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I'm after a PC to use with Bigring VR and also Zwift at some point.
Looking at this
£103.50 with new customer discount code.
I'm planning on just hooking it striaght up to the TV so not using a monitor, but i should be able to connect to the tv HDMI from the computer display port?
Would i be able to stick a reasonable graphics card (eg GTX 1050) in it at somepoint for zwift?
Also i see on amazon theres a few different manufacturers making Nvidia 1050 cards, are they all pretty much the same?
thanks
Looks good, but if you had a few quid spare I'd go 8Gb (get an extra 4 aftermarket from Crucial) and ideally clone the disk out to an SSD. Do the memory first.
Don't think the GTX1050 is a huge card regardless of who makes it so it should fit OK. HDMI > telly is just fine.
i should be able to connect to the tv HDMI from the computer display port?
You'll need an adapter.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/DisplayPort-HDMI-Converter-Adapter-Male-Black/dp/B0027HYK7S
I’d go 8Gb (get an extra 4 aftermarket from Crucial) and ideally clone the disk out to an SSD.
For playing videos?
Dont forget your ANT+ (or bluetooth) USB dongle.
Also, no problem going from DisplayPort on your PC to HDMI on the TV, you can buy a cable to do just this...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/AmazonBasics-DisplayPort-HDMI-Cable-1-8/dp/B015OW3M1W/
It is worth noting however that its not possible to go the other way round (DisplayPort monitor to HDMI on PC). I recently learnt this the hard way!
You need a decent-ish graphics spec.
It doesn't say what the integrated graphics spec is, but it would be worth finding out. The min spec is on the Zwift website.
I am running Zwift on the worlds oldest computer 🙂
It was one of the first machines running Win XP. I have upped the Ram as much as I can and managed to get it to run Win7 and spent £30 on a bare minimum GPU and it does work. Runs Zwift fairly happily on medium resolution setting wgci looks OK on a 32" flat screen TV with HDMI cable.
My biggest limitation is a max 2 mps internet connection