Odd question

[PC_Caveman]

If anyone familiar with the Game Age of Conan, my friend wants me to help him build a new rig just for this game. How cheap could i go with a budget for him? I was thinking at least $1,000 due to him needing a complete build, Tower, Monitor and Mouse/Keyboard. Any advise on a cheap build that can run it at least medium setting would help.

 

[RicoDirenzo]

If anyone familiar with the Game Age of Conan, my friend wants me to help him build a new rig just for this game. How cheap could i go with a budget for him? I was thinking at least $1,000 due to him needing a complete build, Tower, Monitor and Mouse/Keyboard. Any advise on a cheap build that can run it at least medium setting would help.

My Son plays this game. The downloadable compressed file is 9.8 GB and it expands, wiht updates, to 31.6 gb. He uses one of my machines which runs a Phenom and dual 3850's in crossfire and he gets lag<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<I'm thinking it's a resource hog of a game! You can't go cheap with a game like this one!

 

[Iron Feet]

To give you an idea, my build seen in my sig cost right around $1000 minus the monitor, and AoC has been running fantastic on it.

 

[harnar123]

q6600 - 220
, antec 900 - 110
, 4gb crucial tracers - 120
Decent 22" - 250
7200.11 500gb - 100
pc power and cooling 610w - 110
dvd burner - 30
xfx 8800gt 256mb - 130 before mail in rebates
p35-ds3l - 90
shipping um what would you guys guess 40? (I would try and get the case at a store or ebay to offset the shipping cost for all that)

k that is 1160, you could get 2gb of ram to make it 1100, then step down the processor to e2200 as long as your willing to overclock that I my best guess. Feel free to correct me!

 

[PC_Caveman]

i guess i just needed a direction with cpu, mobo and graphics. everything else is usually preference. I was just wondering if a PC under $1,000 could handle it, but i guess not, lol. no biggie.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

This system comes to $942 before mirs and should be able to run Age of Conan with high settimgs.

Newegg.com - SAMSUNG Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 18X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe - CD / DVD Burners

Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER Elite 330 RC-330-KKN1-GP Black SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases

Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250310AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives

Newegg.com - SAMSUNG 920NW Black 19" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 700:1 - LCD Monitors

Newegg.com - ECS N9600GT-512MX EDM GeForce 9600GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

Newegg.com - CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W ATX12V V2.2 Power Supply 90 - 264 V UL, CUL, CE, CB, FCC Class B, TUV, CCC, C-tick - Power Supplies

Newegg.com - Logitech Value 100 Black 104 Normal Keys PS/2 Standard Keyboard - Keyboards

Newegg.com - Logitech SBF-90 Black 3 Buttons 1 x Wheel PS/2 Wired Optical Mouse - Mouse

Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale 2.53GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - CPUs / Processors

Newegg.com - Microsoft Windows Vista 32-Bit Home Premium for System Builders Single Pack DVD - Operating Systems

 

[wafflehammer]

My Son plays this game.

the game isn't even out yet

the builds everyone is posting should be able to handle it.

My recommendations would be at least a core 2 duo and a 9600gt/8800gt.

The min. to run the game is like a 6800 i think..and a 3.0ghz P4

 

[Iron Feet]

the game isn't even out yet

The open beta has been available to play for a while now. That's where we've been playing until the official release comes out. Great game btw.

 

[Akubane]

Yeah awesome game. puddle-jumpers build will look good on that 19". Only thing I'd change is the hard-drive. Its older and a bit slower than the latest seagates. Also ago of conan itself is massive, so with that and windows alone you're out a good chunk of that HD. the 7200.11 500GB is great bang for buck hd if you can get it.

 

[Sora]

I agree with puddle jumpers build except I recommend buying a Rosewill RP550V2-S-SL for 59.99 and spending that money plus 5 more to upgrade to this.

Newegg.com - XFX PVT88PYDF4 GeForce 8800GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

A slightly more powerful card and honestly the RP550 has 2 more amps on the rail's with good stable power. I owned one (still have it) and it was a nice PSU.

However also honestly I could build a PC that would run Age on Conan on medium setting for less...the build that puddle recommended with my choice of PSU and an 8800GT everything overclocked will run high.