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rocketassistedkea · 09-29-10, 03:55 AM

Guess no one knows? Or maybe I'm just invisible, I don't know. I understand I must sound foolish. Over the years I've spent my money on travel, study and the like...not thousands on a computer, that would be obsolete in a few years anyway. Just as my dad [a photographer] didn't bother with digital cameras until they passed the 6 megapixel mark...so now; a computer's [finally] looking genuinely interesting to me.
I'll try a different approach; what's the recommended system requirements for SHV...with an intel-chip [as everyone in this city seems to want to sell me intel stuff, plus all the sales seem to be intel based...and it also looks like the better chip, with hyper-threading/higher ranked benchmarks etc]. Will an i3 350 [laptop] chip be sufficient? If not...what if I double the recommended power of the graphics card, from 512-to 1gb? Or should I go for an i3 540-which outperforms the i5 720? It's pretty confusing.

Thanks.

09-29-10, 03:55 AM	#4
rocketassistedkea Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: New Zealand. Yes...that's the bit of spit on the bottom of the earth, that's about to fall off. Posts: 5 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	?? Guess no one knows? Or maybe I'm just invisible, I don't know. I understand I must sound foolish. Over the years I've spent my money on travel, study and the like...not thousands on a computer, that would be obsolete in a few years anyway. Just as my dad [a photographer] didn't bother with digital cameras until they passed the 6 megapixel mark...so now; a computer's [finally] looking genuinely interesting to me. I'll try a different approach; what's the recommended system requirements for SHV...with an intel-chip [as everyone in this city seems to want to sell me intel stuff, plus all the sales seem to be intel based...and it also looks like the better chip, with hyper-threading/higher ranked benchmarks etc]. Will an i3 350 [laptop] chip be sufficient? If not...what if I double the recommended power of the graphics card, from 512-to 1gb? Or should I go for an i3 540-which outperforms the i5 720? It's pretty confusing. Thanks.