Out of the game for a while - £299 desktop spec

mattpj · 29 Dec 2014 at 16:51

Hey there, not had a PC in a while and I want to get a new desktop going.

I'm currently using a 2009 iMac with 4gb ram, 2.66 core 2 duo, geforce 9400 256 meg

I know that I'd like a quadcore, at least 8gb ram, don't mind if it's AMD or Intel. I would also prefer to have a graphics card that would play games at a decent res but not essential at all.

I thought I would let you spec me up because you have much better knowledge than me with the current PC market.

Thanks all

stulid · 29 Dec 2014 at 16:54

So a whole tower to play games? no OS etc?

mattpj · 29 Dec 2014 at 16:56

Don't need an OS, already got Win 7.

I don't need to play games. It's just something I'd like to include if possible.

80% of the time will be browsing and light video-editing.

mattpj · 29 Dec 2014 at 16:57

stulid said:
So a whole tower to play games? no OS etc?

Thanks for asking for further clarification btw

stulid · 29 Dec 2014 at 16:57

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £44.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £41.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
Total : £326.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Currently free shipping - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18630207

Thats about all I can think off that will have a good go at playing some games

mattpj · 29 Dec 2014 at 17:01

stulid said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £44.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £41.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
Total : £326.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Currently free shipping - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18630207

Thats about all I can think off that will have a good go at playing some games

Thank you very much for that. Didn't realise you could get a CPU with GPU cores. See, that's how long I've been out of it for!

How would you describe this performance wise?

stulid · 29 Dec 2014 at 17:03

mattpj said:
How would you describe this performance wise?

It will certainly browse the internet, you get OpenCL acceleration support from the graphic core so that may help in applications that support it.

As for games it should do 1080P at medium settings on most titles, apart from say BF4 which you will either have to drop the settings to more "low" or the resolution.

mattpj · 29 Dec 2014 at 17:06

stulid said:
It will certainly browse the internet, you get OpenCL acceleration support from the graphic core so that may help in applications that support it.

As for games it should do 1080P at medium settings on most titles, apart from say BF4 which you will either have to drop the settings to more "low" or the resolution.

That's put it in plain english for me. Thanks again mate.

stulid · 29 Dec 2014 at 17:07

If you are thinking about putting cheaper and slower speed RAM in, dont.

APUs rely on the fast RAM for the graphics core and it has a dramatic effect on the frame rate.

mattpj · 29 Dec 2014 at 17:16

stulid said:
If you are thinking about putting cheaper and slower speed RAM in, dont.

APUs rely on the fast RAM for the graphics core and it has a dramatic effect on the frame rate.

Really appreciate the advice