Cheap Prebuilt, will upgrade

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Last response: January 9, 2012 5:38 AM in Systems

January 9, 2012 3:35:04 AM

I have quite a few best buy gift cards from the holidays and am looking at this prebuilt.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Gateway+-+Desktop+/+Intel%2...

I plan on upgrading the powersupply to 500w and putting a Radeon 6850 in it immediatley. Will this be able to run Star Wars: The Old Republic on high settings with 40-50+ FPS after I've added the videocard? Thats the main thing I need it to do. Thanks.

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a4mula

January 9, 2012 4:49:05 AM

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/star-wars-gaming-te...

Looks like it, with 4x aa to boot. The 2120 shouldn't be much of a bottleneck. You can find benchmarks out there, but I'll save you the trouble, it's more than enough.

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Raiddinn

January 9, 2012 5:01:43 AM

Wouldn't hurt to go for a 6950 instead. SWTOR is very graphics intensive.

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primetimenoob

January 9, 2012 5:21:39 AM

Thanks for the info about the graphics card. But I will be fine with that i3 processor right? I don't plan on having anything other than a web browser or maybe ventrillo open while I run the game.

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phyco126

January 9, 2012 5:38:43 AM

Yes, you will be fine. Its faster than my E8400 and I do way more than that while I game and I never, ever have a slow down.

Usually have a few browsers open, each with several tabs, steam, and Yahoo IM... XD

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