Computer help please
I am going to get a new computer preferably a desktop and I am stuck so many options I am looking at some alienware computers but those are mostly laptops. I want the computer to be able to support WOW or Runscape depends on money good ol dink smallwood and I forget what the editor on rtsofts website is called please help thanks.
"I forget what the editor on rtsofts website is called"
Novashell? Also, Dink should run on just about any modern computer. For games like WoW or Runescape, you might want one with a good graphics card, with a fair bit of graphical memory but probably more important is the processing power. I'm not too sure, but graphics cards are important.
On board graphics cards (they are just chips on the motherboard) have gotten increasingly better over the years, but serious gamers will want a dedicated card or two. One should be enough.
Memory isn't of too much concern, as long as you have a modest amount you should be fine. Also, a fast CPU is a good idea, maybe multi-core.
Sound cards, although pretty cool and stuff, are kinda over-rated. An on-board sound card is good enough for a casual gamer.
I don't know that much, but hopefully someone else can help you out.
Novashell? Also, Dink should run on just about any modern computer. For games like WoW or Runescape, you might want one with a good graphics card, with a fair bit of graphical memory but probably more important is the processing power. I'm not too sure, but graphics cards are important.
On board graphics cards (they are just chips on the motherboard) have gotten increasingly better over the years, but serious gamers will want a dedicated card or two. One should be enough.
Memory isn't of too much concern, as long as you have a modest amount you should be fine. Also, a fast CPU is a good idea, maybe multi-core.
Sound cards, although pretty cool and stuff, are kinda over-rated. An on-board sound card is good enough for a casual gamer.
I don't know that much, but hopefully someone else can help you out.
All of those should run on any modern computer, if that's all you need it for just buy something cheap!
I would say make sure the graphics card is discrete rather than integrated. A discrete graphics card has its own RAM and is much faster. Most laptops seem to have integrated cards. I don't know about desktops.
Should have mentioned this earlier that a model name or a type of computer would be nice.
What I did when I was looking for a new computer was to search newegg.com and tigerdirect.com to see what they had. They list a lot of different brands, and they give technical details and customer reviews for their computers. Even if you actually buy the computer from somewhere else, it can at least give you an idea of what you're looking for. Wikipedia has a lot of info on graphics cards and CPUs. Generally the newer models will be better. Those were the main components I based my decision on.
I ended up getting an HP Pavilion G60-120US laptop, which didn't turn out to be that great for gaming because of the integrated graphics card. My HP desktop at work seems good (the model is HPE-410t), but I don't use the desktop for gaming, so I don't know how it stacks up.
I ended up getting an HP Pavilion G60-120US laptop, which didn't turn out to be that great for gaming because of the integrated graphics card. My HP desktop at work seems good (the model is HPE-410t), but I don't use the desktop for gaming, so I don't know how it stacks up.
