£700 PC for Gaming/Multimedia

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bartsome

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I need a £700 PC with monitor, keyboard, mouse and OS for £700.
Currently I have the HP Pavilion p6-2487ea with i5-3350P, 8GB Ram, 2TB HDD, W8, GT-630 2GB for £580 with a 1080p Full HD monitor.
However, after asking some people I learned that the GT 630 won't be able to play games such as BF3 on 1080p on medium settings.
So does anyone have any better prebuilt systems? Thanks in advance.
 
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Uther39

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Rubbish GTX640 and has no monitor like you requested.

 
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bartsome

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I'm not going to be playing that many games so it's not too bad and also I can just get the monitor separately.
 
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I'd agree with the others here, although you say you won't be playing games much having a low end graphics card will severely limit what games you can play. having a 630 or 640 means that you can play more "casual games" like the Sims and Need for Speed but if you want to play the big graphics/title games so to speak like BF3 and Guild wars 2 you'll need to get a PC with a better graphics card, if you try and play BF3 on a 630 you'll have to put the settings very low and may be too slow/ugly to play (it's hard to retaliate when a blurred pixel on the horizon starts shooting you).
Buying from a custom PC company rather than a mainstream brand like HP and Dell means you can customise the setup and bump up the graphics card power.

I've specced up a PC on PCspecialist.co.uk and could get a 23 inch 1080p monitor, AMD quad core, 8GB RAM, 1TB hard drive and a AMD 7850 graphics card for £665, which would run circles around the HP computer you were originally looking at. annoyingly I can't show a list of parts I chose but this is just an idea of what you could look out for.

EDIT: here is a link to a custom PC with all parts selected for you. it's not as good as what you can do manually but if you're not willing to choose individual parts then this is the next step: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/view/Crysis-3-Pro-PC/
 
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james97cheung

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I don't want to come across as a douche but can someone please explain to me why you would buy a pre-built system over choosing the right balanced parts and saving cash?
It really isn't hard to replace a graphics card and I'm just a kid :)
 
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it's all about how much time you are willing to put into learning PC building and balancing out risk. for example I personally would be fine building my own PC, but I definitely would not try and service or repair my car myself and would pay someone else (a mechanic) to work on the car. sure you can do small jobs like replace the wipers, which is kind of like putting a graphics card in but I wouldn't trust myself to do a full service on my car in the same way you may "expect" someone to build their own PC.
 
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james97cheung

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Fair enough, I guess that makes sense :) Nice analogy btw
 
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