Is This The Right PC for Railworks?

[fraserm]

Another PC I saw, so I am comparing it:

1: Is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with TPM V1.2 good for TS2014 and TSX enabled?

2: Is the 750M better than a Intel HD 4000?

Thanks for the help.

Narada - the answer to your first question will really have to wait until TS2014 is released tonight, but the 750M should be good enough to give you acceptable results. I have a 540M in my 2-year old laptop and it's not quite up to the task of TSX in TS2013. In other respects it's just fine. TPM v1.2 is a security protocol and has nothing to do with graphics performance.
Second Q - Intel HD 4000 is a built-in graphics protocol that runs on the main CPU and has lower performance than the nVidia card/chip and should never be considered sufficient for any kind of gaming.

Hope this helps!
Best,
Marc

[Haystack]

Another PC I saw, so I am comparing it/Q&Aing it:

1: Is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with TPM V1.2 good for TS2014 and TSX enabled?

2: Is the 750M better than a Intel HD 4000?

Thanks for the help.

I'm really confused on if you're wanting a laptop or a desktop. All of the cards you've been asking about are mobile graphics cards, but you said you want a desktop?

[arizonachris]

Some of these are in all-in-ones. But for all-in-ones, what else matters than the graphics card for gaming?

Any PC, weather it's a laptop, all-in-one or desktop, needs a few things for RW to run well. Fairly high end graphics card with at least 1Gb dedicated VRAM (video memory) (2Gb or more is better) and a good amount of system RAM, 4Gb minimum (8Gb better) and a fairly high end processor, maybe 3Ghz or better. Quad cores are nice to have these days but RW still only uses one core. (could change with TS2014?).

An all-in-one is basically a laptop with a much bigger screen, may have touch capability, and are expensive without having matching performance. Desktops, IMHO of course, will always have the best performance per dollar. So an all-in-one uses a laptop type video card which may or may not be upgradeable. The GT750M is a nice mobile card. Not sure if you can get it in 2Gb or just 1Gb VRAM. Like Marc said, that Intel HD4000 is not a good gaming solution at all.

If you go with 8Gb or RAM, you will need a 64 bit operating system. Good luck.

[arizonachris]

HP is probably the best in All-in-one's but for that $2,200 I could build a system that could run circles around my current desktop, which is no slouch. And the specs on that all-in-one are impressive. Just depends on what form factor you want I guess.

I'm not thrilled with Touch or with Win 8, but as I said before, it's just my humble opinion. A guy on my tech support site has Win 8 and a very high end desktop and he games hard with no problems. His complaint is Windows took away the "Start" button on the desktop.

[Haystack]

Do you really want an all in one? For able half the price of the one you posted you can get something that will blow it out of the water.

[Haystack]

The storage doesn't really matter unless we were talking about an ssd which in your case we're not. If its enough storage for your needs (I'm sure it is) then 2TB is great. 8 gbs of ram is perfect. Can't speak for the 750M though.

[Chacal]

It is good to take a backup once in a while. Plan for storage space on your backup disk too.

[arizonachris]

Seems like you are really looking at the all-in-one. Are the drives 2x1Tb, or is it one single drive? I would get two seperate drives so that if the primary drive fails, you have the backup drive to boot from. As other said, do regular backups. Use Acronis True Image, it will make the first image then it will make update backups with only new info that has been added. Nice system. Guess you'll find out about the 750M. It is a low end 7xx Nvidia mobile GPU chip, a 760 or 770 would be better, but I don't know if they make those in a mobile chip.

[Bananarama]

GTs are generally budgeted versions of GTX cards. They are nevertheless a good value, just so long as you don't overlook a GTX in your search.

[arizonachris]

GTX cards for all-in-one's start at the GTX660M, which is a much better card.

I have read that the GT650M is adequate for TSX use, but don't expect to run at high settings.a lot depends on how much VRAM (video memory) the card has built in. For TSX to work well, look for a 2Gb part. 1Gb is marginal. Some 650M's only have 512Mb of DDR3 RAM, not a good card for any games at all.

[arizonachris]

Specs on that Dell look OK, but I still balk at the price. Interesting the Windows Score (overall) is the same as my desktop, but the graphics are lower than mine. You should do OK with that, Narada.

[Importz2k1]

Do you really want an all in one? For able half the price of the one you posted you can get something that will blow it out of the water.

I would have to agree, for the price he is looking to pay for that all in one, I could build a monster that would put that thing to shame.
But if that's what he wants then, to each his own.