Just Curious about a Gaming PC

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Dextron

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When looking at gaming PC's the most important component is the graphics card. (of course the CPU is also important but an i5 @ 3.0 GHz is decent)

Nvidia Graphics are divided into series (500,600,700...), the higher the series number, the more modern the card; and into actual models (780,770,760...), the higher the model number the better the card within the series (780 better than 770 better than 760...).

The card in your example is a 620, which means it's bottom of the line, albeit fairly recent.
For gaming you should try to fit a Graphics card that is as good or better than the 650.
 
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CaptainHowdy

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Thank you. I was going to try and build a computer but due to my impatience of waiting for parts in the mail I decided to get a prebuilt and just upgrade it as I go. My price limit is $600 at the moment. Any way either of you could go through the bestbuy website and point me in the direction of a gaming PC in my price range that would be able to run newer games relatively smoothly.
 
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CaptainHowdy

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Thank you. I was going to try and build a computer but due to my impatience of waiting for parts in the mail I decided to get a prebuilt and just upgrade it as I go. My price limit is $600 at the moment. Any way either of you could go through the bestbuy website and point me in the direction of a gaming PC in my price range that would be able to run newer games relatively smoothly.
 
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Best will be to build your own instead of prebuilt, are you willing to do that?
 
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ethereal essence

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if you don't mind having bad performance until you upgrade it, it would do ok. but you'd probably have to upgrade the power supply, the site doesn't state the wattage of it... also... i just love the little typo that makes that pc seem better to the semi-informed consumer.... there is no gtx 620.... seeing as how more ppl know that gtx>gt than they know what models are in the gtx series.....

to answer your question, no can't find anything around 600 for you.... but there is this on new egg if you don't mind going with an amd processor.... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227476 it isn't the greatest amd out there, and wouldn't be able to play games at the highest settings but it would get you started.

if you don't mind playing at incredibly low settings on games 2 years older or what not, you could go with the that best buy one you found, then upgrade the power supply and graphics card to something much better.

however, you'd get more bang for your buck by building your own. you could build a pc around an apu (say an a10 5800k or 6800k depending on how long it would take you to upgrade to a graphics card) and get some fast ram and get better performance for 600.
 
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ethereal essence

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in fact i just put together a build with an amd a10 6800k on newegg.com with 8gb of 2133 mhz ram, 500w power supply (comes with the case so ymmv on actual wattage) 1 tb wd blue hard drive, and windows 7 premium 64 bit OEM for around 650.00 tax and shipping included. that would do you far better than any store bought pc for the same price since retail pcs tend to use slow ram and old mobo chipsets (for the most part anyway) and power supplies, although admittedly, i picked up a case with a power supply as well, until you get a good graphics card it will do the job though.

this pc would give you plenty of room for improvement (you can just drop in a gtx 650 ti later on and get a major boost in performance) and until you upgrade, you'll be running the integrated graphics of the a10 which will run some new games pretty smoothly at lower graphics settings
 
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CaptainHowdy

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Thanks for all the advice dudes. I'm going to post the PC I went with and I know that the CPU, GPU, and PSU will need to be upgraded I just wanted something for the time being to get me started.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Desktop+-+8GB+Memory+-+500GB+Hard+Drive/6980021.p;jsessionid=61ADE5291957316E8FE641E793EC5733.bbolsp-app02-184?id=1218818471270&skuId=6980021&st=ibuypower&cp=1&lp=8
I have plans on when to upgrade just not completely sure what I should get to upgrade CPU wise. I'm going to get a gtx 650 ti after I get a new PSU.
 
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