System for my son for gaming

timboellis

timboellis

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My son is looking for a new desktop but must be able to play Gary mod / Mine craft and some of the newish games on Steam, I have a Win 7 licence so thats not an issue.
Seen this Intel i3 Ivy Raid" Intel Core i3 3220 Ivybridge Dual Core Gaming System.

Would this be okay or would i need to upgrade it.

Basically looking to spend £400 but could go to £450

Any suggestions on this with upgraded components or another system all together?

Thanks

Tim
 
went a little over:


YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £129.95
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £92.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £49.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £47.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £40.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £475.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
If you decide to get the Foxconn mobo, you need to ask OCUK to update the bios for the IB Cpu. Unless you have a SB cpu you can use to update the bios yourself.

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £129.95
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £92.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-257-SE) £45
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £40.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £39.95
1 x Foxconn H67M Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £34.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £449.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).



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Hi,

You obviously want a pre-build so the suggestions of build it yourself are not too applicable here.

The Ivy raid system is a solid buy. I would personally make the following ammendments on the drop down options:

- Upgrade the RAM to 8GB
- Upgrade the GFX to Nvidia GTX 650Ti 1GB
- Upgrade the HDD to a 1TB

So you now have double the memory and Hard drive space and a considerably faster graphics card which can play newer games more easily.

With these options the system comes to £441.00 inc VAT, so below your £450 budget.

Obviously it doesn't come with windows but you mentioned above that you already have a copy of Windows 7 :) Just make sure it is a 64 bit copy to take full advantage of the memory upgrades.
 
NathWraith said:
Hi,

You obviously want a pre-build so the suggestions of build it yourself are not too applicable here.

The Ivy raid system is a solid buy. I would personally make the following ammendments on the drop down options:

- Upgrade the RAM to 8GB
- Upgrade the GFX to Nvidia GTX 650Ti 1GB
- Upgrade the HDD to a 1TB

So you now have double the memory and Hard drive space and a considerably faster graphics card which can play newer games more easily.

With these options the system comes to £441.00 inc VAT, so below your £450 budget.

Obviously it doesn't come with windows but you mentioned above that you already have a copy of Windows 7 :) Just make sure it is a 64 bit copy to take full advantage of the memory upgrades.
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This is a really good recommendation but there is an alternative.

We have an AMD based version of this system and whilst this will be slightly slower for non-gaming operations, if you went for this you could afford to make the following upgrades:
- Upgrade the RAM to 8GB
- Upgrade the HDD to a 1TB
- Upgrade the GFX to Nvidia GTX 650Ti Boost 2GB

The graphics card is the key and the newer Boost 2GB version of the 650Ti is noticeably quicker than the non-boost 1GB
 
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