Need to PC

[nickelplateroad]

Hi! I'm so happy back new Job now since two years. I hopefully buy new computer than my old PC. My PC was none upgrade since 7 years. That's suck. And so I panning buy new one after happy new year. I went to Best Buy. I noticed that not interesting for me. And I went to Fry's in store. It's rare things. I don't know what best PC for Trainz. Does matter to me rebuilding PC or Buy it? Let me know send me anytime. Sorry my bad grammer lol. I'm deaf anyway....



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[cascaderailroad]

Stay away from Dell and Mac.

A laptop will cost somewhere upwards of $1000 or more, for a good 1-2 Gb video card.

A desktop upwards of $ 800 or more.

Your old desktop can be can be retrofitted wih a higher wattage power supply and a 1-2 Gb video card for under $500

A brand new laptop, I3 or I7, that has 8 GB Ram, and 1.5TB Hard Drive with a carpy integrated graphics card ... is no better than an old XP machine.

Trainz only uses 2Gb of Ram ... the video card is what matters, and a fast processor @ 2Ghz or better.

 

[johnwhelan]

Stay away from Dell and Mac.

A laptop will cost somewhere upwards of $1000 or more, for a good 1-2 Gb video card.

A desktop upwards of $ 800 or more.

Your old desktop can be can be retrofitted wih a higher wattage power supply and a 1-2 Gb video card for under $500

A brand new laptop, I3 or I7, that has 8 GB Ram, and 1.5TB Hard Drive with a carpy integrated graphics card ... is no better than an old XP machine.

Trainz only uses 2Gb of Ram ... the video card is what matters, and a fast processor @ 2Ghz or better.

Ts2009 and up can use up to 4 gigs of memory under a 64 bit operating system.

Cheerio John

 

[RRSignal]

You can build an excellent Trainz machine for about $500. Plan to add $100-$130 for a copy of Windows if you don't already own a copy that can be installed on a new machine (OEMs like Dell have non-transferable versions.) Just to give you an idea:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1241992&Sku=B69-1367

Mind you, the power supply on that example is underpowered and it doesn't have a video card. Plus, you really don't need 8Gb of memory, but hopefully you get the idea.

 

[JCitron]

Look at some of the package deals at New Egg too. They also have great customer service and great shipping on products.

www.newegg.com

John

 

[nickelplateroad]

Thank you very much!!




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