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by olivermellors
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I have grown a few efortunes in erepublik, gaming on an old Athlon/Vista tower. With the new game enhancements already introduced and more exciting features promised, I feel it is time to consider building a new gaming rig that will allow me to play at acceptable frame rates in high resolution and rekindle my interest in our eCanadian community. Perhaps you can help.
First thing I need to consider is the platform, hardware side. I’m thinking about a ballpark budget of 1,600 dollars. Will it be FX or Haswell refreshed?
The FX family offers much. I can get an octo-core with decent board for less than $300; less than $200 if I settle on a 6-core. Without overclocking, they can run decently with the stock cooler at 4 GHz.
The Haswell Devil’s Canyon stuff will set me back a bit more, the four core hyperthreaded SKU commanding $400 with some good downmarket stuff available. I can get a nice “97” board open box and be in for about twice the initial outlay as the alternative.
If you want to lend a hand with this build, comment below.
I do know that I still have a lot of things to consider: case, power supply, memory, storage, fans, lighting, etc. Maybe we can turn attention to each of those in turn and see where we end up. It would be nice to create a nice rig – an eRepublik beast that plays other games too, adequate for the new o/s coming in a few months and nimble with some productivity and rendering stuff.
Regards.
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AMD is cheaper, but generally uses a lot more power and throw off much more heat than Intel processors. Same can be said for their GPUs. I prefer Nvidia.
More cores can be great as long as what you are using utilizes all the cores. A quad i7 (or for performance to price ratio i5, as you mentioned the devil's canyon) is more than sufficient.
Hardware is not my forte, but I can suggest some fun software to help benchmark what your new rig can do once it is assembled. Might be entertaining to see oliver fly a Fw 190 or rumble around in a Sherman.
battlefield 4... crysis 3 is pretty intense... bet a few of us remember buying a 8800gt just to be able to play Crysis... which was quite a blast.
In Australia, we go to a store called Umart and we tell them what games we love to play. Their technicians set up a PC for us, it's always top quality for top dollar.
I have no idea about hardware any longer. That ship sailed about 10 years ago. Today a good quality laptop with plenty of memory will do about anything I need. I would mention the OS however. I'm using Mint and love it. A snap to update, no ridiculous AV/Malware software or cleaners, don't even need to defrag. There is Bleachbit but it's not really necessary usually. Just about anything you'd need is free to download unless you're stuck on some name brand software and most of that will run on Wine is you must. Gimp and Open Office are quite complete. There's even a .pdf reader/writer but I forget it's name. (Adobe had a fit but couldn't stop it.) Steam is there for gamers and from what I understand the popular graphics cards have great drivers. If all else fails Mint can set up a dual boot and partition your hard drive any way you like very easily when you install the OS.
There any reason many flavors of Linux but I feel that Mint is simple enough for someone like me that doesn't want to keep up to date anymore. Plus the desktop is a close knockoff of XPATH so it's easy for me to navigate.
What did this dumb as tablet do to the last paragraph? !
There are many flavors...
and
KnockKnockoff of XP...
Anyone who runs a Linux distribution AND appreciates the timeless quality of the Impala, is tops in my book.
~hyuu~
Talk to Leo Balzac, he got his beast.
I was sorta thinking Leo would get a chuckle out of my suggestion that it would take a monster rig to play erepublik "at acceptable frame rates in high resolution". 🙂