Hi all,
Once again looking at getting some stuff so although not a frequent poster here I do like looking for advice from the forums as it always proves useful.
Currently, I am running;
i3 550 @ 4.20GHz with a Artic Cooling Freezer 7 on it
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H (Micro ATX)
4 GB (2x2) Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel
A 1tb and a 250gb HDD
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3
Antec p182
and a DVD drive.
Basically, my girlfriend is wanting a computer to play some games on, nothing hardcore but games such as WoW and other 'newish stuff', basically something that can run new games at acceptable settings. I'm also looking at upgrading my graphics card as it does struggle a bit with BF3/Skyrim etc and I guess that's the bottleneck.
The options that I can see are:
A) I sell her my processor/cooler/mobo/ram/250gb HDD/gfx card/DVD drive for around £200~ if that is fair and put that money towards getting myself components to replace the things I sold her with a budget of around £500.
B) I keep my computer as it is and just buy a new graphics card, and then my girlfriend gets something around the same quality as mine currently is and I can supply her with the graphics card. I'm not sure how much that would cost but if its <£400 then that would be acceptable.
Don't require monitors/OS.
What would you recommend in this situation, just buy her a cheapish new rig and just replace my graphics card, or give her my old parts and get myself slightly better parts? If you need any clarification with anything feel free to ask
.
Once again looking at getting some stuff so although not a frequent poster here I do like looking for advice from the forums as it always proves useful.
Currently, I am running;
i3 550 @ 4.20GHz with a Artic Cooling Freezer 7 on it
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H (Micro ATX)
4 GB (2x2) Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel
A 1tb and a 250gb HDD
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3
Antec p182
and a DVD drive.
Basically, my girlfriend is wanting a computer to play some games on, nothing hardcore but games such as WoW and other 'newish stuff', basically something that can run new games at acceptable settings. I'm also looking at upgrading my graphics card as it does struggle a bit with BF3/Skyrim etc and I guess that's the bottleneck.
The options that I can see are:
A) I sell her my processor/cooler/mobo/ram/250gb HDD/gfx card/DVD drive for around £200~ if that is fair and put that money towards getting myself components to replace the things I sold her with a budget of around £500.
B) I keep my computer as it is and just buy a new graphics card, and then my girlfriend gets something around the same quality as mine currently is and I can supply her with the graphics card. I'm not sure how much that would cost but if its <£400 then that would be acceptable.
Don't require monitors/OS.
What would you recommend in this situation, just buy her a cheapish new rig and just replace my graphics card, or give her my old parts and get myself slightly better parts? If you need any clarification with anything feel free to ask
.
