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ok I’m a person who loves playing the Sims and Sims 3 will be released in June. So I have put me a computer together so that I can run the new Sims when it comes out!!! So what I want to know is: (1) Whats the difference in a gaming system and a regular system? (2) I am putting the gaming systems specs and specs from the system that I have customized which one is better? Oh and I will be using my customized one for more than just games I just want it to be able to play many games if I want too load them!! Oh and can a gaming system be used like a regular computer too like for surfing etc ( I’m a Realtor)
Heres the specs for a gaming computer:
General Features
Operating system
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Processor
Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo SP7500 Processor (1.6GHz, 4MB L2 cache)
Display
13.3″WXGA High-Definition Widescreen LED Backlit Display (1280 x 800); Ambient light sensor
Dimensions
Width (cm): 32.2 = 12.65 inches; Depth (cm): 23= 9.04 inches; Height front & rear (cm): 1.79 = .70 inches
Weight
Weight starting at: 1.53Kg=3.373 lb.(with SSD & battery)
Memory
2GB
Total memory slots
1
Maximum memory expansion
N/A
Graphics card
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100(shared)
Networking
Integrated Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN & Bluetooth|RJ45 integrated in Voodoo Power Adapter with wireless personal access point
Broadband wireless
N/A
Primary CD/DVD drive
External slot-load eSATA Super Multi drive; Dual format DVDRW,including both +R and -R in double layer:24x CD; Read/24x CD-R Write/24x CD-RW Write/8x DVD Read/8x DVD+R/R/RW Write in single layer,6x dual layer. 5x DVD-RAM Read and Write.
Hard drive
64 GB Solid State Drive [gigabyte is defined as 1,000,000,000 bytes,accessible capacity may vary]
Primary battery
3-Cell, 33 Whr Lithium ion polymer, user replaceable
Personalization
N/A
Front-side bus (processor dependent)
800MHz
AC adapter
56W Voodoo AC Power Adapter with wireless personal access point + RJ45 (ID coordinated)
PCI expansion
34mm ExpressCard
I/O ports
Video: HDMI video port (max resolution 1920×1080) |Audio: Headphone out shared with Microphone in digital array microphone with beam-forming and noise cancellation capability |Additional I/O: DC 1 USB 2.0, 1 x e-SATA / USB 2.0 combo
Speakers
Two speakers
Software, full versions
Voodoo IOS – Instant On Solution; Cyberlink DVD Suite Deluxe; Cyberlink YouCam
Software, introductory versions
Grisoft AVG Professional (1 year base standard)
Trial Internet service
N/A
Basic warranty
One year parts/labor warranty,90 day software warranty.
ENERGY STAR Qualified
N/A
ok heres the one I’ve customized (but have not bought yet):
g system Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) edit
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor P8400 (2.26 GHz) edit
Memory 4GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm) – For 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics edit
Hard drive 500GB 5400RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (250GB x 2) with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection edit
Graphics card 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT edit
Display 18.4″ diagonal High Definition HP Ultra BrightView Infinity Display (1920×1080p) edit
Primary DVD/CD drive $50 OFF!! Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD+/-R/RW Double Layer edit
Personalization Webcam + Fingerprint Reader with HP Imprint Finish (Fluid) edit
Networking Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card with Bluetooth edit
TV & entertainment experience No TV Tuner w/remote control edit
Keyboard HP Color Matching Keyboard edit
Primary battery 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery edit
Productivity software No Productivity Software
This is whats required to run the sims 3
* Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
* 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 1.5 GB RAM
* At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
* 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:
* Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above.
* 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
* 0.5 GB additional RAM
SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS
NVIDIA GeForce series
FX 5900, FX 5950
6200, 6500, 6600, 6800,
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280
ATI Radeon™ series
9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900
3450, 3650, 3850, 3870,
4850, 4870
Intel® Extreme Graphics
GMA X3×00 series
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not

My friends want me to get Everquest, but my computer isn’t good enough so I need a new one, I’d like to get it as cheap as possible and it needs to meet these requirements:
* Operating System: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
* Processor: 1GHz
* RAM: 512 MB
* Video Card: DirectX 9 compatible. Pixel shader and vertex shader compatible hardware with 64 MB of texture memory
* Sound Card: DirectSound compatible audio hardware
The recommended system requirements are:
* Operating System: Windows XP
* Processor: 2 GHz or greater
* RAM: 1 GB
* CD-ROM: 16x CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
* Video Card: DirectX 9 compatible. Pixel shader and Vertex shader compatible hardware with 128mb of texture memory or greater
* Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy
Besides playing Everquest all I need it for is surfing the internet. Please help, thanks.

I’m surfing the internet and all of a sudden music starts playing. I close down the internet browser so it’s not but the desktop and the sounds continue. What seems to be advertisements starts to play–just the audio. No one else is logged into to the computer. I’m starting to think it’s a form of spyware or malware because of these random popups I’ve been getting recently. Does anyone know what this is or how I can fix it?
Note: I’ve tried downloading MalwareBytes but it won’t let me install it. It freezes up during the installation process.

I recently built my own computer and it seems to be running slower than my old 7 year old dell computer.
During everyday, low power tasks like web surfing or word documents, I really can’t tell the difference between my new and old computers. When I tested how well it runs with some high def 1080 x264 mkv movies I have around, it worked really well. I noticed during file copying and extracting compressed files the new computer didn’t do the tasks faster than the old computer did, I expected with the new i7 920 64 bit CPU it should be done in 1/10th the time. All the hardware I installed on the new computer are all faster than on the old computer, so at least the access/read speed would be faster, but it wasn’t.
Then came my test of running Half Life 2 to see any improvements and finally experience the game with graphics maxed out. The graphics card handled the graphics part really well, as expected, but the loading (starting HL2) was slower than the old computer, by about 10 minutes!
There is also a problem with the keyboard I have, Its a Logitech illuminated keyboard an even though it HID and Plug-n-play compatible, the keyboard doesn’t work until windows is loaded, and when the computer is turned on with the keyboard plugged to the USB port the computer takes about 3 minutes before the Bios/post screen shows up. When I tried plugging the keyboard into the PS/2 port (with adapter) the bios/post screen shows up immediately but the keyboard doesn’t work at all. I can’t figure that problem out either.
computer specs:
Custom project:
MSI Platinum X58 motherboard
Intel i7 920 quad core processor with HT (some programs think the computer has 8 CPUs and windows sees it as one cpu with 4 cores)
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit (I’m not all that familiar with vista- that could be a problem)
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB SATA II hard drive
nVidia GeForce 250 GTS 512MB graphics
G-Skill 6GB DDR3 1333 ram
onboard 2x Gigabit NIC
onboard Realtec audio with HD capability
22x DVD-ram drive (reads every format of CD and single-layer DVD)
other things I noticed:
the CPU usage never gets above 5% at any time, even when gaming or watch HD movies, normally this would be at 100% on the old computer
the computer uses around 1.5GB ram at all times, it seems pretty high when compared to other computers I use at work also with the Vista OS.
please help me, thank you

i really need to know how good this computer is i will really only use it for basic stuff like surfing the web emails and hd video quality and maybe some casual gaming like css or cod4 on low settings
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E7400 (2.8GHz, 3M, L2Cache, 1066FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic, Service Pack 1 edit
MEMORY 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz2DIMMs
Dell 19 inch Widescreen S1909WXF Flat Panel Monitor edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Single Drive: 16X (DVD+/-RW) BurnerDrive
HARD DRIVE 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
VIDEO CARD Integrated Video, Intel® GMA X4500HD
MEDIA READER No Media Reader
MODEM & WIRELESS No Modem Option
SOUND Integrated 5.1 Channel Audio