Advice on prebuilt setup

Budget:1400
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Expectations:WoW, Diablo 3 high/max settings
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Usage:playing mmorpg as well as streaming content to my xbox
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Hi, I'm looking for some advice on the Digital Storm prebuilt setups. I mostly play WoW and I want to be able to play Diablo 3.

Currently my monitor is 1680x1050 but that may be upgraded at a later point.

I'm trying to decide between the Marauder level 2, Marauder level 3, or the ODE V2 level 1.

There is about a $300 spread here. The cheapest one has the AMD FX-8120 and HD7770 where the other two have i5 2500k and HD 7850. The Ode is a little more expensive than the Marauder for basically the same specs.

I would like to be able to run WoW and Diablo 3 at max settings with my current monitor @ 1680x1050 as well as a higher resolution if I replace my monitor.

My other desire is for it to be future proof for at least 4 years. My current rig is a HP box AMD Athlon X2 3800+ that I added a GeForce 8800GT and 700w power supply. This rig has served me well for 6 years, but I'm always concerned about overheating.

Which of the 3 setups should I go with? I would rather have the i5 because my Athlon has never impressed me.

Thanks

Are you secretly a DS employee bprat? If not, you should be getting something for your time on the forums

bprat22,
Thanks for the quick response. After looking at the comparison charts I'm actually leaning more towards the Marauder lvl 3. It gets to a point of diminishing returns in my case. Especially since it will be World of Warcraft and Diablo 3 1680x1050 for me.

How well would a Marauder Lvl 1 or Lvl 2 serve my needs? I have a 1TB data drive to plug into any of them.

I currently play WoW on my 6 year old HP that I added a video card into. The problem is it won't play Diablo 3

It's got an Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Windows XP
2 Gig ram
Nvidia GeForce 8800GT

No problems with WoW medium settings, but doesn't meet minimuim for Diablo 3.

Basically my first gaming computer so as you can see my standard based on what I'm used to should be easy to fullfil

Lvl 1 is $799
Lvl 2 is $999
Lvl 3 is $1199

I'm just trying to find where I hit the point of diminishing returns for what I need.

Thanks for the help.

Yeah just about anything will smoke my current setup. LOL

Looking at that Chart it looks like my $200 from Lvl 2 to Lvl 3 roughly 60% improvement in performance?

And i'm guessing about the same between the CPU's ?

Thanks.

Haha, it took blizzard over a decade to come out with D3 and it even so, we aren't getting the "complete game". So I highly doubt a D4 in an year or two. But they are trying to get out the best possible bug free game.

Anyways, like bprat mentioned, Marauder lvl 3 is more than adequate for D3

Edited by criTalon - 26 Apr 2012 at 11:42am

It's always nice seeing our community helping new customers out.bprat22 isn't an employee, but, he is definitely an awesome customer helping everyone out!

Ok so for an update. I've been saving towards the Marauder Lvl 3, but my freezer died, so there went $500 towards that instead of my computer.

So now I'm starting to wonder if the Lvl 1 for $799 might be the way to go. My old rig plays World of Warcraft just fine, and from what I can tell the Lvl 1 smashes my old rig. How well would it play Diablo 3?

The only PC game I play is WoW, and will play Diablo 3 since I got it for free.

Just a thought.

Thanks.

Congrats.