TheNiceGuy
Golden Member
You kind soul! thank you for coming in! Sit down by my fire and let me tell you a tale.
OK. My story. I have an AMD Athlon 2100+ Fujitsu CE21C desktop PC here in Japan that I got deceived into buying last year. I wanted a good gaming PC that could run any new game now with the potential for upgradeability, and made this very clear to the sales staff. I was assured this was the cats meow, bought it, and by the time the return policy expired, had found out why I couldn't play certain games. It has a PCI slot, as in PCI-NOEXPRESS, for video. Not only that, but the monitor plug has been fvcked with so it will only work on other Fujitsus of simular design. I was very upset. (And whenever I think now about it, I get upset again!) So I did a bit of research. I bought a new monitor and PCI video card and 512MB RAM. I have been using this since. As you can imagine, I'm getting about 1 fps in some spots of BFV and other favourite games. So I did some more reseach. I have decided to build a new system. I wanted to have it ordered Dec. 1st, and fiddle around with it during my holidays. I have become bogged down in research (benchmarks, real world performance, reviewer vs retail hardware, fps, availability, mhz, SATA II, RAID 0, CL timings and Winchester cores, compatable RAM, fan dB, and on and on and on)and "what if"s, "wait! new tech just over the hill!"s, and "don't listen to that guy! You'll regrete it later. Get this!"s. It is now Christmas day, and I have not ordered anything yet. And my eyes and fingers hurt from doing so much asking around and research. I just found this forum a few days ago, and while it is great, I don't know if I can handle reading for another couple of months through all the archives and cross referencing it and trying to search in japanese here if i can get parts, etc,etc,etc. I'm going bonkers! I just want to buy my system and get on with it!
So. Let me start again. I just want to- *MY GOAL* -play new games without hassle, down/upload a lot of stuff, burn CD/DVDs, and work a little bit with apps like Photoshop and Soundforge (nothing crazy here), while saving as much $ as possible. What will help me do this?
I decided against OCing, as my motive is to save money (seems like the expense [proper PSU/cooling/case/shorter parts life] and risk [negates warranty/could 'meltdown'/mabey very limited OC despite doing it right]of OCing negate any savings).
Of course, I would like to have the potential to upgrade in the relatively uncertain future (who knows what is really 'upgradable'?) if possible to , again, fulfill *MY GOAL*.
Anyway, the system I am now considering getting to fulfill *MY GOAL* is this:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...7&threadid=1473243
Please help if you can.
I want to get on with this.
And if I seem too cautious, I am. I still remember the horrible fealing of getting burned BIG TIME on the Fujitsu. And all that stuff I bought to upgrade it is almost garbage now (ie 2100 RAM).
OK. My story. I have an AMD Athlon 2100+ Fujitsu CE21C desktop PC here in Japan that I got deceived into buying last year. I wanted a good gaming PC that could run any new game now with the potential for upgradeability, and made this very clear to the sales staff. I was assured this was the cats meow, bought it, and by the time the return policy expired, had found out why I couldn't play certain games. It has a PCI slot, as in PCI-NOEXPRESS, for video. Not only that, but the monitor plug has been fvcked with so it will only work on other Fujitsus of simular design. I was very upset. (And whenever I think now about it, I get upset again!) So I did a bit of research. I bought a new monitor and PCI video card and 512MB RAM. I have been using this since. As you can imagine, I'm getting about 1 fps in some spots of BFV and other favourite games. So I did some more reseach. I have decided to build a new system. I wanted to have it ordered Dec. 1st, and fiddle around with it during my holidays. I have become bogged down in research (benchmarks, real world performance, reviewer vs retail hardware, fps, availability, mhz, SATA II, RAID 0, CL timings and Winchester cores, compatable RAM, fan dB, and on and on and on)and "what if"s, "wait! new tech just over the hill!"s, and "don't listen to that guy! You'll regrete it later. Get this!"s. It is now Christmas day, and I have not ordered anything yet. And my eyes and fingers hurt from doing so much asking around and research. I just found this forum a few days ago, and while it is great, I don't know if I can handle reading for another couple of months through all the archives and cross referencing it and trying to search in japanese here if i can get parts, etc,etc,etc. I'm going bonkers! I just want to buy my system and get on with it!
So. Let me start again. I just want to- *MY GOAL* -play new games without hassle, down/upload a lot of stuff, burn CD/DVDs, and work a little bit with apps like Photoshop and Soundforge (nothing crazy here), while saving as much $ as possible. What will help me do this?
I decided against OCing, as my motive is to save money (seems like the expense [proper PSU/cooling/case/shorter parts life] and risk [negates warranty/could 'meltdown'/mabey very limited OC despite doing it right]of OCing negate any savings).
Of course, I would like to have the potential to upgrade in the relatively uncertain future (who knows what is really 'upgradable'?) if possible to , again, fulfill *MY GOAL*.
Anyway, the system I am now considering getting to fulfill *MY GOAL* is this:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...7&threadid=1473243
Please help if you can.
I want to get on with this.
And if I seem too cautious, I am. I still remember the horrible fealing of getting burned BIG TIME on the Fujitsu. And all that stuff I bought to upgrade it is almost garbage now (ie 2100 RAM).
