Hi,
!!! If you think "you will never be able to do this with that little money" or "you spoiled kid, why aren't you satisfied with what you've got?" At ANY point, STOP reading, it's a waste of your time, and please do say so in a reply !!!
Of course there are already many threads on this subject, and of course I will do my research on this subject too, but I figured it would be handy if I got some assistance from more experienced people for choosing the right hardware and correctly assembling the pieces in a later stage. I have got a notebook, I believe it is a mid-range model, which performs excellently when browsing the web, writing and reading documents, and playing media like films and music. It is a nice looking machine and the keyboard feels great. The screen is the perfect size for me for a notebook and I use it all the time to move around the house mainly for watching streaming video. The trackpad has some great features which make scrolling, for example, feel very natural. When it comes to gaming, the computer performs quite well when playing games like GTA IV, and Battlefield 3 on lower settings. Flight Simulator X, which I use a lot and I hope someone here knows something about, sometimes makes me happy by having a very high frame rate with some higher settings. But, not rarely, the frames drop to about 2 to 6 fps, even on the lowest possible settings, and the entire pc becomes slow, and that makes me want to punch the notebook in the face and go cry in a corner. That's probably caused by FSX not being tweaked and optimized, but I will post some of this to an FSX specific forum. Sometimes games are very laggy, sometimes these lags are because I'm usually connected via wifi, not via a network cable
. This notebook is doomed. I have 2 threads on this forum regarding this issue: windows explorer keeps crashing. I've been to the shop several times, they've replaced the motherboard and later the HDD, I've done countless factory resets, but the problem is still there.
Anyway, this is not a review on my notebook. there are some games coming out later this year, like Battlefield 4 and GTA V, and of course more games will come out after that which I'll also want to play with at least 30fps and decent looking graphics. I also want FSX to run at these frames with nice looking graphics.i do not want a super computer at all, I just want my built computer to perform better than my current notebook at gaming, and making me think "ohmygodohmygod this runs so smooth and this looks so nice ohmygod!" every time I play on it.
• I want a computer that performs better than my current notebook, at gaming. I'll keep the notebook for the rest. And I want to build a computer because I think it will be fun doing it
• I haven't got a very high budget, but if I sell my Playstation which I bought and almost never use I might be able to get some extra money.
• I need everything: case, motherboard, CPU, Power supply, (cooling fan), DVD drive, video card, motherboard, monitor (at least 15,7"), keyboard, and everything that I forgot here.
(Now that I'm writing all of this down, I make myself look very spoiled...)
These are the specs of my notebook, the newly built computer will have to perform better: (If any more specs are needed, just ask and I'll try and look it up)
ASUS X53SC/K53SC
15,7" Monitor
Intel Core i5 Processor @2.3GHz, with Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz
nVidia GeForceGT500 MX Video Card
4GB RAM
My initial budget will only be around €350, for the pc only, excluding monitor, keyboard etcetera. (I'm 15, don't expect me to be a billionaire
) Maybe I'll adjust this to a higher or lower amount of money.
Thanks a LOT for reading, hope you're still alive when you read the whole thing.
Thanks,
David
!!! If you think "you will never be able to do this with that little money" or "you spoiled kid, why aren't you satisfied with what you've got?" At ANY point, STOP reading, it's a waste of your time, and please do say so in a reply !!!
Of course there are already many threads on this subject, and of course I will do my research on this subject too, but I figured it would be handy if I got some assistance from more experienced people for choosing the right hardware and correctly assembling the pieces in a later stage. I have got a notebook, I believe it is a mid-range model, which performs excellently when browsing the web, writing and reading documents, and playing media like films and music. It is a nice looking machine and the keyboard feels great. The screen is the perfect size for me for a notebook and I use it all the time to move around the house mainly for watching streaming video. The trackpad has some great features which make scrolling, for example, feel very natural. When it comes to gaming, the computer performs quite well when playing games like GTA IV, and Battlefield 3 on lower settings. Flight Simulator X, which I use a lot and I hope someone here knows something about, sometimes makes me happy by having a very high frame rate with some higher settings. But, not rarely, the frames drop to about 2 to 6 fps, even on the lowest possible settings, and the entire pc becomes slow, and that makes me want to punch the notebook in the face and go cry in a corner. That's probably caused by FSX not being tweaked and optimized, but I will post some of this to an FSX specific forum. Sometimes games are very laggy, sometimes these lags are because I'm usually connected via wifi, not via a network cable
. This notebook is doomed. I have 2 threads on this forum regarding this issue: windows explorer keeps crashing. I've been to the shop several times, they've replaced the motherboard and later the HDD, I've done countless factory resets, but the problem is still there.
Anyway, this is not a review on my notebook. there are some games coming out later this year, like Battlefield 4 and GTA V, and of course more games will come out after that which I'll also want to play with at least 30fps and decent looking graphics. I also want FSX to run at these frames with nice looking graphics.i do not want a super computer at all, I just want my built computer to perform better than my current notebook at gaming, and making me think "ohmygodohmygod this runs so smooth and this looks so nice ohmygod!" every time I play on it.
• I want a computer that performs better than my current notebook, at gaming. I'll keep the notebook for the rest. And I want to build a computer because I think it will be fun doing it
• I haven't got a very high budget, but if I sell my Playstation which I bought and almost never use I might be able to get some extra money.
• I need everything: case, motherboard, CPU, Power supply, (cooling fan), DVD drive, video card, motherboard, monitor (at least 15,7"), keyboard, and everything that I forgot here.
(Now that I'm writing all of this down, I make myself look very spoiled...)
These are the specs of my notebook, the newly built computer will have to perform better: (If any more specs are needed, just ask and I'll try and look it up)
ASUS X53SC/K53SC
15,7" Monitor
Intel Core i5 Processor @2.3GHz, with Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz
nVidia GeForceGT500 MX Video Card
4GB RAM
My initial budget will only be around €350, for the pc only, excluding monitor, keyboard etcetera. (I'm 15, don't expect me to be a billionaire
) Maybe I'll adjust this to a higher or lower amount of money. Thanks a LOT for reading, hope you're still alive when you read the whole thing.
Thanks,
David
