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Hi
Eldest kid is in Y7 and her ICT schoolwork seems to be suffering as all we have at home is a 6 year old MacBook and an ipad.
GF and I reckon we should probably buy a win doze desktop and naturally I'm sniffing an opportunity for fun!
It's ages since I played any decent PC games so what would be the minimum spec to run whatever is the current multiplayer shooting, fighting, killing game?
More to the point where to buy it?
Overclockers or ebuyer or anyone else?
Not interested in screwing it together myself so a ready to roll unit would be good.
GF reckons we have 500 quid
It may be possible to push that to 800 with some man maths
Cheers
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Ok, so I just built a gaming machine, setting myself a limit of "the cost of a xbox one" (£440). I had a spare HDD and win 7 licence already, but I came in under £400. It's fast enough to play anything I've tried maxed out at 1080p 60fps...some stuff it won't quite, but you get the idea:
pentium G3420 (dual core haswell, 3.2gig)
8Gb ram
GTX760 2Gb
fractal design core 1000 case
Asrock mobo
Decent zalman PSU
wireless xbox pad.
As you have a little more budget, i'd spend on a GTX760 with a better cooler (asus one supposed to be good), mine's a reference one which is a little noisy. Should still fit that in with a windows license and HDD under £500.
I put it together myself tho.... you'll pay a premium for someone to do that for you obviously, but it gives you some idea.
Basically I sunk all the money into the GPU so I could get something that should max out most games at 1080p, (£155), 8Gb ram seems a little overkill for what I've played thus far, so could save £30 there...
No optical drive because i'm not into spinning disks like an animal.
If you're driving a lower res screen you could skimp on the GPU - mine's hooked to my telly and boots into steam big picture mode.