How to upgrade my PC for gaming?

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Hi,

Anyone help an old granny and her grandson get started in PC gaming please?

He is wanting to play games like DayZ and COD4 (I have no idea why, and I'm guessing they are totally age inappropriate, lol).

He has an HP Compaq P6107uk, operating system Windows XP, but apparently needs to upgrade that with various bits? What would he need to buy please? And is Amazon the best place to buy from? It seems quite a simple process to add things?

Or should he buy a new one, if that would be cheaper/easier/better? We've seen Cyberpower dual attack elite gaming pc on ****** at £399.99.

Help and advice (in layman's terms please, as we are both completely clueless) very much appreciated.
 
Hello and welcome to the forum :)

Please check the FAQ in regards to competitor links and names.

Do you have a budget in mind?
 
Hi thanks.

£399 would be his max. He's only 15. xxxxx have recommended a 4gb memory upgrade at £45.59, but surely he would need a faster processor and graphics card too?

xxxxx suggested he buys new at £369.99 - Currently xxxxxx cheapest Gaming PC representing excellent value for money. It features an Intel Pentium G620 processor based on the highly reliable ASUS P8B75-M LX motherboard. Games are powered by a superb value for money, Nvidia GeForce GT640 1GB graphics card. Backed up with 4GB of DDR3 Corsair XMS3 RAM, a Seagate Barracuda 500GB Hard drive and the very stable Corsair CX 430W Power supply this machine will satisfy your games needs. We have implemented the Hemera into a bargain based Xigmatek Asgard Case for your viewing pleasure.

Or, as I mentioned in my original post, there is the Cyberpower dual attack elite...

Would hate for him to spend all his money on an upgrade and then find that he needed a new pc after all.
 
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You'll have to stop quoting competitor names mate its against forum rules. And that build seems quite poor value for money and does it include an OS? The G620 will not play Dayz and the 640 is not a gaming GPU.
 
COD is not CPU or GPU intensive and I have run it off a HD 4000 before without fps dropping below 30.

However Dayz is a mod for Arma 2 and that is a poorly coded game which needs a decent CPU. I am unsure whether or not it supports more than 2 cores though.
 
Did those computers come with an OS?

If they did not then get Dooms spec and slap Windows 7 on it, 64 bit ofc.

If you need an OS to come included with that £400 then I would suggest this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 micro ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £41.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £39.98
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £36.98
1 x **B Grade** Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £29.99
1 x LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £419.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
Most mass made jobbies have locked motherboard so you'd be talking replacing the CPU, mobo, GPU, possibly RAM as well etc. The case won't be anything more than a generic pile of junk so that would need replacing ideally. Then I wouldn't trust the PSU in those things to run a GPU...

So you get the idea ;)

EDIT: @Overkill. He needs some form of graphics...
 
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So no point simply upgrading his HP Compaq P6107uk (operating system Windows XP) with a 4 core processor and a graphics card - job done??
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What? That didn't seem coherent to me..

The only 4 core processor you could get for that is the old athlon x 4's. The G640 is a better CPU than that and the i3 3220 is a lot better still..

For around the £400 mark Bacon's build is spot on.. The A10-5800k has a great on-board GPU, enough to play Skyrim on med/high at 1080.

If price is still a sore point, choosing the case i specced will save you another £13..

OvEr_KiLL said:
why the fm2 cpu and not a piledriver, the quad or the 6 core?
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Because they don't have good on-board GPU's..

Pure CPU wise the A10 isn't far off the 4300.. For the money the A10 is a lot better value.
 
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