So after playing on beta on my current laptop at low/medium settings, I have come to a resolution that for best experience of ESO, I should invest in buying a new PC... one that will play ESO in its highest settings!

I have found a great PC on amazon for a very good price with these specs:

if your not building ur own its a waste of money take ur time and research and build your own system rather than pay thru the nose for someone elses built system people who sell built computers on amazon buy the cheapest parts they can and then sell high to maximize profits if u want a good system you can go with several options also btw your better off with two 1 TB hard drives than with a 2 TB hard drive since the 1 TB hard drives are stabler

If u want a good processor, go for Intel i5 or i7, I've heard too many bad things about Athlon. Also 16Gb ram is overkill, 8gb is more than enough to have really, really short loading screens. I have 6gb ram atm and loading screens go quickly. Ram wont affect ur fps tho.

lol AMD is just as good as intel for gaming purposes and a heckuva lot cheaper I will say though the processor u listed isnt very good your better off going with a AMD PHenom black quad core or 6 core no real need for a 8 core at this point unless u work in the graphics design or programming fields

That is an excellent cpu and will run ESO easily. The FX 8350 is the AMD's near equivalent to Intel's i7. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

As the #2 poster said, if you can build your own machine from ordering the parts separately, it will be less expensive. But if you want less fuss and muss, that system should give you great performance.

Adding in that AMD 290 card will really push up the overall system price. Most places are charging much higher prices than the msrp on that line..

Where are you buying from? (UK, US or elsewhere?)

What is your budget?

If you can reply with these I'll see what I can knock up for you

Hello I'm from UK and my budget is under ￡700 if possible, including OS. Or ￡650 and under without OS.

It looks like I had stupidly omitted the FX 8350 part when I was doing the performance calculator!

I went on the manufacturer's website itself- VIBOX, and tried building my own parts, and it still works out cheaper for better HD space and bigger RAM space with amazon deal.

If Kaendor's right in that ESO runs perfectly quick and fast with 8GB RAM, perhaps I can browse for PCs that offer lesser specs for lesser price...

Is that true? 1 TB will be stabler? Ok! I will take up your advice and look for this instead. Thank you

Ok 8GB RAM sounds good enough then yes? Is it the graphics card then that will affect the FPS mainly? Is the graphics card above good enough for high FPS consistently?

Graphics card and ur processor is what affects the Fps mainly as far as I know. Your video card sounds very good, you should have no problems with it. I had problems before with my video card overheating, you might not encounter this issue, but If I can give you a tip, buy an extra fan and attach it to ur cpu since its better to be prepared. Im running a 2gb GeForce GTX 650, I run the game on ultra with no problems. I get some fps lag sometimes but thats because of my processor that I got to upgrade.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121823you can see some info about that video card.

Finished building my new PC today specifically to play ESO. Had a budget of $800, ended up spending $1k. Sigh...well at least it'll play anything on max settings.

Wow that's a great budget, it's what I'm looking for really. How did you build you own? Do you mean building your own manually with your own hands or getting a specialist to do it for you?

May I ask what your newly built specs are if it can play all on max settings? It sounds fantastic for just 1k!!

How does this look to you?

CASE:

Cooler Master K-350 Black Mid Tower ￡33.59

PSU:

550W Antec VP550F Black PSU ￡50.39

MOBO:

MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate, Intel Z87 ￡68.24

CPU:

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO ￡25.45

Intel Core i5 4670K, S 1150, Haswell, Quad Core, 3.4GHz ￡167.94

GPU:

2GB XFX Radeon R9 270 Boost (BF4 free) ￡132.32

RAM:

8GB Corsair DDR3 XMS3 PC3-12800 (1600) ￡60.96

System SSD:

128GB Corsair Force Series GS 2.5" SSD ￡57.59

Storage HDD:

1TB Seagate ST1000DM003 Barracuda ￡41.98

Total = ￡649.44

Still need an OS and an optical drive (well maybe I've not used my optical drive for 4 years)

You'll see the biggest gains from having a SSD. The CPU will be future proof for a few years at least and the GPU will eat ESO for breakfast. With the MOBO you'll have the flexibility to upgrade the GPU add more RAM and additional HDDs should you require. You may have to consider a different cooler for the CPU should you be interested in overclocking but out of the box it will be fine.

Yes, you're missing something.

That Processor is about 4x as fast as mine, and I run on Ultra.

That said, I wouldn't buy AMD, but that's just me.

To be fair ESO isnt the most demanding of games. I can play on Ultra without any problems in PvE (PvP is a different story) and that's on an Intel E8500 CPU, GTX 460 GPU and only 4GB of RAM, no SSD and old P5Q Pro MOBO and a small 450w Corsair PSU. It does the job, I can play fine in PvP on High but I will be looking to upgrade my system this summer so I can play PvP on Ultra.

What are the specs of your current system? (Start >> Run >> DxDiag)

Depends what you're after, bang per buck AMD is the winner my old FX55 was a beast back in the day and I wouldn't think twice about an FX 9590! But Intel currently do hold the crown for the quickest processors especially their Xeon range but were not looking at making a server hive here.

If youve got the budget go for Intel, if not get a good solid AMD that has a high headway for OCing and you won't be disappointed.

Get an i5, anything that can be OCed around 4ghz will get the job done, an old cheap "3750k" would be perfect. Anything followed by a "k" is good.

Keep in mind this is only required for PvP (huge battles, lot of players on screen) because when it comes to PvE my mule comp can run this game fine in high settings.

AMD are not bad processors, its just that some games dont like them.

That all looks great, exactly the specs I'd want but the PC I found on amazon has HD space and RAM twice as big as your specs and cost less. ￡599.99

So verdict I think you won't get any cheaper than yours or better specs than mine for ￡600 right?

lolz.. that's the textbook definition of "bad"

I was a huge AMD fan back in the K6 days. I even got to see a 600Mhz Athlon running months before they were released. But AMD systems always required a little too much tweaking for my taste. Even in the days when AMD outperformed Intel, the extra work to get it going wasn't worth the effort.

ymmv

Well if you look at the benchmarks some of the AMDs are really good.

From a gamer perspective yeah they are just not reliable.

Hmmm what do you need the extra space for? Also why do you need 16gb of RAM (more is not always better) do you do a lot of HD rendering, CAD work or run a flight simulator from your PC?

Do you have the exact specs and manufacturer listed for each of the parts of the PC you're buying on Amazon? I'll see what it would cost to buy the parts and build it yourself.

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Or better yet link me to the item will be quicker.

This is what I have an during the beta I have been able to play at Max settings with most places being 80FPS and 120FPS in less intensive places.. Dropping to 30 during huge PvP encounters.

CASE: Cooler Master HAF 912 Mid Tower

PSU: EVGA 600B 80 Plus Bronze

OS: Windows 7 64bit

PROCESSOR: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 4.0 GHZ OC to 4.5GHZ

MEMORY: 16GB Gskill DDR3

DISK SPACE:

• 500GB HDD
• 250GB SDD

GPU: EVGA GTX 760 4GB VRAM

MOTHERBOARD: ASUS M5A97 R2.0 ATX

I've always bought a variety of CPUs just because I like to keep from getting stuck with the misconceptions and urban legends. Of the problems I had, it technically wasn't the CPU that had trouble, but mostly the motherboards aka chipsets. Some chipsets just seem to have more *little* things going on with it than intel. My expereince was if you wanted an absolute trouble free system, You bought a basic Intel motherboard. Sometimes it's all the bells and whistles they throw in for overclocking that leads to problems elsewhere, even when you don't overclock at all.

I had more *little* problems with the Nforce series motherboards than anything else.

With all that said, while I mostly own Intel now I think most people would find any of the latest AMD chipsets more than enough for their needs. Worst case you might have to stay on top of keeping the various chipset drivers up to date than a generic Intel system, but I doubt it would be that much extra work. AMD is moving away from highend CPUs and focusing more on the middle of the road CPU\GPU market. So sadly for us gamers, Intel will soon be the only answer for the higher end market.

Guess we need to define what is "a lot" cheaper. The FX8350 is $199. The i5-4670 is $220 if you want the overlock-able version than $240. If a person isn't interested in overclocking the cost difference is $20, I myself consider that a wash. If you're into overclocking then the 8350 may prove to be a better value.