needing an upgrade for my son

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well my boys pc finally met its match. got him a copy of the latest lego starwars game and it brings his rig to its knees.

he's currently running a

amd dualcore 2.7ghz with onboard nvidia 9200 and 2 gig of ram and even at the lowest settings the game aint going to play.


so i'm needing to get him a bit of an upgrade :).

going to retain his drives- optical and hdd but need a psu and case(its currently a sff unit he's using. mobo, ram and gpu preferably for under 400 cheaper is better but i want something that will let him game at a reasonable level for 1080p.

what you recommend guys?
 
the mm would be your best bet for a decent spec.



thats what i'm thinking, have been trying to spec on and off tonight and cant get anywhere near.


he doesnt need anything ridiculous just something that will take a bit of light gaming :)
 
to be honest you'd probably be fine with just a PSU + GPU upgrade (and case if you need to) because lego starwars cant take that much computing power

what dual core are we talking about though? if your not sure then download a program called CPU-z and it will tell you.

just in case you do need the new motherboard + CPU, are the hard drives IDE or SATA?
 
his current rigs an x2 215 and the mobo is a non clocker (its an acer prebuilt) sata optical and hdd he's coming up 7 so in my eyes its time i got him off the xbox and into proper gaming :)

might be able to squeeze that budget to £500 for a decent bit of gaming grunt (i can justify it by stealing his current acer pos and sticking it in the living room as a plex server
 
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I built a similar spec to this for my mate recently and he's pretty happy with it.

You can even drop the 8GB of ram to 4gb if you want to save a little bit of cash if he's just playing lego star wars.

You can even drop the graphics card down, I doubt lego star wars is that GPU intensive, even though I've never played it or looked at it.

I'm guessing a 5770 would max it out (members market, I'd imagine you could get one for under £50)

Hope this helps.
 
hmm got me thinking now :) £200 for a mobo/cpu/ram

i'd be tempted to stick another £100 on that and buy me a 2500k setup and give him my old 9450 :)
 
When u said it as for your son are you sure ? we are all big kids




yup, my 9450 and 6970 play lego starwars fine :)


now if there was some new gpus out i'd be a good parent and give him my rig and be forced to build a new one. might pick him up a 5750 or simlar and buy me a sandybridge upgrade :)
 
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dont go for AMD, intel is better no matter what price your looking at if its mostly for gaming
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compare similarly priced socket 1155 processors to AMD processor on anandtech benchamrk and see how much intel beats AMD in the FPS section (ie, what your interested in)

since you dont need HDDs or optical drives heres my recommendation:


YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 460 Superclocked 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £119.99
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £94.99
1 x MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) **B3 REVISION** £61.99
1 x Cooler Master HAF 912 Case - Black £52.99
1 x Lepa W-Series 500W '80 Plus' Power Supply - with FREE LEPA Hard Drive Enclosure £47.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £26.99
Total : £416.94 (includes shipping : £10.00).


however, if your upping the budget to £500 then i;d go for something like this:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x HIS ATI Radeon HD 6870 IceQ X PLUS Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £149.99
1 x Asus P8Z68-V LX Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £71.98
1 x Lepa W-Series 500W '80 Plus' Power Supply - with FREE LEPA Hard Drive Enclosure £47.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £26.99
Total : £509.92 (includes shipping: FREE).
 
Sounds a lot just to play that game, how about a few second hand parts?

I built a PC for someone recently, with an AMD X2 6000 @ 3.1 and a 4830 graphics card and 4gig of ram for next to nothing, old parts but probably would run that game. I gave it to them for free as it was old parts from my upgrade 2 machines ago.
 
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