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Old 09-09-2007, 02:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I want to know your idea on specs of a low budget pc that would be mainly used for online gaming, cheerz!
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What kind of games? Budget?
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what do u mean by online games.. because your average Pentium 3 can do that with ease... unless you mean multiplayer games like CS:S or WoW or Halo
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or Maplestory or Runescape, depending on his preference
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those are included with regular online games.. but Maplestory is more my cup of tea i just thought of that Date Rape Music Video on Youtube

EDIT if you wanna see it YouTube - MapleStory MMVate Rape there it was... but the Maplestory characters are too cute.. make em less anime like!!!
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a low budget PC - means wont be spending on expensive hardware such as gfx cards...
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what do u mean by online games.. because your average Pentium 3 can do that with ease... unless you mean multiplayer games like CS:S or WoW or Halo
anyone heard of Ragnarok, MU, Khan, Knights online and the sort...

c'mon guys maple story are for sweet little girls :laughing:
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^ ya... thats why i play with my gf

but like said.. u don't need more than a Pentium 4 or so to play those kind of games.... so get these:

Pentium 4 Cedar Mill w/ Stock Intel Cooler
Gigabyte p35-ds3r
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no idea what an average P3 is but would that be a 1.0Ghz P3 w/ 128MB ram?
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well ya... but not 128mb RAM, maybe 384MB RAM
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