Is my PC capable of gaming?

Radec

Radec

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Hello everyone!

I love gaming, and I use my PS3+PS4 for that. Although that will probably always be my main method, I have wanted to do a bit of PC gaming in the past, but it wasn't until last week that I actually owned my first PC!

Could you guys maybe take a look at these specs and tell me if my PC is capable of any gaming? I'm not sure as I'm still very new to all this.

Intel i5 3570k
Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H mobo
mushkin (i think its called) 8gb ram
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GPU
1tb HDD
Corsair cx 750w PSU

Sorry if it's a bit simple, I bought the PC from a friend for £100

Do you think this could handle a game such as Starcraft 2?

Thanks
 
Your friend was mental to let it go for that low.
He could've sold the cpu for that alone.

The gpu isn't uber high end, but it's plenty capable. Have fun :)

ED: Either way, it'll stick it to your consoles :p ;)
 
You're kidding me... You bought that system for £100?! :eek:

Mate, you could run anything with that thing. :D

There is probably over £500 of PC there at used prices if you factor in the bits you haven't listed like case etc.
 
Thats an unbelievable buy for £100! You owe your mate a crate of his favourite beer to make up for the fact you have basically robbed him.

To answer the question, you will be able to play just about any game on high settings depending on the resolution you play at. Some of the most demanding games like Crysis 3 might not run with everything completley on max, but you wont be far off.
 
Do yourself a favour and don't take these responses to mean you should sell it on and make a super profit. PC gaming is awesome, and that system will be fine. Give it a go, it's great fun :)
 
He bought it from a site and they built it for him, but they used a rubbish PSU, which failed.
So he bought another PC for around £700.

Don't ask me why.
I asked what he was doing with the broken one, he didn't know.
I asked what specs and he wasn't sure at all, a friend of his chose the components for him.
Then I told him to get onto the site that sold it and get it repaired under warranty, I pestered him about it for about 3 weeks and he couldn't be bothered.

So I said i'd give him £100
I paid £70 for a new PSU
 
I offered £100 because I knew he obviously wasn't bothered what happened to it.
And I didn't have a clue how to fix it, thought i'd end up damaging it rather than fixing it.

But honestly, now that i've come so far (for me) by fixing it and ironing everything out, I do feel bad.
 
When you get up and running I think a program like GPU-Z should be able to tell you :)

If so, its pretty much as good as a 7950, or can be clocked to keep pace with one.

Bargain of a deal btw!
 
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