Buying a new computer (will be botting on it)

[martijntjuhh]

I'm buying a new computer which I will be botting on, and pking and most likely staking later on.

Now I am not sure wether the computer is good/fast enough, I want it to be quite fast and smooth.

It has 3GB Ram DDR3.
2,8 ghz triple core amd processor
1GB graphics card
500GB hdd ( it's not that much but I wouldn't need alot more, so that's fine.)

Does any one know if this combination will run smooth and fast?

Or should I buy a brand new one for around 700 euros?

Thanks in advance

 

[catsown]

What's your budget?

 

[kk6]

How many bots did you want to run on it/and what kind? 3GB RAM can be used up pretty fast.

 

[martijntjuhh]

I don't have a specific budget. Some one offered me the pc described above for 300 euros with a 19' acer screen included. The amount of bots vary, I'm not looking to start some sort of insane goldfarming business, but maybe about 4-5 bots?

 

[catsown]

4-5 Bots, it could work. sounds okay for 300euro with the screen included.. Flat screen right?

As for fast and smooth.. meh, you might think it is, if you've never had anything better.

 

[martijntjuhh]

Yeah flat screen,

I used to have 2GB ram, but it worked like a charm, but could only bot 2-3 bots max, but later on it started to slow down, tried to speed it up, but nothing worked.

 

[ll champion]

It has 3GB Ram DDR3. - alright, may need to upgrade to 8 gb

2,8 ghz triple core amd processor - Not bad, could always upgrade to a quad core

1GB graphics card - Doesn't take that good of a GPU to run RS smoothly, will run fine.

500GB hdd - Solid, I know I wouldn't use anymore than 100gb myself.

Does any one know if this combination will run smooth and fast?
YES

For the $360 pricetag, the computer is unbeatable, AND it comes with a monitor. You can expect at least 3 bots, maybe more.

 

[kk6]

I feel like you need 4GB RAM at minimum because you don't want the bots alone to eat up your CPU usage %; if you're running 4-5 bots simultaneously, I'm going to guess 8GB RAM would be better than 3GB RAM (since that can get used up quickly).

I don't know if the CPU usage of bots has gone down...but I remember some bigger bot programs would take a 1GB+ of RAM to run smoothly before the bot nuke.

 

[martijntjuhh]

Thanks alot champion, was thinking about upgrading to 6 or 8 GB ram, depending on the price tag. PC is 3 years old by the way.

@KK6 Yeah it's not only about the ram how smooth the bots will run, sometimes 2-3 bots would run within a range of 1GB-1,5GB but sometimes when I ran the third bot it would lag like hell.

 

[ll champion]

Thanks alot champion, was thinking about upgrading to 6 or 8 GB ram, depending on the price tag. PC is 3 years old by the way.

Ahh already 3 years in service huh? Hopefully you won't come across any hardware problems right off the bat, and sap as many years as you can. For about $50, you can get yourself 2 x 4 GB ram sticks, plus the ram you already have (Implying your mobo has 4 slots).

 

[martijntjuhh]

That's why I'm not sure wether I should buy it or not, one of the reasons is due the 3 year service, the person who offered it to me seemed to have taken really good care of it, but it's still 3 years.

 

[martijntjuhh]

Or should I buy a good new one for around 700 euros?

 

[ll champion]

Or should I buy a good new one for around 700 euros?

You can build yourself a MUCH better computer for that price, I'd highly recommend that route. Saying that the euros adds up to about $900 USD, you can get yourself a powerful computer.

 

[omnicloud]

I'm buying a new computer which I will be botting on, and pking and most likely staking later on.

Now I am not sure wether the computer is good/fast enough, I want it to be quite fast and smooth.

It has 3GB Ram DDR3.
2,8 ghz triple core amd processor
1GB graphics card
500GB hdd ( it's not that much but I wouldn't need alot more, so that's fine.)

Does any one know if this combination will run smooth and fast?

Or should I buy a brand new one for around 700 euros?

Thanks in advance

you will only be able to run 4 bots or so at max depending on what bot you use with the above computer. I have a 3.3ghz quad core with 8 gb of ram and I can run 5 bots [ epicbot] and then still play a character myself with no lag anymore than that and a little lag occurs. and I only use about 4 gb of ram when doing this. I don't know the euro to us$ ratio but I only paid 350$ for my computer and this was several months ago I'm sure you can find as good of a deal if not better by now.