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Ravage

Canada?
Try: http://www.canadacomputers.com/ or http://www.newegg.ca/ (Newegg does not have any physical stores, in Canada at least)
I am actually in the process (I just have to wire everything up) of building my first. Now, I have spent over a year lurking various forums learning of different aspects until I finally figured I could spend the money, but doing it is not very hard at all. You should look up some youtube videos.
The guy from Future Shop is mostly correct, but it is only because you tend to buy higher quality parts or add fancier stuff.

You do have other options though. This place (http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/) is usually recommended for being able to buy relatively cheap custom PCs pre-built. I don't see any way to ship to Canada, but they do have resellers such as Future Shop and Best Buy. I do recommend building one yourself since it is fun and rewarding; a little nerve-racking but it's fun.

Anyhow, I would shop around first. You may be able to use that cyberpower site to get an idea of how a similar PC will run a certain game. Kind of a neat idea they've got going on thar. You could also ask me if you like; or ask on a tech site. Oh, the second post on here has a short list of stores in Canada (special and custom built stores are at the bottom).
I live in Ontario by the way.

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Q: How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
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DarkLloyd

Ravage wrote:

Canada?
Try: http://www.canadacomputers.com/ or http://www.newegg.ca/ (Newegg does not have any physical stores, in Canada at least)
I am actually in the process (I just have to wire everything up) of building my first. Now, I have spent over a year lurking various forums learning of different aspects until I finally figured I could spend the money, but doing it is not very hard at all. You should look up some youtube videos.
The guy from Future Shop is mostly correct, but it is only because you tend to buy higher quality parts or add fancier stuff.

You do have other options though. This place (http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/) is usually recommended for being able to buy relatively cheap custom PCs pre-built. I don't see any way to ship to Canada, but they do have resellers such as Future Shop and Best Buy. I do recommend building one yourself since it is fun and rewarding; a little nerve-racking but it's fun.

Anyhow, I would shop around first. You may be able to use that cyberpower site to get an idea of how a similar PC will run a certain game. Kind of a neat idea they've got going on thar. You could also ask me if you like; or ask on a tech site. Oh, the second post on here has a short list of stores in Canada (special and custom built stores are at the bottom).

I live in Ontario by the way.

ontarian here too man coincidence maybe? im not so sure lol i'll try to keep you in mind in the future wish there was some sort of freind list on here though

DarkLloyd

Ravage

I should also mention that 12 GB of RAM is way overkill and could hinder performance if they just filled up all the DIMM slots with RAM.

Sean Aaron ~ "The secret is out: I'm really an American cat-girl."
Q: How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the light bulb, the other to rotate the universe.

DarkLloyd

Ravage wrote:

I should also mention that 12 GB of RAM is way overkill and could hinder performance if they just filled up all the DIMM slots with RAM.

gahhhh no idea what your talking bout and im 20 years old it hurts my BRAIIIIIIIIIIN lol no idea what the heck the dimm slots are that is just new to me

DarkLloyd

Ravage

Motherboards wither have 4 DIMM slots or 6. These are what your RAM go into and are called dual channel and triple channel set-ups respectively. They run fastest with either 2 (for dual channel) sticks of RAM or 3 (for triple channel). While I do not know the magic behind the scenes that they use to get the separate sticks to run so well together, I do know that filling all the slots up will strain the power between all the sticks a bit more and they will not perform as quickly. Again, unless you are editing giant resolution photos in photoshop, 12 GB will not help. It is recommended to get at least 4GB, but 8 GB is nice to have. Anyhow, RAM is not the most important part of a computer (despite how they promote things that way).
That computer, I am guessing, has 6 sticks of 2 GB or 3 sticks of 4 GB in triple channel. Which I believe means it will not be one of Intel's newest processors (which blow everything else away).

I'm going to sleep now
Night shift kinda sucks that way

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A: Two, one to hold the light bulb, the other to rotate the universe.

V8_Ninja

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DarkLloyd

Ravage wrote:

Motherboards wither have 4 DIMM slots or 6. These are what your RAM go into and are called dual channel and triple channel set-ups respectively. They run fastest with either 2 (for dual channel) sticks of RAM or 3 (for triple channel). While I do not know the magic behind the scenes that they use to get the separate sticks to run so well together, I do know that filling all the slots up will strain the power between all the sticks a bit more and they will not perform as quickly. Again, unless you are editing giant resolution photos in photoshop, 12 GB will not help. It is recommended to get at least 4GB, but 8 GB is nice to have. Anyhow, RAM is not the most important part of a computer (despite how they promote things that way).
That computer, I am guessing, has 6 sticks of 2 GB or 3 sticks of 4 GB in triple channel. Which I believe means it will not be one of Intel's newest processors (which blow everything else away).

I'm going to sleep now
Night shift kinda sucks that way

theres always something that blows something else away every year maybe i should just stick to consoles and forget about the star wars mmo and other interesting stuff and just live the false hope that it may come to ps3 or something someday in my mind that is

ive only plan to use the computer for games and going on the internet

anything to do with music except maybe just listening to it i can do without because im hard of hearing with a cochlear implant

video editing as cool as it sounds im unlikely to use it nor do i have any plans too unless a career or job that involves helping people makes it so for learning in school to get the job for which i havent decided yet

pictures well i got a camera it doesnt take much to just put them on there and place it on facebook or the likes lol

well thats about it i cant think of anything else people use computer for so what im bassically saying is my computer will be purely a gaming pc with a side of internet viewing for game news etc etc lol so you know what ravage your right what i listed seem a bit too excessive and way more then what i'll need for something as simple as i only plan to use it for

DarkLloyd

DarkLloyd

Xkhaoz3D wrote:

irken004 wrote:

Swiket wrote:

So someone snooped around in the Steam registry and it's a possibility that Valve is working on a free-to-play version of TF2.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=28696648&postc...

WUT.

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i dont think team fortress 2 is a subscription game so it already was free to play to begin with lol

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DarkLloyd

Xkhaoz

@BlackFira you paid $10 for it and you had it, it's not an mmo

http://steamcommunity.com/id/xkhaoz

V8_Ninja

Swiket wrote:

So someone snooped around in the Steam registry and it's a possibility that Valve is working on a free-to-play version of TF2.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=28696648&postc...

I don't really think so. I mean, I guess Valve has everything in-place for a free-to-play version of TF2 to exist (hats, buying weapons that normally come with achievements, etc.), but I don't really see it happening.

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DarkLloyd

Xkhaoz3D wrote:

@BlackFira you paid $10 for it and you had it, it's not an mmo

thats what i mean lol but i just went ahead of my self without thinking but i had not bought it yet

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DarkLloyd

irken004

Mickeymac wrote:

irken004 wrote:

Monday Night Combat is 75% off today.

Again?

I don't remember it being 75% off before, though it's a great deal at that price.

Ravage

I don't recall it being $3.75 either. Did they lower the price recently, or am I just misremembering?

Sean Aaron ~ "The secret is out: I'm really an American cat-girl."
Q: How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the light bulb, the other to rotate the universe.

Ravage

Could be DOTA 2.

Got my computer running yesterday. Everything is working fine from what I can tell without an operating system. Cousin is going to courier a DVD with that on it this week (he has free access to most Microsoft products, the ones involved in business anyhow).

Edited on by Ravage

Sean Aaron ~ "The secret is out: I'm really an American cat-girl."
Q: How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the light bulb, the other to rotate the universe.

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