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fzyk47

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Looking to replace an existing Laptop with a desktop to run Second life with firestorm viewer. Not a gamer but do a lot of texturing running two 25" monitors with a lot of open windows running, and swapping back and forth. Also sings in clubs in second life with background tracks. budget under 1000
 
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Tom Tancredi
*WAVES!!!!!* HEY HEY HEY! Yeah... Let me give you my 5 years experience level: Go NVIDIA!!! Yeps Nvidia works best with SL, ATI sucks I found out. Need to go i5 core or i7 core, would be best if your have alot of running windows, especially as your runnng 2 25"ers. I would suggest you get like the Walmart $349 i5Core desktop PC, the spend money on upgrading the PSU ($99+) for a higher end videocard ($249+) and you should be great for your setup for not terribly big investment. You can fork up to make sure the computer is around 8-16GB for RAM, but for 1K it is kind of hard to get a great system for all the heavy load your doing, normally your talking a i7Core, High end video (to support the monitors and keep up with your workload)...
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Tom Tancredi

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*WAVES!!!!!* HEY HEY HEY! Yeah... Let me give you my 5 years experience level: Go NVIDIA!!! Yeps Nvidia works best with SL, ATI sucks I found out. Need to go i5 core or i7 core, would be best if your have alot of running windows, especially as your runnng 2 25"ers. I would suggest you get like the Walmart $349 i5Core desktop PC, the spend money on upgrading the PSU ($99+) for a higher end videocard ($249+) and you should be great for your setup for not terribly big investment. You can fork up to make sure the computer is around 8-16GB for RAM, but for 1K it is kind of hard to get a great system for all the heavy load your doing, normally your talking a i7Core, High end video (to support the monitors and keep up with your workload), 16GB Ram, SSD + HDD preconfigured Windows setup around $1500-2000 sadly.


My Config:
Operating System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 740QM @ 1.73GHz 64 °C
Clarksfield 45nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (8-8-8-23)
Motherboard
Alienware
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1920x1080@100Hz)
Acer GD235HZ (1920x1080@100Hz)
1535MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M (Dell) 63 °C
Storage
232GB Samsung SSD 840 Series (SSD) 45 °C
931GB Seagate ST1000LM014-1EJ164 (SATA) 39 °C
465GB Seagate ST950042 0AS USB Device (USB (SATA)) 38 °C
931GB Western Digital WD Elements 1042 USB Device (USB (SATA)) 36 °C
 
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smeezekitty

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Sep 11, 2012
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Well my Radeon card seems to do ok. It does max out the 1GB VRAM, all my physical RAM and my CPU though

 
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