Advice on new machine for playing flash games please

Basil1234

also gotta consider the traffic running on the sites you getting the flash games from as well such as facebook and the amount of traffic they will have at peek times on there server as well. basically flash games will always be dependent on the flow of the web from them to you and bottlenecks in between.

jaydeeuk1

The atom cpu, including dual core, can have problems playing flash games smoothly if they're cpu intensive. A dual core celeron upwards would be perfectly fine though.

VoucherMan

Thanks for all the comments/suggestions.

I think I'll end up getting one like this mentioned on another thread. At least that way I get to keep my laptop.

I'm having a go at cleaning some of the unwanted programs running in the background from my laptop & it's already a lot better.

JasX

VoucherMan wrote: »

Thanks for all the comments/suggestions.

I think I'll end up getting one like this mentioned on another thread. At least that way I get to keep my laptop.

I'm having a go at cleaning some of the unwanted programs running in the background from my laptop & it's already a lot better.

hmmmm, I'm a little suspicious of that one, seems to be a "lets get a Bluray drive (£40) and build as cheap a PC as we can get away with around it" type

thats a very old and basic graphics card too, I'd look at getting a more balanced machine and if you really want Bluray pickup a drive later on when they've dropped in price from £40-£50 to £20-30 odd...

Note instlling optical drives is much much easier than upgrading RAM

jaydeeuk1

I think the spec is wrong on that listing, afaik, the phenom can't be paired with a geforce 7000 series IGP. Most likely a radeon 3200, or possibly a 4200/4290. If so, not a bad little machine.

JasX

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

afaik, the phenom can't be paired with a geforce 7000 series IGP.

Nah they can quite readily go together, just takes a motherboard with a Nvidia chipset and AMD socket, something (fairly crappy and old) like this

http://www.entaonline.com/product/Gigabyte-GAM68MS2P-Motherboard-Phenom-II-Socket_GA-M68M-S2P.htm

jaydeeuk1

Ah right didn't realise they made nvidia chipsets with support for phenoms. In that case, yep avoid. The 7000 series doesn't have HD acceleration capabilities. Agree with jasx, very strange pairing having a half decent CPU with a very old chipset.