Hey guys, need a little help here. Im looking to buy a pc. and from first glance it looks awesome for the price. but idk alot about what goes good on computers except harddrive ram and the vid card. other than that all i see is like. a whole bunch of letters and numbers i dont understand. so please help me out and tell me if this is infact a good comp (considering price)

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229243

anybody please? im not too hardcoe. i play mmos here and there.

going by the specs, yes it "decent".

Yes.

You have AM3, and DD3 which means you are currently at about the forefront the bus-spectrum. As well as PCI-E. While the 5450 isn't top of the line, it is still medium-high-ish, and quite good. Combined with a built in 500w power supply you'll be able to easily upgrade.

I'd say especially since you're not going to be Crysis2 prone, you'd be great with it. It'll play Oblivion, Fallout 3 or New Vegas fine, as well as the original Crysis.

thanks warlock! yeah oblivion and fallout style games are all im ever gonna need. thank you very much

An HD 5450 is a very low end video card. Not really suiting for anything but older games and watching video. The power supply and CPU are decent enough you can replace the video card with something more appropriate for gaming (GTS 450, GTX 460, HD 5750, HD 5770 would suit it pretty well).

I just put a 5450 in my friends rig (My old mobo/CPU/RAM.) and I was quite surprised how well Oblivion runs on it. It's got a q9550 @ stock clocks (2.83GHz) with 4GB of DDR2 RAM.

It was averaging 40 FPS and felt smooth as silk in game. All sliders maxed. All water settings to off, no shadows, large textures @ 1440x900. (Monitors native resolution.)

The FPS barely dropped after moving them to that when the sliders were originally mostly left and textures on medium.

Not saying if you can afford a better one don't get it but if this is the best you can do, you should be fine as long as graphics are not the end all be all to you. Frankly, it impressed me and I am a bit of a graphics snob. My friends and their kids are not, and they are very pleased with the upgrade.

P.S.

Keep in mind the Gamebryo engine is quite CPU heavy rather than GPU. I saw huge FPS gains when I OC'd my I7 950 to 4.2GHz from 3.06GHz.

I brought a Cyberpower PC about 10 years ago, and it was a pretty decent system. I usually (read: almost always) build my own. It's cheaper, and you get what you want. But the Cyberpower system was good for the price.
That system looks good, but I'd want more than 4GB RAM (a 64bit OS can use up to 16GB, I have 12GB in my current system). Also, I prefer Intel over AMD...

These are personal preferences only, though.

4 GB of RAM is more than enough, you can always upgrade later for more RAM if you need it in the future. Please tell me you do video editing or something with that 12 GB, if all you do is play games then you wasted money for 8 GB you don't need.

I'm an amateur photographer, and my camera is set to save the images in NEF (RAW) format. They are enormous.
I use Gimp, Paint.net, and IrfanView to do any touch-up and editing, so yeah, I need the extra RAM for that.

Gaming is second fiddle for this rig.

Sorry to derail this thread, I did try PM you but for some reason I couldn't -_-
Just outta curiosity, I set my camera to NEF (was on JPEG fine) to see any difference. I can't open them on my computer with irfanview, picture gallery or anything. Do I have to download ALL irfanview plugins to open this file or just onev particular one?
Again, sorry for the derail but something's being screwy and doesn't like co-operating with me.