Urgent Decision! Help!

[Jer1729]

Laptop or Desktop?

 

[Pyree]

Mobility- laptop
Stationary and performance- desktop

 

[Jer1729]

Well I'm a freshmen in high school, I only play world of Warcraft , Minecraft, and browse The Internet. I have a budget of $1000. Do you recommend I get a laptop or desktop?

 

[Pyree]

Do you need a laptop in the classroom in the school you are attending?

 

[Jer1729]

No

 

[Jer1729]

I guess desktop would be logical

 

[Jer1729]

Can you recommend a good desktop for or under $800. I play World of Warcraft, Minecraft, and etc. I wanna play WoW on at least high. I also want Bluray capability (optional). I don't necessarily need a gaming desktop, a regular brand desktop such as asunder, Lenovo, or hp would suffice.

 

[Pyree]

You are old enough to build a desktop alone. Do it. You will find the skill is useful later in your life.

 

[Jer1729]

Nvm

 

[Jer1729]

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/ShoppingCart.aspx?Submit=view will this work?

 

[tsnor]

$1000 would give you a VERY strong system.

Go over to cyberpower. google them, also use the cyberpower foum on this site,

Look at intel i5 based builds. The i5 will be i5-2300, i5-2400, i5-2500, i5-2500k. You want any of these, but should not be paying a big premium for any of them. Hold off overclocking until you can afford to fry a system -- i.e. don't do it.

Look for a video card that is HD6850 or better. This article recommends cards, but more important -- the last page compares all cards so you can see which cards are teh same as HD6850 or better. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fastest-graphics-card-radeon-geforce,3085-3.html

I think you can find a great system for less than $1000. Try starting with a system with i5-2500K and step down to i5-2400, step down on MB to H61 no z68. Step up to hd6850 video = $900.

Aside, See if you can get the change from $1000 put in a STEAM account for you (do you use STEAM, if not take a look. It beats the heck out of needing DVDs to play games and trying to remember where you put keys when you change PCS or wipe out a hard drive).

EDIT: I picked intel i5 because 2 years from now you can slop in a new video card and play this system for another 2 years. IF you need to save $$ now, go to intel i3-2300 based system. That should knock another few hundred off price and still be strong enough to drive the 6850 for gameplay. It just won't have as long a life before it gets too slow. Avoid the new high end AMD 'bulldozer' based systems -- they have a few performance bugs to work out before you want to go there.

EDIT 2: I see your budget went down from $1000 to $800. Go to the cyberpower forum adn ask over there what systems they recomend at that pricepoint.