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[Lordred289]

1) What's your budget $700 US

2) When are you going to buy your PC?
Within the next two months.

3) What is your computer type?
e. Laptop

4) What's the main purpose of the PC?
A mix of LAN gaming, web browsing, low level 3d editing, and photo editing.

5) When do you intend to upgrade your PC?
I will later down the road get a SSD for it when the price of 256gb has gone under 200$

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7) Do you prefer any brand or manufacturer (Intel/AMD, NVidia/ATI, Asus/Gigabyte,...)?
Lenovo, they produce very sturdy laptops, my old T31 finnaly died after 8 years of abuse.

8) Are you going to overclock?
No, it is a laptop, that would be foolish

9) Where are you going to buy the components from? Do you have any preference over some store?
Newegg, Amazon, or direct from provider.

10) Will you be assembling the system yourself or will it come pre-built?
It will be pre-built

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12) Processor
a. Green Low Power
Sub 45watt

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15) Storage
a. 1 drive (Indicate capacity)
Capacity is a non issue, I have external drives for that.

16) Optical Drives
a. DVD writer

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Aditional Info:
I have been strongly looking into the Llano A6-3400M system, it seams like the perfect blend of a quad core and GPU for everything I plan to do. Would be able to play any game with out the requirement of a descret card, and with four cores, even though based on the ageing K10.5 platform, should be able to run anything even though it is clocked at 1.4ghz


This is what I have been considering.
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16834246150

[dirtylarryuk]

Ithink your spot on, some decent applications will work on it and most games (within reason) would be OK on this rig and it's hitting all the right boxes for the price tag.

Normally for that money its either good CPU or good GPU but never both so this deal is quite rare and although by todays standards both are low-mid range they offer in combo the best of both worlds for the price. The Screen is 720p (well 768 16:9) but that also reduces the load on the GPU alot, as many laptops now have 1080p screens but still very low range GPU's which makes even old games dog slow.

So although Crysis 2 DX11 with 8X Af is going to be a no no, TF2 CS:S COD4 etc should be playable within reason, (as long as the mobile drivers are ok) so that 100's of games and those specs are fine for most apps as well within reason.

Adding a SSD later just helps even more.

LED screen as well nice for battery life.

The only thing is to check the GPU for either known mobile driver issues for games and for FPS figures for games you might play just to check.

As far as I can see the 6250g (the IGP on that CPU) is 400 MHz and 300 shaders and seems to bench around the same as a 9200 on a Ion and better than the IGP's on the Intels so as long as casual games are your thing or older games unless you up your budget by 200-300 Dollars its going to be hard to beat.

Edited by dirtylarryuk, 11 August 2011 - 09:13 AM.

[Derbixrace]

what about this one http://www.newegg.co...N82E16834215106

it got a much better CPU and GPU for not much more, its 50$ over your budget though but it seems great for the price.

[Lordred289]

Submitted the order for the Lenovo, I got it for 584.36 Tax and all.