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  1. Jaemzs

    Jaemzs Ex-Build Team Member

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    Soo, I found this. it looks good for price, and the RAM and dick space. But I want to record, and run shaders at the same time. Or just one at a time. Is this good enough for that?

    PC: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-IBM-...630042?hash=item2c9bcf871a:g:DyIAAOSwZG9Wk83N

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    RAM: 8 Gigabytes
    Harddrive: 1 Terabyte
    Core: Core 2 Duo
    Brand: Lenovo IBM
    7 3.0GHz
    19" LCD
    OS: Windows 7
    Price: $179.95 USD

    So, would this be a good computer? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks Brawlers,
    ImDualley
     
  2. williamthegreat

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    That's cheap even for USD.
    Yea a good PC for General use and MindCraft but it has no GPU so consider getting one to lighten the load off the CPU
    If you have any money leftover, consider getting an SSD for windows, your overall speed and performance will increase that way.
     
  3. Jaemzs

    Jaemzs Ex-Build Team Member

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    What is a SSD?
     
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    Solid State Drive. Much, much faster than a traditional hard drive with the spinning platter.

    A very good investment to future proof your PC
     
  5. amazingallen234

    amazingallen234 Former Jmod | Wild West

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    SSD stands for Solid State Drives. They are faster but don't hold as much data as an HDD (hard drive disk). You see SSD's everywhere in tablets and smartphones.
     
  6. williamthegreat

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    Also this PC is only good enough to do one thing good at any given time.
    If you want good FPS in Minecraft, don't record or run shaders. Visa versa

    You'll have to splash some cash to get a PC to do all 3 at once.
     
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    Btw Minecraft likes to run on you CPU and you CPU has a dual core in it so.... :/
     
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    Not necessarily, what you mean is that per gigabyte, Hard Drives are cheaper. SSDs now have the same capacity as Hard Drives and are much smaller. M.2 drives are a great example of this.

    Umm, just because an application is more reliant on CPU than GPU does not negate the need of a graphics card.
    Whilst the CPU in question is sorta fast (3GHz) it only has 2 cores. Those resources are gonna be spread thin. Plus with no graphics card, the monitor will have to be plugged into the motherboard directly, forcing onboard graphics from the CPU. That's just too much for the poor thing to handle. Let a GPU look after giving input to the monitor, and give the CPU some breathing space to focus on them good framerates in Minecraft.
     
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    Btw can you take a look at this build? and give some feedback

    https://www.brawl.com/threads/54435/
     
  10. Ayyyylienslmao

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    It is most certainly not a good computer.

    But what did you expect for under 200 dollars? That's the real question here.
     
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    On a serious note though,this PC looks like something you would use for an office or something related to that.
    It probably could run minecraft on "low settings",but using shaders for it is a big question mark. When I switch to my cpu-integrated graphics (intel graphics 4000,my laptop does have an APU made by AMD though) in my laptop and try to run some low versions of shaders I barely get 14 fps.Considering the fact that it has an intel core 2 as a processor and has 2 cores,it would probably not be able to run shaders,play minecraft and record 60fps 1080p (or something like that).
    TL;DR: For that pricetag you get a computer that will work fine in an office.
    It probably is not really good in gaming,though.
     
  12. Jaemzs

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    would I be able to individually run shaders without recording? or record gameplay without shaders?
     
  13. Greedy_Bee

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    Let me put it to you this way.
    You've got sub par RAM, a budget processor, and a horrid GPU (On board).
    You'll be able to run Minecraft, sure, phone's can run it, but anything else heavy, yeah, no.
    It's a school / work computer.
     
  14. Jaemzs

    Jaemzs Ex-Build Team Member

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    Hmm. Well, If I purchase the computer, then upgrade the GPU and CPU, would it run better?
     
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    You're buying a prebuilt machien with a prebuilt power supply, meant to power that prebuilt machine. If you're lookin' to drop 200 on that, then upgrade the CPU, GPU, PSU, and get it to a DECENT level, you'd be easily be paying another ~200 or up.
     
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    I agree, what's he buying is a starting place. Depending on how much watts the current one is depends in a new power supply is top of his list.
    But, considering OP didn't know what a SSD is, he may need some help to build it.

    Whilst that is true, I think I can say one of us here expected OP to buy it and walk away with 60fps.
    Some upgrading will have to be done.
     
  17. Jaemzs

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    did ya look at the specs?
     
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