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Yes I know it's pre-built. My parents probably wouldn't trust me with buying my own parts plus I'm a noob with this stuff.
My birthday is coming up soon and I'm not expecting to get much but my parents might agree on buying it if I pay for half of it.
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I just want to play these games at around 40-60 FPS on medium settings or something.
I'm also gonna be using it for school and everyday tasks so it's not just gaming for me.
If you have any suggestions on what else I should get for roughly the same price (300-400GBP), please feel free.
If you want to suggest builds (not pre built), you can do that too.
My birthday is coming up soon and I'm not expecting to get much but my parents might agree on buying it if I pay for half of it.
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I just want to play these games at around 40-60 FPS on medium settings or something.
League of Legends
Minecraft
Possibly DayZ
Maybe Battlefield 3 on low
Minecraft
Possibly DayZ
Maybe Battlefield 3 on low
I'm also gonna be using it for school and everyday tasks so it's not just gaming for me.
If you have any suggestions on what else I should get for roughly the same price (300-400GBP), please feel free.
If you want to suggest builds (not pre built), you can do that too.
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It's that bad? Can you elaborate as to why please?
Also I don't think I could go as much as 400GBP but maybe around 350...
My birthday is in around a month so I'll do some research too.
What settings would your build be able to play on the games I listed above?
Also I don't think I could go as much as 400GBP but maybe around 350...
My birthday is in around a month so I'll do some research too.
What settings would your build be able to play on the games I listed above?
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It'd play the games you've listed on atleast high settings.
Explanation for that PC:
It's an APU. Not a top of the line one either. It has poor integrated graphics which weren't at all designed for gaming. Fair enough it has 8GB RAM, but that's the only good thing about it. The case is horrid, it probably doesn't have an OS and the PSU is most likely junk as they all are in those type of systems.
It'll have 0 upgradabillity without you basically rebuilding the whole thing from scratch with exceptions to the HDD, case and RAM.
The build I gave you is far superior in many ways:
It's Intel
It has a discrete GPU
Z97 Motherboard
8GB RAM (same but still better)
Quality PSU
Better case
350 won't get you as much, if I were you I'd wait. It'll be worth the wait, trust me.
Explanation for that PC:
It's an APU. Not a top of the line one either. It has poor integrated graphics which weren't at all designed for gaming. Fair enough it has 8GB RAM, but that's the only good thing about it. The case is horrid, it probably doesn't have an OS and the PSU is most likely junk as they all are in those type of systems.
It'll have 0 upgradabillity without you basically rebuilding the whole thing from scratch with exceptions to the HDD, case and RAM.
The build I gave you is far superior in many ways:
It's Intel
It has a discrete GPU
Z97 Motherboard
8GB RAM (same but still better)
Quality PSU
Better case
350 won't get you as much, if I were you I'd wait. It'll be worth the wait, trust me.
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You can't really call that a "gaming PC" without a dedicated GPU.
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That's a great little starter kit.Overclock the Pentium. The R9 270 can be overclocked to the standards of the R9 270X. Once you have more money, upgrade to an i5/i7 and you could upgrade the GPU. At this point, I'd wait until new GPU's are released before upgrading. Building isn't hard. I was a n00b when I built my first PC and it took me 45 minutes to get it up and running. Watch YouTube videos and learn what you're doing then you'll have no troubles. If you do, I'm sure the members here would be glad to assist with any issues.
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That's a great little starter kit.Overclock the Pentium. The R9 270 can be overclocked to the standards of the R9 270X. Once you have more money, upgrade to an i5/i7 and you could upgrade the GPU. At this point, I'd wait until new GPU's are released before upgrading. Building isn't hard. I was a n00b when I built my first PC and it took me 45 minutes to get it up and running. Watch YouTube videos and learn what you're doing then you'll have no troubles. If you do, I'm sure the members here would be glad to assist with any issues.
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I second the pentium, its a brilliant little runner which doesn't in anyway hold back a reasonably high-end GPU.
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I know it's pretty much the same but is this any better? It's more specific with the parts as well. Just check the description for the parts.
16GB RAM
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8GB RAM
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Say I did buy it and I got a dedicated GPU, would it be able to run the games I stated above on at least medium, maybe high?
And what graphics card would you recommend for this PC?
16GB RAM
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Say I did buy it and I got a dedicated GPU, would it be able to run the games I stated above on at least medium, maybe high?
And what graphics card would you recommend for this PC?
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No matter what you suggest, if it comes from eBay then it isn't very good at all.
Both Bork and Sanctorum have provided good builds, I suggest you go with one of them.
Both Bork and Sanctorum have provided good builds, I suggest you go with one of them.
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