Railworks America

Well i am looking at new PC's now and i have contacted a place to buld one for me and this is what they came up with.....i am not so farmiliar with pc parts and stuff so i want your guyses opinions if this is an ok deal or not?

Custom Built Touch Gaming System
$1825 +taxes
Antec P280 Chassis w. front panel USB and audio
Thermaltake 750W power supply
Asus P8Z77-V-LX mainboard
Intel Core i5-2500k 3.30GHz 6Mb cache quad core cpu
8Gb DDR3 RAM Memory (2x 4Gb) Kingston HyperX 1600MHz
Intel 520 series 60Gb SSD + WD Caviar Black 1Tb in RAID0 cache
LG DVDRW optical drive
ASUS Radeon HD 7870 2Gb PCIE video card-------Upgrade video card to Radeon 7970 3Gb (+$225)
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
3 year Touch System Warranty

what about a Intel Core i7-3960X 4.5 Ghz

bnsf subdivision wrote:what about a Intel Core i7 4,5 Ghz

you are basicaly paying extra for something you will never use

well i guess your right but your pc would be realy pretty good to handle railworks ( i mean with the Intel Core i5)

thats what i wanted to hear! no more below 14fps 24/7 for me!!!

thecanadianrail wrote:thats what i wanted to hear! no more below 14fps 24/7 for me!!!

I wouldn't count on that. Upgrade because it's time, not for RW. You may be surprised that it won't make that much difference. Almost $2k with taxes is a lot. I think they are charging a little too much. Check with Mdurdan, he just got a custom built PC for a lot less, and with similar specs. I always build my own. it's a lot of fun and work but it's gratifying.

arizonachris wrote:

thecanadianrail wrote:thats what i wanted to hear! no more below 14fps 24/7 for me!!!

I wouldn't count on that. Upgrade because it's time, not for RW. You may be surprised that it won't make that much difference. Almost $2k with taxes is a lot. I think they are charging a little too much. Check with Mdurdan, he just got a custom built PC for a lot less, and with similar specs. I always build my own. it's a lot of fun and work but it's gratifying.

you must also place into fact that i live in the middle of....well too far from civilization to have much of a choice....i won't order something so expensive from online.

Check for external eSata ports. I'd want at least 2, preferably 4.
This way you can have an external disk toaster, ideal for backups.

Also get at much ram as you can afford.

well i ended up getting a new pc today, although it wasnt originaly what i said i was getting. i ended up picking up a labtop....but it is a very good labtop imo and should be worlds better than my desktop pc.

this labtop has the following stuff:

8gb ram
ADM A10-4600M APU
Radeon HD 2300mhz quad core
1tb hard drive
8192mb ddr3 sdram
and some sorta good radeon graphics card that i cant remember which one it is lol (2gb extra ram)

tell me what you all think of this?