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Hey, a family friend needs a pc. their children are quite young but i know they play games in town so i think they would like to get a pc which can handle some games.

However, their budget is very tight and needs to be bought from a retailer as i wont be around to fix it and i have some questions:

1) If i bought from a pc makers with say an asus SLI board, do you think i would be able to overclock it?

I know that dell seem to lock their mobos but if it was a more exotic mobo or one which is more expensive do you think i could overclock their pc? it would save them quite a bit of cash.

2) How would an 8600 do with playing games for a year or two?

3) Do you recon it would be better to buy the printer, monitor, speakers and mouse and keyboard separate or i with a bundle?

If so what budget printer and speakers would you recomend?

4) Would putting an extra stick of ram into a retail pc void their warrenty? As if it goes wrong i may not be tehre to take the right stick out lol.

5) Do you recon its possible to get a gaming pc for under 600 quid from a pc retailer?


Thanks guys, sorry for a bit of a long post. never looked into these things before and they really dont have any money to waste so its gota be best bang for buck all the way.
 
1) If it uses a standard motherboard then you should be able to overclock it as well as any other although note that the PSU might not cope terribly well if it isn't good quality.

2) Ought to be fine, particularly if overclocked.

3) No idea, my initial thought would be that it depends on the price and what exactly they will be used for as that will determine the quality required.

4) This depends on the seller, some put anti-tamper stickers on their systems so you can't add anything without breaking the seal while others will allow upgrades.

5) This will vary slightly on exactly what parts you want and you may have to compromise somewhat if you can't swap the parts around but yes, for just a base unit you should be able to.
 
£600 from a retailer for a gamming machnie, no chance!

maybe games such as sims2 etc, but not one that can play bioshock, cod4, supreme commander (or even the dreaded crysis)

have a look at ocuk's budget pre-built range :)
 
i wasn't talking about games like crysis. Im talking cod2, rb6 perhaps cod4, CSS, BF2 doubt any stratergy games like supreme commander.

Thanks, i found a stonking deal somewhere. 400 quid for an E6400 8600GT 512mb 3 year warrenty, 2gb ram. It all looks good but i gota get a printer, mouse, keyboard and monitor and then its going over 400 quid. I think their budget might be around 400-500.

im hoping ill be able to overclock as i know on my friends dell pc they have locked all the settings and he cant get into any of the ovberclocking.
 
Im just looking to see what i can get for 400 quid if i built it. Not easy lol.

Would the 8600 256mb be any good for the next year? or do you recon really it needs to be a 512mb card.

Whats the 3650 like?
 
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