Posted: 8/28/2008 1:43:06 PM EDT
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The wife has a thing for a game called Sims 2 and all of the expansion packs she has bought over the years has taken over my computer. I can't go 30 minutes without a bollon popping up telling me there isn't much space left. There has to be a system that can handle all of her stuff, music, youtube, everyday browsing! So what is it? What does arfcom recommend for these applications? |
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My wife's laptop with the slowest Core 2 Duo processor and a GeForce 4 equivalent video card can run The Sims 2 just fine. It's not a very demanding game by today's standards. If you're out of hard drive space, clean stuff out, get a bigger hard drive, or get an external one for media files as suggested above. But if you just want to have your computer to yourself, you can get a PC that can handle The Sims 2 just fine for stupid cheap. Just make sure it has a halfway decent video card and not that Intel 950 integrated graphics junk. |
Pretty basic needs you have. Just go to Best Buy and get an HP or Compaq that's on sale for around $500-$600. |
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If your gonna go with a new computer figure out how much memory you have now on current computer and then get one with at least double the memory. Im assuming this computer is a few years old. So you should be able to get double the memory without breaking your balls. Allmost any new graphics card should be able to run sims i perfer nvidia cards over ATI and others. External hard drives are allways nice to store stuff you wont use everyday and there not terribly expensive. If you have a laptop they can be a bit of an inconvience but desktop you could leave it pluged in 24/7. Dont play games or videos off the external. You will notice they run a bit slower. |
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