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Saturday, February 8th 2014, 10:44pm

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So I'm wanting to buy a new computer. My main use for it is Office work, but I want to be able to play RoM on it as well. I would actually like to be able to run at least two clients on high graphics along with an open browser for YouTube or Pandora without any lag.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-pavilion-…JOUlLjDtR0yY7Rx

Would this computer be able to do that? If not, any recommendations? Please keep in mind that I am not a computer guy. I couldn't even tell you what kind of computer I'm using now or even what kind of graphics card I put in it. I just remember it was around $150 and bought about a year ago.
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Sunday, February 9th 2014, 12:42am

The integrated graphics card is going to bottleneck your framerate and you will experience some lag due to that. My suggestion would be to find something with a dedicated card

OR
It looks like you have an available pci express slot so you can add a dedicated card if you want. You might need to also swap out the pwr supply seeing as most pre built systems come with a lower end power supply that provides just enough to run the system.

Since your processor is amd id recommend a radeon dedicated card. 750 watt supply should be more than enough.
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Sunday, February 9th 2014, 3:11am

Integrated 8570D is not horrible, but yeah, will be a bottleneck. If you have a current card better than that (check windows system info or run DXdiag, then google for benchmark values), transplant it. If not, maybe video card upgrade would need to be carved out of the budget.
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Sunday, February 9th 2014, 4:41am

I did that "Dxdiag" thing, and I think I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 640. Am I going to have to upgrade that?
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Monday, February 10th 2014, 12:43am

It is OK. Not the latest and greatest, but more than enough. I have comparable card (Radeon 6670, a bit lesser card but in same ballpark) and have no issues.
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Monday, February 10th 2014, 1:41am

Just a suggestion, but based off of what he said in first post, his current NVIDIA card is a dedicated card. My suggestion would be to find an identical system to the one you linked, but find one with an intel, and then drop your NVIDIA card in it. I really don't know if dropping an NVIDIA card into a machine with an AMD processor is a good idea tbh, but I like playing things safe.
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Monday, February 10th 2014, 7:34pm

Quoted from "Rukifellth2792"

Just a suggestion, but based off of what he said in first post, his current NVIDIA card is a dedicated card. My suggestion would be to find an identical system to the one you linked, but find one with an intel, and then drop your NVIDIA card in it. I really don't know if dropping an NVIDIA card into a machine with an AMD processor is a good idea tbh, but I like playing things safe.

The maker of the card or processor is not really important, any card will work with any processor.

Having said that though, I personally prefer using chipset and video cards from the same makers, they just seem to run smoother that way. Since I normally run AMD processors, I end up with pure AMD systems, ATI card ATI chipset etc.

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