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Originally posted by Our_Benefactors:
I have it... I've beaten a whopping two levels so far. SO HARD.

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i just started playing, and beat world 1-1. trying 2-1, but the wolves are owning me. i am playing as a thief right now, so i guess i should've started as a knight or something with more endurance.

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Originally posted by dakrum:
The game is difficult until you get used to it - and then it still has a decent difficulty to it even when you are used to it. It's just a matter of going at a slower pace that isn't going to get you slaughtered.

It's not a game that's tough enough to force you to memorize many enemy locations though.

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i am still trying to figure out the proper setup for my character. i have beaten 1-1, 1-2, and 2-1. trying 3-1 right now, but i get butt owned by the wizard on 4F all the time.

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Starcraft 2 is coming out soon, and I heard building a computer is cheaper than buying a built one.

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Originally posted by Omega:
Anyone here has the time and the kindness and the will to help me build a gaming computer? (like telling me what to buy!)

Starcraft 2 is coming out soon, and I heard building a computer is cheaper than buying a built one.

Robert

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Starcraft 2 will run very well on a decent machine - you won't need to buy or build a gaming computer for that. You'll just need something decent from Dell at best and probably just replace the graphics card 2 years down the road. Of course, if you plan to play a lot more on it than that, then that's a different story.

Before I say anything else though, let me ask you these questions:

1) What type of games (or other games) do you plan on playing on your new machine? You don't have to worry about games before...say...2005 that much - I just think it would be a good idea to see what the recommended specs are now so that we can get a clear picture.

2) Will you need to do serious video editing on it?

3) Will you need to use SolidWorks or anything that completely relies on .NET on it?

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Originally posted by Omega:
Anyone here has the time and the kindness and the will to help me build a gaming computer? (like telling me what to buy!)

Starcraft 2 is coming out soon, and I heard building a computer is cheaper than buying a built one.

Robert

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http://www.hardware-revolution.com/500-gaming-computer-quad-core-cpu/

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Originally posted by dakrum:
Starcraft 2 will run very well on a decent machine - you won't need to buy or build a gaming computer for that. You'll just need something decent from Dell at best and probably just replace the graphics card 2 years down the road. Of course, if you plan to play a lot more on it than that, then that's a different story.

Before I say anything else though, let me ask you these questions:

1) What type of games (or other games) do you plan on playing on your new machine? You don't have to worry about games before...say...2005 that much - I just think it would be a good idea to see what the recommended specs are now so that we can get a clear picture.

2) Will you need to do serious video editing on it?

3) Will you need to use SolidWorks or anything that completely relies on .NET on it?

4) How fast do you need it? You can sometimes get away with murder during September/October when most of the pre-holiday sales (which usually are when the REAL deals occur or start) are happening.

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1) I play on playing Starcraft 2 mainly and other new blizzard game they could throw at me. I'm still hoping finding a game that can replace Counterstrike in term of playability

2) No video editing

3) Nope

4) I'd like to get it for starcraft 2 (basically 27th july). I bought recently a laptop (quadfour, hd radeon 5730, 4gb, rated 5.9 by windows on a scale of 7.9. Dont know what thats worth. But i still want a desktop to run games, since this laptop is mostly used for my work and school purpose. SC2 should run on it (which is why ive bought it in the first place.) I could wait for october/september deal, but my brother wont be happy, cause the other desktops are like 8-10 years old and cant likely play sc2

When you build your own computer, you will either have to purchase an operating system, exclusively use Linux, or...yeah. You will also want to be completely ready to spend an evening putting it together and making sure that all of your parts work. You will also have to deal with the fact that parts these days have high failure rates and cheap motherboards and power supplies are just that - cheap (and did I mention that cheap = having high failure rates?). When you buy a used part, you have no idea what kind of wear it has.

I second the idea of getting an AMD Athlon X4 620-630 series processor (unless you NEED a dual core or have a $1500 budget I don't know why anybody would buy anything else), 4GB RAM, and the ATI Radeon series graphics cards (if you need to upgrade it, you can always do it 2-3 years down the road). I'm afraid I don't know that much about specific hard drives or power supplies though - sorry. I don't see why the two suggested by the link BoT suggested wouldn't be satisfactory.

Your laptop should play SC2 (or any Blizzard game) with incredible ease. However, it will most likely wear some very valuable life out of it. If you are going to buy a desktop, then I would let it handle SC2 since your laptop is going to be far above average for quite a long time.

memory (4 or 8gb?)
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Still missing a box, a motherboard, and a graphic card.

A friend proposed this as a mid-range motherboard
ASUS P7P55D Pro LGA1156 P55 DDR3 3PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 PCI SLI CrossFireX 6SATA GBLAN 1394 Motherboard
$189.43
thoughts?

if the box and power supply take 150$
we are at 1122.27$

so that leaves about 400$ for a graphic card

what are your thoughts on this? What to change? (Price based on NCIX or Newegg)

Also, you probably don't need a high end case for it because you won't be overclocking anything.

You will also only need 4GB RAM. You won't notice a difference in how much RAM you have until you actually use a decent portion of it, and it doesn't sound like you are going to be running anything that requires tons of RAM. Even if you decide that 4GB isn't enough, please do not upgrade to 6GB - make sure that all of your RAM cards are the same (so go to 8GB).

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I'm still not convinced by the ram. I can probably find better at that price. Right now, I want to keep it around 1000. 1500 is clearly too much for the use I want to make of it. I'm not even sure if AMD1055 is the best choice, since I can take amd955 at 50$ cheaper. But then, one can argue : But for 50$ you get 6 cores and a better cpu.

I dont really need storage. I dont download a lot.

At 170$, i think the ATI 5770 is the cheapest I can get, and it seems to be a decent card

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Originally posted by MasterWolf:
Looking for a non-pokemon game for the DS that is fun and I can game for 100+ hours.

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professor layton 1 & 2.

one of the best game on any system.

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Originally posted by junichi:
professor layton 1 & 2.

one of the best game on any system.

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Puzzles? meh...

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Originally posted by MasterWolf:
Looking for a non-pokemon game for the DS that is fun and I can game for 100+ hours.

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Getting all 150 stars on Super Mario 64 DS I've found is fun and can consume many hours. Plus, the mini games can consume some time, too.

Similarly, you can't go wrong with Mario Kart Racing. The DS version ports old GBA and N64 racing tracks, plus adds many new ones. You can race against other computer opponents, race against other real life people, or simply play the time trials and see if you can beat yourself and once you get really good, beat hidden "ghosts" of other players with top scores.

There are some Final Fantasy titles you can get for the DS (although, I like FF3 over everything else available for the DS). I can give you more specific details if this is your area of interest; I've played just about every FF game that's available to GBA/DS.

You can get the Marvel VS TCG on the DS and if you're really into it, you can spend hours trying to play against different decks and earn points to get packs to build certain decks. It really does help if you played the real life card game and if you're a Marvel fan it's a bonus, but if you've played Magic at all, you should pick it up fairly quickly. In Magic, there are 5 colors, but in the Marvel VS TCG, there are teams, so you get to choose from Fantastic Four, Sinister Syndicate (update to Sinister Six), Spiderman and friends, X-Men, Avengers, and about a dozen more.