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#1 Old 12th Jul 2013 at 9:26 PM
Default How is a computer like this likely to fair with Sims 3
Hi,

I'm looking to upgrade my PC, I play Sims 3 allot but more and more I'm having difficulty. unsurprising considering my graphics card is an outright no in every aspect found on the comparison page on this site. Even so the thing is just old and needs updating. Last time I got this so wrong so another opinion would be good.

Following are specs on one I found:

CPU: 1061 - AMD FX 6300 Black Edition
Operating System: Windows 8 64 Bit
Motherboard: 4130 - Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
RAM: 5041 - 8GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (2x4GB)
Hard Drive: 6027 - 500GB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 7003 - 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Graphics card: 8096 - NEW! NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB
Sound card: 10001 - Onboard 7.1 Audio
Case: 17070 - NEW! Xigmatek Asgard 382 Window
PSU: 18046 - NEW! 550W Corsair VS
Warranty: sc-1 - 3 Year SureCare Warranty

My budget is £500 ($755.30) my usage requirements are all ep's and all stuff packs but light on CC (interoperated by me as about 150 items plus a few mods). The graphics don't need to be top level, right now I would be happy if I could just play the game at a normal level just once without it crashing.

Help appreciated.
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ajaxsirius
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#2 Old 13th Jul 2013 at 10:37 AM
How much is the pc you mentioned?
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#3 Old 13th Jul 2013 at 10:49 AM
It would be £508
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#4 Old 13th Jul 2013 at 11:12 AM
The CPU is a bit weak (but still okay) but the price isn't bad. Maybe ask them what upgrade options are available for the CPU. Also I would go with Windows 7 64bit instead of Windows 8.
Montosaurous
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#5 Old 13th Jul 2013 at 1:45 PM
That would be more than good enough for Sims 3. It's not a demanding game at all, but micro stutters like crazy regardless of the specs.
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#6 Old 13th Jul 2013 at 5:10 PM
I could go higher with the CPU but that would go over mt budget even more than I have already done and the website automatically starts upgrading other components too.
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#7 Old 13th Jul 2013 at 8:46 PM
Any reasons in terms of performance why to go with windows 7 and not 8, I have tried 8 and found it ok.
ajaxsirius
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#8 Old 13th Jul 2013 at 10:02 PM
Windows 8 is still very new and some games have been known to have problems with it.
enterprise24
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#9 Old 14th Jul 2013 at 12:59 AM
Sims NEED very high single-thread performance CPU.
I do benchmark myself http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...d=1#post4190704
 
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