mandieta6]

I don't actually understand what any of that means.

 

[bangus]

It means keep the PC your parents gave you.

 

[Alex]

I have no idea what that means. I assume yours is better? How are you finding it in terms of speed and FM?

Graphics card won't affect FM.

Whoever suggested you worry about graphics card is someone thinking about normal gaming, not FM.

FM you want lots of RAM and a fast processor. A SSD as your hard drive that the system is on is good too (so when FM inevitably starts using virtual memory it's still reasonably fast). Processor and RAM are the two FM priorities though

 

[regularcat]

Or I suppose you could use Windows 7 as your second OS...?

You could but why dual boot.

 

[Alex]

You could but why dual boot.

Yep. He has 500gb hard drive, why would anyone waste space on dual booting two Windows versions?

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I have no idea what that means. I assume yours is better? How are you finding it in terms of speed and FM?

It's fine, but FM speed is a paradox in some ways. The better your computer the more leagues you will inevitably load, which means the slower the game. It loads extremely fast, but the play isn't really that much faster because I load more leagues.

Anyway, the first thing you'll want to do whether you play games or not is make your NVIDIA the default graphics card; out of the box it probably defaults to Intel Integrated Graphics.

They're actually pretty comparable. The 800 series is essentially last year's tech, Nvidia is making 900 series now. Pretty good rig you have all things considered.

I compromised in two places. 1) The graphics card because the cost difference would have been huge, and at the end of the day it's a laptop anyway so it's not like I'm going to be playing Skyrim at the highest resolution. 2) Got a really good Haswell processor instead of a super expensive Broadwell one.

 

[Alex]

It's fine, but FM speed is a paradox in some ways. The better your computer the more leagues you will inevitably load, which means the slower the game. It loads extremely fast, but the play isn't really that much faster because I load more leagues.

But that's exactly the joy of a faster computer, more and more leagues, more realism

 

[Tom]

But that's exactly the joy of a faster computer, more and more leagues, more realism

Yeah I started a game recently on my laptop and its buggerly slow but I don't as I just check here or Facebook while its loading. Still allows me to play with 15 or so nations

 

[Sepak]

Fuck all of you, speaclially, that fucking jew bastard.