would this play rift?

[Chickat]

will a 4-500 dollar walmart desktop play rift at all?

i have a 500 dollar give or take a few budget, and i dont know how to build my own.


also i had a link but apparently i haven't posted enough.

[Redsniper]

I'm going to say no. The chances of one of them having a good video card is pretty low for that price. When you get enough posts replay here and we will see for sure, but it just doesn't seem possible right now.

[ribz]

It might play the game, but very poorly. What's the computer? Post the SKU or model number? I can just look it up.

[Marrowwind]

What ever you do don't buy a retail PC from Wal-mart/bestbuy/ect. You can get one prebuilt that is 10x better for the same price and that doesn't use terrible on-board graphics cards from sites like this.

I picked the cheapest everything and it actually comes with a free game. It'll run rift fine on medium/low depending on your server population/where you're at/monitor resolution. If you can spare a little bit more money than that I'd recommend upgrading the graphics card so you could run on medium without a hitch.

[Biggiej]

walmart for a pc, that made me frown , sure you don't know how to build one, but its so easy once you get the hang of it, plug this in here, plug that in there, make sure parts are compatible, Id just make a thread on a forum saying"Help with a build" And build it your self. I would also take the 500$ and save it for something a little better. Rift is a pretty hefty game, I think you would at least need to spend 750 to have it be playable on a decent level.

[Tikaru]

Will it play RIFT? Sure.

Will it play RIFT on ultra settings? Not a chance.

[Nightbliss]

With that money you can build a machine yourself atleast 100 times better than the crap they sell at wallmart, without peripherals though.

An AMD machine will be advisable since their prices are fairly lower than Intel.

Something like this would do the trick:

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.0Ghz (Quad Core) 93€
Mainboard: Asus M2N68-AM Plus 47€
RAM: 2x2GB DDR2 Corsair Value CL5 PC2-5200 (667)
GPU: Asus HD6850 1GB GDDR5 169€
PSU: LC Power 600W GP2 V2.3 49€
HD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB 37€
DVDRW: Samsung SH-S223F 22x Black
Tower: Asus Vento TA-K51 Black 24€

This, comes roughly at 500€ and will play Rift decently enough.
The only components where I had to cut a bit was the PSU and the Motherboard but should be allright.

Could kill the GPU with something alot weaker and get a DDR3 Board and DDR3 Ram but its pointless to be honest. Performance increase from DDR2 to DDR3 is irrelevant in this context.

[HadleyX]

defintly build your own! it's much cheaper and you get a better pc! Ask a friend to do it or search for a shop where you can buy the hardware and they build and ship it to you.

500 U.S. dollars = 345.805381 Euros

AMD Athlon II X3 450 ~62€
ASRock N68C-S UCC ~34€
2GB Kingston 1333MHz CL9 ~12€
HD 5770 (MSI Hawk) ~99€
be quiet! Pure Power 350W ~36€
Samsung F3 500GB ~26€
Sony AD-7260S ~15€
Xigmatek Asgard III ~30€
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= ~350€

[Nightbliss]

Since you're from the US, check Newegg. They have great promotions, discounts, etc.
They have some cool combo packs where you can save a buttload of $$.



From Newegg.

[gmike]

Do you have a computer right now. Im guessing you do. Try and salvage all that you can from your current computer and put into the new one. Build it yourself and buy from newegg. You can do much better than any store can.

See if you can salvage things like the case, hdd, dvd, monitor, keyboard, speakers, etc. If you can do that, then you will have to only spend your money on 5 things.

-CPU
-RAM
-Mobo
-PSU
-GPU

[Kardezar]

i'd have to doubt it. but for about the same price i built my own and it can play it great.

[DarkBlade6]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...0one%20hundred 50$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817371046 60$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131699 85$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103808 140$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231179 42$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-544-_-Product 70$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-591-_-Product 160$ (Huge deal here)

Total : 600$+Tx , and this doesnt include a monitor/keyboard/mouse. U got a very solid Fast HDD on 6gps + The best $/performance CPU on the market. And the GTX 460 is also one of the best $/FPS gfx card atm (really depend on which game you wanna play, but it perform extremly good in Rift). The PSU is 80+ Bronze and very quiet so you will not hear an airplane when u start playing a game.


In my opinion, you need atleast this computer to smoothly(40fps+) run Rift with ''Decent'' graphic , but hey if u want u can run it on VERY low with a cheaper computer, but it will look like N64 graphic! And i strongly suggest you to play on a Monitor that has lower resolution than 1080p ... something like 1440x900.