CNET Forums: Message List - Need help with gaming desktop advice! http://forums.cnet.com/ The latest posts in Need help with gaming desktop advice!. CNET Forums: Message List - Need help with gaming desktop advice! http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/cobd/cnet/cnet_88x31.gif http://forums.cnet.com/ 31 88 CNET.com CNET http://www.cnet.com Need help with gaming desktop advice! Hi there, I have been interested in gaming for as long as I can remember, but have never been fortunate enough to go as ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306591.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306591.html 02 May 2012 16:20:59 PDT What's in the desktop now? Sometimes all I need is bump the RAM, othertimes I'll pop in a big PSU and a video card from THE LIST!<br><br>The list? ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306622.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306622.html 02 May 2012 17:50:29 PDT Not sure the contents I must have read that &quot;list&quot; at least 3 times now. I just don't really know what all the technical mumbo jumbo ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306671.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306671.html 02 May 2012 23:16:09 PDT I didn't write about overclocking. There is no system today that will not lag.<br><br>You'll have to wait for something to happen in the next few years. S ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306690.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306690.html 02 May 2012 23:19:43 PDT I checked So I checked the specs on her computer, It's an Acer Aspire E380 running a dual core AMD athlon processor, 2304MB ram<br ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306934.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306934.html 03 May 2012 12:22:00 PDT 256MB RAM? You'll want more. <a href="http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/desktop/0000/Acer/AspireE380/AspireE380sp2.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofoll ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306937.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306937.html 03 May 2012 12:39:04 PDT Interesting... So there is no way to make this a top of the line gaming pc? Basically what you're saying is I can give it a boost, but ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306958.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306958.html 03 May 2012 13:10:20 PDT Well we could Change the power supply, motherboard, CPU, add ram, get a top end video card but what did we salvage? Not much and then ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306959.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306959.html 03 May 2012 13:15:27 PDT hm Well that's all fine and dandy, I will probably do that regardless, but If that system can't be GREAT, then I may just b ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306974.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306974.html 03 May 2012 13:31:29 PDT Why I wrote 256MB That looks like what it came with.<br><br>--&gt; For about 30 bucks this machine would be many times better. I'd do tha ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306990.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306990.html 03 May 2012 13:35:58 PDT Oh Okay well that's good. For under 100 bucks I may do that. But I don't really need something better, as I have an i5 lapt ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306991.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5306991.html 03 May 2012 13:42:31 PDT Let's compare the i5 laptop to this desktop? I wonder if the desktop with the pop in the 30 buck solution would be better or worse. I'd have to see what we are comp ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5307083.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5307083.html 03 May 2012 18:11:12 PDT Specs of the laptop The laptop is an Asus K52Jc, it's running windows 7 home premium with an intel core i5 processor 2.40GHz 4 CPUs and has ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5307098.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5307098.html 03 May 2012 20:49:56 PDT Link, comment. That Asus has the Geforce 310 <a href="http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Versatile_Performance/K52JC/#specifications" target ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5307122.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5307122.html 03 May 2012 21:38:46 PDT Thanks a lot I see your point, and interesting use of the word &quot;foray&quot;. Thanks a lot for your expertise, I will try and put ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5307113.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5307113.html 03 May 2012 21:50:07 PDT I few ideas fpr a Desktop that can run Skyrim on Ultra. Hey, <br><br>I recently built my own desktop capable of running Skyrim with multiple mods installed on Ultra settings wi ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5307937.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7586_102-5307937.html 06 May 2012 05:36:20 PDT