Is this good enough for a gaming system for my wife

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Hi guys,

I need a cheap gaming system for my wife, I'm going for a pre-built with OS for around £500 as my budget is tight.

I found this system and it looks bang on the money http://www.palicomp.co.uk/gaming-pcs/excalibur-merlin-system.html

Do you think it will be ok for her? She plays games like DayZ and ARMA and is struggling on a laptop with 10FPS at the moment. If I can get 40FPS on Medium to High I think we will be happy. (If I can upgrade the graphics card I will, but it's not looking like I will be able to stretch my budget much farther)

Many thanks for your kind advice.
 
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That looks like a terrible deal. The FX-4130 is a Faildozer CPU, paired up with an old HD6670 (probably a DDR3 version) on an older motherboard, with a no-name PSU; you can do a lot better if you build the system yourself. It won't be cheaper that way, but it will definitely be better.
I am not familiar with UK shopping sites, but I am sure a lot of suggestions will be forthcoming.
 
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n1ghtr4v3n

n1ghtr4v3n

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Hey there,

for like £500-600 you can build a much better and effective system for your wife, if you know how to build a system on your own or at least with somebody to help, including monitor/keyboard/speakers/op.system etc...

prebuilt systems are always a dead deal to me. i wouldnt invest my hard-earned money on them...

here are my recommendations for a decent budget build. your wife can do anything on it, even with the recent demanding games with decent performance. (dont expect miracles though.. :) )

or at least it will give you an idea, what to build around or even if you buy something prebuilt you can check back at it to compare prices...

they are a bit higher then your budget but you have the possibility to get a smaller size monitor or to replace gpu with amd hd7790 gpu to lower the costs a bit. it should provide you slightly less but similar performance for a cheaper price...

AMD based system;
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£59.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£24.13 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.98 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB Video Card (£139.93 @ Dabs)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 335 Upgraded ATX Mid Tower Case (£25.98 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£36.18 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£10.69 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (£67.99 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: LG E2242T-BN 21.5" Monitor (£109.00 @ Amazon UK)
Keyboard: Logitech MK120 Wired Slim Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£17.70 @ Amazon UK)
Speakers: Logitech X-140 4W 2ch Speakers (£16.11 @ Dabs)
Total: £591.67
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-05-24 13:50 BST+0100)

Intel based system;
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor (£88.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI B75MA-P45 Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£48.90 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£24.13 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.98 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB Video Card (£139.93 @ Dabs)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 335 Upgraded ATX Mid Tower Case (£25.98 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£36.18 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£10.69 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (£67.99 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: LG E2242T-BN 21.5" Monitor (£109.00 @ Amazon UK)
Keyboard: Logitech MK120 Wired Slim Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£17.70 @ Amazon UK)
Speakers: Logitech X-140 4W 2ch Speakers (£16.11 @ Dabs)
Total: £630.98
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-05-24 13:56 BST+0100)

good luck...
 
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