New Gaming Machine Advice

Azeryk

Azeryk

Azeryk

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So my current machine has past 5 years old now and is starting to struggle with the latest bath of games coming out (Quad @ 2.67GHzm 4GB RAM, Radeon 4890 1GB graphics card), so am looking to get something to last me the next 5 years.

and like everyone I don't want to spend too much :D

after looking through the OC-UK site I found this:

Windows 8.1
Intel Core i5-4690k @ 4.2GHz Quad
8GB DDR3 2133MHz RAM
2TB HDD
Nvidea Geforce GTX 760 4096MB Graphics Card
Asus Xonar DGX 5.1 Sound Card

What I could do with is advice on how decent this is, if any changes should be made, how long it should last, or if I should wait for things to change until the new year.
 
Probably can't use much tbh, HDD is: 500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer

Am hoping to keep things around the £900 mark as I want some limit else I'll just get silly with add ons and upgrades.
 
Probably can't use much tbh, HDD is: 500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer

Am hoping to keep things around the £900 mark as I want some limit else I'll just get silly with add ons and upgrades.
 
Looks familiar for most :D although is that pre-built? It's been 14 years since I last tried something like that so probably best if I didnt have to build.
 
Thanks

so is this spec something which will work well for a while and last like 5 years before falling before minimum for games?
 
Yeah I know the futures a tad unpredictable but I expect after a few years to be setting games on medium and not high. Went through the same thing with this rig although am now below minimum on a few games and thinking it's a good time to get back to pretty graphics :D
 
Well the PC would be mainly used for gaming and Internet surfing so the extra £20 for the 256 SSD would be worth it and even then I'd keep the more basic games on the HDD and keep the SSD space for the OS and the better games.

Good to know about i5 and i7 though - my current rig has an i5 and I never found it an issue but don't want to get a new machine and find out I made a mistake somewhere.
 
Ok so after reading the advice I currently have:

Windows 8.1
Aerocool V3X Evil Black Edition Case
Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz (3.9GHz turbo)
Gigabyte Z97-HD3 (Socket 1150) ATX Motherboard
8GB DDR3 RAM 1600MHz
Samsung 250GB 840-Evo Series SSD
Seagate 1TB HDD
AMD Radeon R9 270x 4GB Graphics
Realtek 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)

Comes to £815 which is a happy number and looks solid enough although no option to upgrade to 16GB of RAM and OC replied saying that can't be changes is only downside.
 
My only defense to the GPU question is umm... yeah my knowledge might not be quite what I expected. Damn model numbers etc gets confusing.

Any way.. last question I promise and slightly unrelated, to help fund this I plan to sell my old machine but have no clue what it's worth. I can format it and re-install the OS to make to ready too. the specs areL

Intel® Core™ i5 750 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 8MB Cache) - LGA1156
Genuine Windows 7™ Home Premium Edition - English
Midi Tower XGS Gaming Chassis - Black / Red Mesh + 700W PSU[upg £ 45.00] ***
ASUS P7P55D LE Mainboard - Intel Core™ i5 / i7 - LGA 1156 / ATX
4GB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM - (2x2GB)
500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer
Samsung 22x Dual Layer DVD Writer Super Format +R/-R/RW/RAM
1GB ATi HD4890 Graphics accelerator DVI, DirectX 10.1 PCI Express 2
52-in-1 Multi-format Memory Card Reader (ATX)
7.1 High Definition onboard sound card - for 8 Channel Cinema sound

Any idea what it's worth second hand?
 
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