Budget pc build

solleks · #1 08-26-2017, 04:27 PM

Ok so I am wanting to build a PC or buy a laptop to exclusively play project 1999. I want to have the most cost effective build and spend as little as possible while not sacrificing p99 performance at all. Just wondering if anyone had any advice.

loramin · #2 08-26-2017, 04:48 PM

On one end, you could use a ten-year old laptop from Craig's list and still run EQ (a 15+ year old game) just fine. On the other end, you could go the way I went a couple years ago, get something like a Geforce GTX 870m (maybe $500 when I bought it?), and literally set every single graphic setting set to max (including 1920x1200 resolution), except for shadows (not sure why, but my card has trouble with shadows).

So really the difference between between A) the integrated motherboard graphics card that you'll get with even a cheap laptop, and B) a high end card that you'll probably have to buy custom installed if you want it on a new laptop (sellers on Amazon offer this), is just the graphics settings: more $$ on the graphics card = more particles when someone cats a spell. That's pretty much it.

The only other thing I'd recommend is an SSD drive or a lot of RAM. An SSD drive will let you load noticeably faster when you zone-in, and if you have enough RAM you can use software like RAMDisk to make a "hard disk in memory" (and from what I hear your zones will load super fast then).

Ella`Ella · #3 08-26-2017, 06:07 PM

https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds

You can get away with the media elite - just switch out HDD for SSD.

mcoy · #4 08-26-2017, 06:46 PM

I can't recommend this site enough:

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

-Mcoy

mcoy · #5 08-26-2017, 06:47 PM

Also, I played on an eeepc for a while... As loramin said, it's an old game.

-Mcoy

Zaela · #6 08-26-2017, 06:53 PM

You probably don't need a dedicated graphics card at all. Anything from Intel with integrated graphics released in the last couple years would be enough.

loramin · #7 08-26-2017, 07:00 PM

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I can't recommend this site enough:

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

-Mcoy

That's a really cool site, thanks for sharing. I have absolutely no need for it at the moment, and yet just looking at it makes me want to purchase new hardware ...