Is this system good enough for Game Development?

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VAN D00M

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Hi

I'm looking for a system that I can start developing games with as this is my study. I'm particularly looking at CryEngine 3 and Unity.

I've been offered this system for £115. I know the tech is quite dated and only just exceeds the minimum requirements but I'm asking is how fast is this? I should probably mention this comes with a monitor.


Processor: AMD athlon 64x2 Dual core processor running at 3Ghz

Graphics: ATI radeon HD4850 with latest drivers installed (as shown in picture above)

RAM: 2.25gb

HardDrive:Samsung HD321kj 300GB internal sata 8mb 7200rpm

Wireless: Edimax 802.11n Wireless Pci card

CD/DVD: HP DVD1040 DVD/CD rw



Thanks
Harry
 
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What is your budget?
For 350 pounds you can come up with quite a decent budget PC.
Tip: Look for LinusTechTips and Austin Evans on YouTube, they have quality tutorials which should give you a general idea of what you want qua parts.

As for the price, I think it is quite a bit for such an old system.
I got mine for 270€ / 222.88 pounds, it has a Phenom X4 955 3.2ghz, 8 gigs of ram, Ati Radeon 5850, 1Tb WD green Sata ii, 64GB Corsair SSD (forgot the name), 600w PSU (it is a bad one though), Antec 300 case, Asus m5a97 le r2.0 MB and a few extra's like blue fans / fan control.

I'd say for the price you are being you aren't getting a lot of "system". You can always buy a very very cheap system with for ea. an i3 which is one sale and put in a GPU manually (look if the PSU can handle it though).

Hope this helps you out a bit,

~ BnG

PS: Yes, the system is used ofc... ><
 
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Mmmmmm, ok. Taking both on board.
Was just thinking, my dad has two of his old desktops from years back. Could it be as cost effective just to upgrade one of those?

Also, doing this I've got to make sure what's compatible with what and such like. Which I'm a bit nervous about. I've got the skills to do it however.
 
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Mixing and matching stuff from them to get a new build would help.
Those old HDD'S could save you some bucks. Even the case could. And the fans. Try finding a decent $400 rig and Subtract case, fans and storage.
 
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Depending on your budget, you could indeed, as Soumil said, take 1 of the cases + fans, the HDD's and maybe the PSU (depending on the quality, brand etc).
The HDD's will be a bit slower compared to newer ones ofc... You might want to upgrade those later.

I don't know the exact specs for game development??? But you might want to look at an APU (the a10-7850k can run bf4 on 30 fps steady), the a10-7850 costs around 160€, idk how many pounds though.
But you might find a used CPU + GPU cheaper for that money... (depends on your preference).

For 250 pounds you can put together a pretty decent system if you have some used parts already like HDD, case , (PSU).

If you need any detailed help, let me know =)
 
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