PC Spec for BF3?

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Ok, now I've got my brothers PC sorted, I'm after one for myself.

I know this type of thing is usually fitted in General Hardware but I have more of a question in terms of how the following build would handle games like Skyrim and BF3 on max settings:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-307-OE&groupid=43&catid=2385&subcat=1270

£460 inc vat, would I get more value for money if I build my own? Would that price get me a PC that would play the latest games perfectly fine?

Thanks
 
Omaeka said:
For Skyrim on max settings, avoid AMD mate, the cards don't much get on with it.
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Have to disagree there chap, my 6950 copes very well with Skyrim. When it first came out not so much but now after all the patches it runs very well on AMD cards. BF3 also now runs well on AMD cards
 
Stuttered quite abit on a 6850 and then even worse a 7950. Go figure.

The 7xxx series recently got a big boost in Battlefield 3 performance though, but I think that'd be out of OP's price range? Loads more value out of a custom build yeah, try a z76 and a 2500k, put a cheap 1gb card on it and you'll get playable framerates on medium which is still a great looking game. Although you can't do all that much with £460 tbh, unless you have a PSU, RAM, Case etc already?

Looking at that Vortex i3, you're best off taking the question into the CPU section and asking what an i3 would do to a 7850, might bottleneck etc.
 
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BF 3 runs very well on my MSI 7850 2GB OC @1080p (CPU is i5 750), could play with everything on max pretty much. For multiplayer I play with mesh set to ultra amongst a few other things and the rest set to high and a couple of things set to medium i.e. shadows, SSAO and I don't use MSAA as I use sweetFX instead (looks better and not as much of a performance hit), could turn stuff up but I like for there to be slow down during multiplayer and plus there is too much crap floating around etc. with ultra anyway this harder to see people :p

No idea about skyrim.

Have played Far cry 3, hitman absolution, max payne 3, sleeping dogs etc. all on max settings (a custom config for F3 though, shadows on medium and postfx disabled with a sweetFX config), no slowdowns at all.
 
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This is why I've stayed away from PC's for so long, they're so expensive! It's annoying when £460 isn't considered to be enough, to me that's such a crazy amount of money... Half my months wages! Haha.
 
It isn't a bad spec for gaming, although not sure what the i3 is like. BF 3 likes quad core CPU and I would imagine the same for skyrim.

You could do much better if you built it yourself though!
 
Nexus18 said:
It isn't a bad spec for gaming, although not sure what the i3 is like. BF 3 likes quad core CPU and I would imagine the same for skyrim.

You could do much better if you built it yourself though!
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If I pushed the budget up to £500, what could I get? Only thing I wouldn't need is a Sata HDD.
 
A bit over your budget, but it would be worth it IMO (future proof)

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Someone else here could probably pick a cheaper motherboard, PSU or/and perhaps even change the CPU to something else.

You could save yourself quite a bit of money if you were to get a GPU from the members market.

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Although if it is only for those 2 games and if you don't spend much time gaming then personally I wouldn't be spending that much either. Comes down to how many games you would be playing and how often each week.
 
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Yeah but how much gaming usage? :p

It is up to you after all :) If you like gaming and game a good 10-20 hours each week or even more! then I would spend around £500-600 on a PC

The above that I suggested would be plenty for gaming @ 1080P and has some room for future proofing i.e. crossfire/SLI etc.
 
Nexus18 said:
Yeah but how much gaming usage? :p

It is up to you after all :) If you like gaming and game a good 10-20 hours each week or even more! then I would spend around £500-600 on a PC

The above that I suggested would be plenty for gaming @ 1080P and has some room for future proofing i.e. crossfire/SLI etc.
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Yeah I think I would defo get 10-20 hours in a week.

I'm very tempted... I haven't had a new PC for ages and I think it's long overdue now!
 
Is there anything I could cut back on to get the budget to a flat £500? Just got to allow myself some room for a few extras.

Current PC Spec is:

E6750 2.6Ghz
4GB DDR2
8800GTS 768MB

Very dated now!
 
Okay, without the cooler and with that cheaper RAM I've got it down to £497.

I really won't be intending to overclock, can't I save a bit on the mobo?

Cheers
 
Definitely long over due! :p

Yeah, as said, other people could probably take/replace stuff, I haven't followed any of the latest PC stuff for a while now so not sure what is the best for value etc. I would stick to GB or MSI for MB though, ASUS have terrible customer service.

What case do you currently have?
 
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