Is this a good computer for this price?

[vanycrsher]

Well im not a very rich person and i cant aford much money and i was wondering if this is a good computer for me. i want to play MMOrpgs and Fps and other pc games:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...ct_id=12347221

yeah im buying it at walmart. im tired of my VPR matrix which was a hand me down. made in 2000. have had it for 6 years :/

[Scorpus]

It's a nice PC and cheap, however the graphics card is really bad and won't give you great performance in games

[Alonso]

video games... yeah haven't played those in a while. never got to fully play my AoE III cuz of cruddy graphics card and didn't feel like going out and buying one.

[ZiNgABuRgA]

Lol, who the hell puts 6GB of RAM in that sort of a machine? (unless you're building a machine which will be used for RAM intensive tasks)

Otherwise, sucks for games.

[cr0bar]

Do something about the graphics card in the near future and it should be fine.

[Joe88]

Originally Posted by ZiNgABuRgA

Lol, who the hell puts 6GB of RAM in that sort of a machine? (unless you're building a machine which will be used for RAM intensive tasks)

Otherwise, sucks for games.

tell me about it

I hate people who are so ignorant about ram usage

on other forums I see buying putting upgrade/new build lists and having 8/12GB of DDR2 ram

Originally Posted by Asparagus Smith

However if you want to go cheaper I would recommend something like a 9600GT for around US$80

why not a 4830 which is 9800GT performance for the same price of a 9600GT

[ZiNgABuRgA]

Originally Posted by Joe88

tell me about it

I hate people who are so ignorant about ram usage

on other forums I see buying putting upgrade/new build lists and having 8/12GB of DDR2 ram

Tis fine if you're actually using it (ie requiring large RAMDisks etc), or just paying absurd prices for a "top-of-the-line" PC (though if that's recent, I would expect them to be using DDR3; I would assume "12GB" refers to 6x2GB DDR3?), but yeah, for an average budget PC, it's unnecessary.
People overreacting to Vista's RAM usage?

[Scorpus]

Originally Posted by Joe88

why not a 4830 which is 9800GT performance for the same price of a 9600GT

Yeah, that's probably a better choice if your tight on your budget

[vanycrsher]

what kind of graphics card should i get? a cheap one preferably?

Edit: so lurking around on the net, the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE is crap and its integrated into the mobo. i guess the the computer is great if there was only a good Graphics card. what would be best? i want to play games like Aion, WoW, TF2, CS:S, and alot of other games.

[JadeFox]

Originally Posted by vanycrsher

what kind of graphics card should i get? a cheap one preferably?

Edit: so lurking around on the net, the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE is crap and its integrated into the mobo. i guess the the computer is great if there was only a good Graphics card. what would be best? i want to play games like Aion, WoW, TF2, CS:S, and alot of other games.

Aion (im guessing) is by far the most graphicly instense, tf2 cs:s all run smoothly on older hardware since its based on the source engine which came out yearrrrrrrrrrrrs ago but still look fantastic (good work valve i luv ya)

basically which card run aion smoothly? i have no experience with this game but ive seen some in game footage and the graphics look fairly instense. Id say to play at max youd need a high ranking gfx card but id wait on others comments.

I think one you may be looking for and one others would recommend would be a 4850, they are excellent value for money and are a great card. cheap in the US too if thats where your from. We in the UK get raped on everything :/