Will This Computer Play The Sims 3?

"igazor;c-17078791" wrote:
I was not aware that there are warranty and longevity issues with custom builds. To clarify, this is where we select the components/parts we want and the company we are purchasing from assembles the system for us prior to shipping it out, after checking to make sure what we selected will actually work well together. Companies like CyberPowerPC and iBuyPower offer the same or similar warranties and extended warranty for purchase programs that the major manufacturers do (well, Apple's extended warranty system may be better than the others but that's not really relevant here). If they didn't, then no one would order computers this way and they would have gone out of business. If we are talking about many, many years down the road, there isn't generally much or any support available for older machines once they begin to pass into what will by then be obsolescence.

Again to clarify this is not the scenario where one purchases boxes full of parts and tries to assemble a computer on their own. In that case, of course there is generally no warranty program or customer support unless the components arrived broken upon shipment because there is no company to stand behind the build.

But anyway, that last one you linked to looks fine and the price is a couple of hundred euros under the same model showing (for me) at Amazon.it. I don't know if I am seeing the same prices you are across the board because I am not actually in Italy, so comparison shopping from this end is difficult. And again I was put off by the supposed original price on that eprice site because it made me lose confidence in anything else the vendor might have had to say.


Edit: I also don't understand why you are insisting on a GTX 1070 for a graphics card. I mean, that's fine too but it has more GPU power than TS3 can possibly use and the 1070 must be driving the final price up higher than a 1060 or some of the newer 1600 series cards would. The game cannot make use of more than 800 MB of vram (video ram), which by today's standards isn't really all that much. But if you might have other uses in mind for this computer in the future, then that would explain the preference.

@igazor I want to make this sacrifice because I really love this game and the entire franchise. Also someone in the forums says that The Sims 4 will need a much more stronger graphic card in the near future (the upcoming update that will stop to support 32 bit systems is an important sign). I want to install every itineration of the series on this laptop on the 512gb SSD, from The Sims 1 onwards... I don't want to be silly, but I'm really confident about a possible Sims 5 and all the requirements that might came in a game of the new decade (2020-2030). I know that is a very expensive laptop but until now I always had wrong and inappropriate mid-range laptops to gaming on (risking to broking them and frying) so... What do you think about my concerns? I am too much exagerating, or is this a smart move?