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So my younger brother is all about me building a computer for him. We're gonna go pretty barebones and use alot of the parts from our older family computer. I have a very hefty PSU, DVD drives, KBAM, monitor etc. So I was looking at some of those cool barebone computers on newegg. Nothing in mind yet just browsing.

But I realized in the last two years all he's done every day is play Counter Strike and WoW.

Honestly those are the only games he plays and the only ones he will probably, he's a real active guy and just likes to log in to either every so often. So why future proof myself?

But I really don't know what kind of systems it takes to run both on maxed out settings. They're both older games so it shouldn't be that big a deal.

TL;DR Any suggestions on specs I should go with, just to play WoW and CS:S on max settings.

Hamju

What's your budget?

drunkgnoll

I would personally recommend that obviously you should get a midlevel 7000-era card from nvidia (I cannot say anything about ati because I do not know that much about them). You certainly should not get a dual core processor (because it is basically useless in windows xp which I presume he will be using) or a 64 bit one since it may cause some problems that your brother might not know how to deal with. However, I do believe you should put some money into getting 2 gigs of ram and a nice psu (probably some real overkill like 500 watts). This will save him a lot of trouble in the long run. The only thing is that you really should not mislead him when describing the setup, because if he ever tries to install vista or any sort of a new game he would be severely dissapointed.

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Hamju wrote: »

What's your budget?

I was guessing 600-700 but I really don't know.

I'm not sure what I'm going to get away with here on specs, and if I end up using some moderately older parts how much they're even running now. All in all I know I'm not going bleeding edge, and like I said were going to be recycling. :P

drunkgnoll wrote: »

I would personally recommend that obviously you should get a midlevel 7000-era card from nvidia (I cannot say anything about ati because I do not know that much about them). You certainly should not get a dual core processor (because it is basically useless in windows xp which I presume he will be using) or a 64 bit one since it may cause some problems that your brother might not know how to deal with. However, I do believe you should put some money into getting 2 gigs of ram and a nice psu (probably some real overkill like 500 watts). This will save him a lot of trouble in the long run. The only thing is that you really should not mislead him when describing the setup, because if he ever tries to install vista or any sort of a new game he would be severely dissapointed.

Certainly, and that's exactly the advice I was looking for. We will be using our old XP so yea. I actually scored the PSU from a friend who had it in a huge rig, I don't know the exact wattage but I know it's overkill.

gneGne

Except for the part where he is advising you NOT to get a dual core. I wouldn't buy a solo core anymore.