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Building a desktop for Tera. Need some questions to be answered. ☺

AirWeaverAirWeaver
edited July 2016 in TERA PC - General Discussion
Hey guys. So this past weekend my laptop of 3 years quit on me. So I am planning on building a pc.

I was just wondering what would work better for Tera .

Intel i5 or AMD. I found a company that builds PC desktops buy just unsure of what brand I should use to play.

Also does anyone here play on a refurbished desktop? If so would you recommend it.
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  • ZoknahalZoknahal ✭✭✭✭✭
    Intel works better for TERA. For some reason AMD doesnt get along with TERA. Keep in mind that TERA draws more resources from the CPU rather than the GPU like other games. Be sure to get at least 16GB of RAM. In my experience, having lots of RAM helped me a lot to run TERA better.

    Also, this is personal experience, but i highly do not recommend refurbished computer parts. Would rather spend 100 dollars more on a brand new equipment than a used one, it usually comes with a lot of issues if you do not know where to buy or how to do a check up for performance.
  • xvctxvct ✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    Nothing substantially bad about a refurbished desktop. Just take the same cares and considerations you would when buying a used car over a new one.

    Intel if you have the money and want more reliability and consistancy. AMD if u trying to be thrifty...but be prepared to spend a little extra on a cooling system at can support it.
  • AirWeaverAirWeaver ✭
    edited July 2016
    Ah ok. Gotta do some recalculating on the parts then. Is is 1 TB HDD space enough space to download and unpack Tera
  • ZoknahalZoknahal ✭✭✭✭✭
    I heard TERA runs better on a SSD. I have my TERA on an SSD and the loading times are slightly faster. Consider to get an SSD.
  • AirWeaverAirWeaver ✭
    Alrighty ☺thanks for your help
  • YamazukiYamazuki ✭✭✭✭✭
    You can go with an ssd+hdd combination, pci ssd if you can afford it. You would get a small ssd to fit your operating system and commonly used apps, while the hdd would be used for storage. Cpu, as brought up, should be Intel. For ram 12 should be enough, I would have said 8, but from my experience 8gb seems to have some issues with Tera especially on Windows 10. What you get overall will be dependent on your budget though.
  • TandriaTandria ✭✭
    For reasons which escape me the magic combination of USB 3.0, Tera and Razer Synapse is crash city.

    Move everything to USB 2.0 and there is joy in Mudville. So don't go overboard with 3.0 or at least avoid whatever chipset Dell / Alienware is using in the Area 51 Triad.

    Then you shift everything back to 3.0 for Mechwarrior. I sure hope Tera and/or Razer sorts that out one day. It's unique - nothing else has the USB 3.0 shiver of death.
  • VanhelzingVanhelzing ✭✭
    You should be aware that TERA is BADLY optimized. I've a gtx 980 + i7-6700k and my gpu usage in city areas stays at 40% like in Velika and giving me like 30-40 fps. Unless you stand still I get well over 60 fps. It seems in the open world environment I'm getting way better performance with 80 fps and my preset on 6 and 1440p resolution. What I'm trying to tell you is don't expect to get amazing performance in every area of the world in TERA with any gpu. WIth that said get 16 gb of RAM very important or 8 gb if you can't afford it. Tera is consuming about 5-6 gb of ram for me at the moment but I've seen tera consuming more than 8 gb for some people in youtube benchamarks. Get an SSD that is a must, for better loading screens and overall better performance. Good luck!
  • Mobius1Mobius1 ✭✭✭
    Tera is all CPU. I5 is probably your best bet, if you get the Skylake.

    And don't get the 1TB HDD. SSDs are very cheap now, and will drasticslly increase your performance.
  • SpacecatsSpacecats ✭✭✭✭✭
    Zoknahal wrote: »
    Also, this is personal experience, but i highly do not recommend refurbished computer parts. Would rather spend 100 dollars more on a brand new equipment than a used one, it usually comes with a lot of issues if you do not know where to buy or how to do a check up for performance.

    I think it depends on the manufacturer. I would personally trust companies like Corsair and MSI to refurbish their products without issue. Even brand new equipment can be DOA, and refurb products usually come with a decent return policy just in case. Just my two cents.
  • Kawaguchi3Kawaguchi3 ✭✭
    Zoknahal wrote: »
    Intel works better for TERA. For some reason AMD doesnt get along with TERA. Keep in mind that TERA draws more resources from the CPU rather than the GPU like other games. Be sure to get at least 16GB of RAM. In my experience, having lots of RAM helped me a lot to run TERA better.

    Also, this is personal experience, but i highly do not recommend refurbished computer parts. Would rather spend 100 dollars more on a brand new equipment than a used one, it usually comes with a lot of issues if you do not know where to buy or how to do a check up for performance.

    I wish I had seen all this earlier... I got an AMD FX 6300 and just upgraded my video card to radeon R9 380. The game runs better than before but definitely not the same as my old alienware laptop. In crowded areas like highwatch, velika and battlegrounds, the characters take time to load and enemies sometime stay still when they're actually not there anymore... I wonder if its worth just buying another motherboard/CPU at this point...
  • VysseVysse ✭✭✭
    I would highly recommend building a PC. It will save you a few bucks and it is fun too. I can help you out if need be. The hard part is picking the right parts....putting it together is easy peasy.
  • Daniel170Daniel170 ✭
    edited July 2016
    Get an SSD, Get a new i7, any $200+ video card and you'll have 60+ fps in any dungeon or bg. I run Tera on a superclocked i7-4770k and I get 120fps in Manglememes (Manglemire)
  • YuhataYuhata ✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    @Daniel170 just out of curiosity, what is your speed after sc'ing?
  • DoctorateDoctorate ✭✭
    edited July 2016
    AirWeaver wrote: »
    Ah ok. Gotta do some recalculating on the parts then. Is is 1 TB HDD space enough space to download and unpack Tera

    According to the system requirements page, Tera only requires about 70 GBs of free space to play comfortably.

    A TERAbyte (Ha, puns) is approximately 1,000 Gigabytes, so there would be plenty of space if you went with that option.

    As others have said, Solid-State drives are much better performing than hard disks, but they tend to be a little more expensive for less storage space.
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