Good gaming PC?

Vanquisher71

Vanquisher71

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I'm finally looking to get a PC this year, and I want one that can play some games on it. I've found one, but I'm not sure if it's good. My budget is £200-£250 for hardware, and anything over will go on software. I've found one but I'm not sure about it.

Here are the specs with my customised options included:
AMD A4 4000 Dual Core 3Ghz
AMD HD7480D Graphics
MSI A78M-E35 M-ATX Motherboard 300Mbps WiFi Card
500W Power Supply
8GB RAM
1TB HDD

I'll be using it for college work and casual gaming. I wanna be able to run Skyrim and Mafia 2.

Thanks in advance for any help
 
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Maybe read the rules when joining a forum. Remove that link before you get banned.
BTW you are not going to play many games on that.
Andi.
 
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Ok. What about this spec:
3.3GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) AMD Richland A8 - 7650K Quad-Core Processor
8GB DDR3 1600Mhz Ram
1000GB Hard Drive Storage Space
ATI Radeon HD R7 Graphics Triple Screen support
A68 FM2+ Motherboard & Drivers, USB 3.0,
 
I suggest you up your budget for hardware and go second hand.

That PC is enough for college work but not much more. It will handle a vanilla Skyrim on the lower settings at an okay frame rate but it will lag occasionally in places. The APU is low end and dated, in my opinion it is not going to be worth the money and wont last long if you intend to game on any other titles. R7 GPU could be refering to the onboard as that is what a lot of retailers use to make specs look more appealing to gamers who dont know their PCs.

Given the dated hardware and spec, i would assume the PSU is one of those grey Chinese units with specs designed to fool consumers and are prone to going pop.

Name your MAX budget for hardware and we would be able to put together a better unit
 
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Indeed, buy second hand on a tight budget. You'll build a PC twice as powerful as a PC bought in a shop for the same budget.

And go proper 'rat' build on it, mount all the hardware on a piece of wood to hang from your wall, saving you £40 on the case. Only use the retail CPU cooler from Intel. Don't buy the OS from the highstreet, get a key from ebay for a few quid (or free if you're able to).

Mouse and keyboard, I'm sure your works IT team will have some duff stuff laying around you can have. Same goes for a monitor. Check gumtree, loads of 1080p monitors going for £20.
 
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Indeed, buy second hand on a tight budget. You'll build a PC twice as powerful as a PC bought in a shop for the same budget.

And go proper 'rat' build on it, mount all the hardware on a piece of wood to hang from your wall, saving you £40 on the case. Only use the retail CPU cooler from Intel. Don't buy the OS from the highstreet, get a key from ebay for a few quid (or free if you're able to).

Mouse and keyboard, I'm sure your works IT team will have some duff stuff laying around you can have. Same goes for a monitor. Check gumtree, loads of 1080p monitors going for £20.
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This.

There's no realistic way you're going to build a PC capable of "gaming" at that budget with new components, the graphics card alone is going to be at least half your budget.
 
For example:

2500k + RAM + Mobo
Half decent PSU
Cheap HDD or small SSD
R9-290

*individual prices removed in accordance to the LAWWWW*

This is a pretty decent second hand spec, throw in a cheap case and you have a build capable of maxing out those games for £350. Worlds apart from the PCs you posted
 
Alright thanks everyone but I just need one question answered. Before I ask, I can't up my budget, and I'm new to PC's so I'm not entirely sure about building one yet. The second spec I posted, would it be good for college work and maybe Mafia 2?
 
second one at lower setting and rez would be fine; I'm upgrading apu system from 6600k to 7670k......

7700k apu system eats most games easily at 1440 by 900 without issues; frames are 40+ with high settings one most games; world of tanks; aion; guild wars 2 - garry's mod......you won't be able to run everything on high; but med to high settings...it will handle everything......

and you can always drop in 7870k later on; I'd switch your ram to 2133 or 2400 speed........as fast ram is important to apus.....
 
Yeah, we had a Richland A10 system on display in the shop for a bit, and considering the system was £400 then, it was surprisingly decent for gaming (within reason). It was coping at 1080 with the sort of graphics detail a 360/PS3 was, just at full HD resolution.
 
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