Need Gaming Computer Suggestions

I'm guessing your going with sound built in the motherboard?

Without looking at the motherboard and YEAH, the graphics card is probably SUB PAR, this looks like it should be a nice speedy system. The fastest AMD CPU I have is pretty fast, and benchmarks put it in i5 territory. It only has 6 cores. YOUR system, with 8cores, looks like it is in i7 territory. Still, the card will be a bottleneck, for hires CD quality gaming.

Steve

I use my laptop for gaming, the Satellite P855-S5200. Of course, these days I'm only playing rollercoaster tycoon on it, so not sure how it would run those RPG's people love to play or Call of Duty 627.

Steve,
Why do you feel the vid card might be sub par? The reason I ask is I understand AMD bought ATI a few years back and therefore I would think that the cards would give best performance with the processor.

Joe,
I don't know,I understand that Roller Coaster Tycoon is pretty fast paced and intesive too!

The specs look good. Should be able to smoothly handle any game in the market today.

Kim,

Companies often have various versions. Even if AMD bought ATI, and they used the absolutely BEST graphic card, you can bet they have lots of older versions. Intel sold the 8080 for DECADES! an 80386 would be better in almost every case, but is more expensive, hungry, and complicated. And motherboards MAY have great cards built in but most, last I knew anyway, have lower end cards. In fact, last I knew, the highest end cards were probably better left OFF the motherboard due to size and heat.

As I indicated though, I followed only techniques and abilities for a time. And that was last like about a decade ago. Given the state of the art THEN though, and how programs were being written, you can be almost certain that they are STILL changing things. The first cards used character generators. THEN they went to graphics, that kept increasing, which meant a desire for more colors and higher resolutions, and the games got to be WAY to complex so they went to 2D and 3D CPU commands and then to sprites moving processing off to the graphics card which then started getting MUCH more complex. And that is about where I stopped watching.

It IS ironic! ATARI came up with a methodology in the late 70s, and almost NOBODY copied it. Probably, because they could work around it because things were so inefficient, and it was cheaper. Anyway, NOW that technology is on IBM! i guess it is appropriate that a computer company uses technology from a computer that was made for games when people start wanting the technology to play games.

Steve