Some of you may know my computer finally took a bump and died, So ive been looking at gaming desktops to buy and use once I'm done with the move. My mother has told me Asus is a great for gaming and has amazing specs. I want opinions on you favorite or preferred brands/specs, I could possibly buy. My price rang is $0 -$700 USD

Thank you in advanced people ^.^

 

Depends, you wont get a decent computer for under $1,300 $2,100 if it's pre-built, but for MineCraft you'd be good with that, go for HP, Asus is trash.

 

Agreed.
My dad has a Asus laptop and I go on Mine Craft on it. (Sometimes)
It lags and glitches for me, as my HP laptop is fine. It lags for a minute when I get onto the server, but otherwise... It's fine.

I got my HP laptop for $700 with a free tablet. It's touchscreen and I'm table to rotate the screen.

 

Mate, get a hp pavilion x360.

4gb ram, 360gb storage, quick mainframe bootup, almost all driver prerequisites predownloaded, Intel icore Pentium.

tl:dr

Fast gaming (minecraft up to 40 fps on a bad internet connection), lots of storage, fast login timing once power button is pressed, almost all things that make computer run is there (I can help setup ones that aren't), barely any crashing or problem.

Touch screen, fast receiving mouse, very good camera and audio capture (made also may beatsaudio), windows 8 (can be downgraded to windows 7 if prefered), hard to brake (without force).

I would always go asus for a gaming laptop, but not for your price range. Good gaming laptops can't go pass asus, but they cost around 2-4k

 

I disagree, read my post, I have a very good computer that's less that 1200, for both work and gaming. Of course the more expensive ones are better, but mine is very decent, levelling onto very good

 

Wait, is the color of your laptop red...?
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Yeah, that's the one. But don't get confused between the x360, x420 and x480. Mines the cheapest

 

If you payed $1,200 for that you were scammed, It's 2015, most stock PC's come with 2TB HDD space, and 16GB RAM base these days, assuming you buy a pre-built PC all of what you listed should be there, if you're serious about gaming you wont buy a pre-built as they're filled with bloatware and have trashy specs. Honestly, the PC you mentioned couldn't run 10% of the games that released this year, I actually feel as you googled random things or read the box, as half of that is irrelevant, my PC boots in under 10 seconds, and I have 1.8TB worth of data on it, and it's 3 years old.

Your internet connection has nothing to do with FPS, fact is boasting about hitting 40FPS on Minecraft is rather distasteful, as I can hit into the thousands, I average 670. But that's irrelevant as I'm using a PC I built myself, if you want to play games, avoid laptops, as you cut their lifespan by half instantly (Laptops already have a small lifespan anyway) Grace is buying a desktop, not a laptop, therefore HP is the way to go if she's buying pre-built. Asus is godawful, anyone who has a brain with PC's will tell you that.

 

I paid 500 for it. It want prebuilt, I said as an easy option you can buy with almost all built, I build mine from scratch and get almost double everything, 1tb drive, 16gb ram. I feel very offended you strip me down to googling things just to make my pc look good, I work alongside my schools I.T programmers and help them, when I'm only a student and it's their job. If anything, you couldn't be more wrong, I play games like skyrim, scribblenauts, Gta, assassins creed, dishonoured, metal gear solid and many other huge loaded games and they run at approx 100-200 fps.

Internet connections have everything to do with online games. The computer may be able to run at 1k fps, but if you have an Internet with disgusting upload/download speed, your screwed, no ram can help you. I had an old computer back in the day, and while I had bad internet, I was only getting 10-20 fps, but once I got a better intenet, I started getting 30-40 fps, with the Internet being the only variable. If you are smart enough, you can design and construct the settings and databases on your laptop, to actually increase your lifespan of it, eg mine; I went from the natural style 3 year laptop, to mine atm, that will last upto a decade. Sorry, I didn't read the desktop part properly. I agree with you with asus desktops being God awful, and yes hps are the best around for her price range.

 

Everyone's saying Asus is bad, lmao, I have an Asus and it runs minecraft at 60-70 fps.

 

I'll focus on this part first, you shouldn't be offended, I was simply just telling you the truth, I'm sorry but lying to me wont get you anywhere, evermore so when you're lying to someone who was offered an I.T scholarship, I was the only person in my class to get 100/100 on the exam, bragging aside. Every game you listed came out 3 - 4 years ago, I am talking about modern games, IE games that have 65 - 100GB install files, meaning the PC you gave specs for couldn't even dare run it, I want you to go here and do it and post back what it shows. While Grace wont be playing these games, the PC you listed to run at 100FPS would blow up if it tried to run one of these games.
If you get 40FPS at Minecraft, you ain't getting over 15 on nay games you listed.

Internet connection has nothing to do with FPS, please don't even pull that, I'm not stupid.
"If you are smart enough, you can design and construct the settings and databases on your laptop, to actually increase your lifespan of it, eg mine; I went from the natural style 3 year laptop, to mine atm, that will last upto a decade." Lmao. Nope, Laptops last averagely about 2 years, some last more, others last less.

 

Asus isn't actually that bad.
They do work well, it's just HP works better for some people.

 

I have a stock PC with a graphics card upgrade, and it runs minecraft at 150 fps w/o shaders ._.

 

Tbh I don't really understand why anybody would need anything above 50fps, you can't really tell the difference. Unless you're recording or something, that is

 

I have an Asus desktop PC and I get around 50-150fps with high quality settings in Minecraft. I get about 20-30fps when I use Shaders. All in all, it's pretty good considering I record a lot at the average of 50fps.

 

I use am asus Republic of gamers laptop, it gets anywhere from 100 fps where normal people would lag, to. 500-600 fps in which normal people would get a high of around 30 fps. On my old island, I would get around 30 fps as a high on my old laptop, the. I got my new one and got around 250, so that should say something. I'm far from being an expert at computer specs, but the Nvidia and AMD series of video cards are specifically made for gaming, ao video card wise that's your best bet. I use the nvidia 980 series, and it does amazing. It's very expensive though, finding a good gaming desktop or laptop can be very expensive, I paid 2500$ CAD for mine, that's Let me google that for you
USD though.

 

I'm just going to debunk some ASUS hate real quick. I custom built my computer about 4 years ago and it's still capable of running pretty much anything I throw at it. It's got an ASUS M4N75TD mobo and I love it. They're reliable as all hell and perform like a dream. There was actually one time I spilled soda straight down the middle of my tower and it still runs the same as it did when I first got it. That said, I'm not saying it's impossible that someone has had problems with ASUS computers before, but don't assume that you will. ASUS is considered one of the best manufacturers out on the market right now along with the likes of GIGABYTE.

A few brands I'd personally avoid if you want to be gaming are Dell and HP. Dell should be self explanatory, HP is a bit more of a personal bias since I've never owned and HP product that has lasted more than a year. Don't buy an Alienware. It's Dell in disguise.

Keeping your build underneath $700 might prove challenging if you want it to run at decent FPS with 300 people on a poorly made game at a time. Unless you're actually going to play other resource intensive games which are performance sensitive (shooters, other things where low FPS will get you killed) I wouldn't recommend blowing this much money on a Minecraft build. For the sake of this thread, I'm going to assume you may play games of this type in the future.

I threw this together in a bit of a hurry because I was lazy:
AMD FX-6300, MSI Radeon R7 250X, Cooler Master HAF 912 - System Build - PCPartPicker
I was unable to find this power supply on that site for some reason, but it adds about another $100-110 to it, bringing your grand total to just below $700. I wasn't sure how much storage you needed so I went with a 500GB HDD, if you ever need more it's very easy to do. Feel free to change that to your liking, those are just some recommendations I figured I'd throw out.

I'll also note that the case I provided has no USB 3.0 front panel ports if that's important to you.

 

stahp arguing T.T

And if you're only using it for MC, you REALLY dont need a fast computer...

 

toshiba is good for me lmao