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Upgrade Help for Wildstar
Hey guys can you help me out i wanna play wildstar when it comes out i am not sure if my system will play
i got
procesor:intel g540 2.5ghz
gpu:nvidia 8800gt 512mb
ram:2gb ddr3 1333 mhz
mb: lga 1155
psu:400 w real power
can you suggest what to get to play Wildstar medium setting tnxx upfront to all who help
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1) What's your budget?
2) Is that one 2 GB memory module or two 1 GB modules?
3) Exactly what power supply and case do you have? For the power supply, I want the brand name and model. If you don't know, then open up the case and read the label.
Main Game: Eldevin (Plat0nic)
2nd Game: Path of Exile (Platonic Hate)
www.systemrequirementslab.com
With the memory upgrade, you'll be barely over the minimum specs, assuming that you've got a 64-bit OS. But if that's not good enough to play the game, you won't be able to afford an upgrade that can, anyway.
I honestly wouldn't risk it.
I might be wrong, but i believe wildstar will have to be bought yeah?
Even with a 2 gig ram upgrade, i very much doubt it'll run all that well.
I second the Ram upgrade. Regardless of wildstar thats worth doing. In regards to Wildstar it will be worth it also.
Either way it will help your system.
I'm not sure if your system will play it or not either, primarily because it's still closed beta, and we haven't seen any indication of release client performance, which often varies widely from the beta client performance. Odds are your computer will play Wildstar with medium-low settings outside crowded areas (mainly due to the lowish resolution of your monitor, but until the game is actually released - your rolling the dice.
With the monitor you have now, I would just hold off until it releases, unless your just wanting to get a new general gaming computer (which would play Wildstar very well, along with everything else); including upgrading to a better monitor with a higher resolution.
Once the game releases, you'll see a slew of data -- if it works better on AMD vs Intel, AMD vs nVidia, how much CPU/GPU you really need to throw at the game to get it to run well, how RAM/Disk intensive/sensitive it is, what the difference between low, medium, high, and MAX graphics settings is, etc. Then, if your only desire is to ever play Wildstar, you can custom tailor the computer just for it.
Not sure why you keep asking, but just run the systemrequirementslab.com and you will find out if you can run it or not. Most like not with that system. Do you have a 64bit OS? if not upgrading your ram will not be sufficient as the game minimal settings is 4gb ram and if you are on 32bit OS then you will not be able to get all of the 4gb of ram unless you do a work around. Which I feel is to much of a hassle.
I wanted to play Wildstar but am still on 32bit. Have both 64 and 32bit but at the time I just didn'thave enough trust to make my system 64bit several years ago and now I just wait a few months before building a new system which will be 64bit.
What about trying to take corporate computers for what ever resale price they offer. I always wondered what corporations did with their pc's when they re furbished their offices with new equipment such as PCs, and where all that old equipment would go.
Of course if there is a large enough salvage value, a company would nto just throw it away, but it also means there are a lot of computers which are out dated enough that nobody would want to buy even for personal use, but should have parts that are of value... for example the PSU, the mobo, and really if any of the used pcs can be bought under a price that they are worth is the goal, and trying to make a profit to resell it.
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That's not going to work. Companies tend to buy the cheapest computers they can get, and then they use them until they break or are abysmally slow and their IT has to push for two years to get them replaced. You would be lucky to find a processor that's less than five years old in one of those systems. It would be nearly impossible to find anything decent for gaming.
OP: Your entire system is simply too old. I remember building a similar system around the time the Xbox 360 was released. It might have been a year after that, but it has been so long I can't remember. It is time to build a new computer. There is no getting around that by upgrading a part or two.
With regard to corporate resales:
Yeah, our company runs them into the ground; either they are broken and not worth repairing, or they are not longer compatible with whatever software we need to run. We still have computers in use that are over 15 years old, which is scary.
Hardware is a commodity, the value of the system is in what productivity it can add or function it performs in the organization, and that's usually all in the software.
And even the systems that still run and are just being replaced, we don't sell them. We donate them for the tax write-off, which is worth a lot more than the amount of cash we could get out of them in their typical condition. That, and job banks and places that help the homeless and such, they get something that can get online and help people work on resumes and find jobs - which is about the only thing the computers that still run can really do.
I'll add that most corporate use doesn't need much in the way of performance. Some need so little performance that they're going to "thin" clients that are basically nettops that handle a bunch of stuff off in some corporate cloud.
Speaking of which, if all of your data is in the cloud, you don't necessarily need much in the way of client reliability. Buy too many computers, and when one breaks, grab an identical one off the shelf, plug it in to replace the one that broke, and send the broken one off for warranty service--or if it's old enough, just junk it and buy something newer.
You can do that if your organization needs 100 computers for equivalently undemanding use and it's very unlikely that 20 will break in the same week. But it's not suitable for consumer use where one computer failing means 100% of your computers have failed.