What would be a good desktop computer to run star wars the old republic?

It'd be extremely tough to get a computer in that will run that game well in that price range. The closest you will get would be building it yourself. Since you're wanting a monitor and mouse/keyboard included you're really only looking at $400 to build that computer, and that's if you manage to find a decent mouse/keyboard and monitor for $100 which already is a hard task.

First thing you'll want is a high powered video card. Even people with higher end video cards have been having problems getting great frame rates on the game, and as you drop down you're going to lose even more performance. The least I would go to try to run this game at a enjoyable level would be a GTS450/6770 which are around $100.

Realistically to get good performance and to ensure that it stays good through any patches or upgrades the game receives(common in mmorpgs) I would recommend atleast a $200 card but the GTS450/5770 will run it okay. Even if you go with the lower end card at $100, that still only leaves you $300. For that you'd need to find a processor, motherboard, ram, power supply, hard drive, and case.

The cheapest you can get a case for is $20, so we'll go with that. Ram will be around $30. Since the budget is super tight you could go with a $30 power supply.

Usually you'd spend more than that, but you're trying to be super tight and will have to take chances with a cheap one with good reviews. So that's $80 for the Ram/PSU/case. $220 for a motherboard and CPU and harddrive.

Which one to get would depend on if the the game uses multiple cores and how many, and if your budget can stretch at all. If the game used more than two cores you could go with AMD in this budget and get better performance. However if it uses two or less cores then the i3 would be a great option.

If you can stretch your budget a bit I would recommend getting the i5-2400 atleast. The motherboard for either i3 or i5 would be atleast $50 for the bottom of the barrel. Nothing great or fancy but it will work.

The i5-2400 is 190, so altogether that'd be $240. The i3-2120 is $120 right now, so that'd be $170. The i3 is faster than a lot of AMD processors, but when it comes to applications that use 4 cores it gets left behind.

The i5 has the benefit of being faster, and having 4 cores. So with the i5-2400 you'd already be at $520 when adding in the monitor/keyboard/mouse/graphics card. The i3-2120 would be at $450.

Then lastly you'd need the hard drive, which is another problem because hard drive prices are high still due to flooding that shut down some hard drive plants. You're looking at around $80 unless you find a great deal. That's for a smaller hard drive too(160-250gb).

That'd put the i5 build at $600 and the i3 at $530 with almost everything. I would definitely recommend going with the i5, and if possible increasing the hard drive size because you'll run into problems quick with anything too small. Then save up for a $200+ card down the road and you'd be able to run most games well.

The i3 build is more budget friendly, but the processor is really limited and the cheap motherboard will not be compatible with Ivy Bridge so your only upgrade options down the line would be a better Sandy Bridge chip(i5/i7). All this and the build still isn't really complete though. You'd still want optical drives(DVD drives) unless you're computer savvy and can figure out how to install software from USBs and have a way to load it onto them.

You'd also need an Operating System to run on the computer, which can be expensive on its own. If you really wanted prebuilt your best best would be to wait until there was a good deal on a system on tiger direct or new egg, but remember it'd need to be around $300. Lower end computer usually ship with onboard graphics or low end cards so you'll need the $100 to update it, and the computers they sell don't usually come with monitors so you'll need to buy that.

Here's the closest I could find at the moment: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/... $399.99 Its an i3, but it's an older model that will not perform as well as the one I suggested above. Only 4gb Ram. But it does have a 500gb hard drive.

It also has optical drives and everything you need other than the video card. There's a combo deal on the website to bundle it with a 20" monitor for $509.98, but you'd still need a $100+ video card so it'd end up about $600.

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