Is this a good gaming PC for less than £500. Prebuilt

Oran · Mar 9, 2014

My friend is looking for a PC but he doesn't want to build one, so please dont suggest that. Is there one for around £400-£450 which would be good enough for:
-Minecraft
-COD BO2
-BF3/4
-Titanfall
at decent FPS, we found this one from OCUK- http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-017-OG&groupid=43&catid=2475&subcat=2485 which comes out to £483 with Windows 7.
These are the specs:
- Case: BitFenix Merc Gaming Case - Black
- Power Supply: Super Flower 450W 80+ Bronze Rated PSU
- CPU: AMD Bulldozer FX-4 4130 Quad Core CPU with Turbo Speed of 3.9GHz
- Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-USB3.0 (Socket AM3) ATX Motherboard
- Cooler: AMD Approved CPU Cooler - RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Hard Drive: 500GB Seagate Barracuda
- Graphics Card: NVidia GeForce GT 640 4096 MB/ GT 540 1000 MB
- Sound: Realtek 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: OcUK DVD+/-RW SATA Drive

Could anyone recommend any better for pre built?

Novuake · Mar 9, 2014

1. Super Flower = junk and likely to blow up and take half your computer with it.
2. FX 4130 = not worth it.
3. M5A78L, 760G chipset that is ANCIENT and barely capable of running FX CPUs.
4. NVidia GeForce GT 640 = Overpriced horrible gaming card.
5. Uses CAS11 RAM. Which is just bad.

In other words, you can get better. Prebuilt is junk and should be avoided.

Here :

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/36Lvu
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/36Lvu/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/36Lvu/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£80.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£53.95 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£62.79 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£33.98 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card (£127.99 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Zalman Z9 ATX Mid Tower Case (£36.98 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.98 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer (£14.89 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (£74.67 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £530.62
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-09 11:52 GMT+0000)

A little more expensive but A LOT better quality and A LOT more powerful.

Just to give you an idea of how much the graphics card on its own is better than the one you have there. Here is a chart with relative performance.

Oran · Mar 9, 2014

Novuake :

1. Super Flower = junk and likely to blow up and take half your computer with it.
2. FX 4130 = not worth it.
3. M5A78L, 760G chipset that is ANCIENT and barely capable of running FX CPUs.
4. NVidia GeForce GT 640 = Overpriced horrible gaming card.
5. Uses CAS11 RAM. Which is just bad.

In other words, you can get better. Prebuilt is junk and should be avoided.

Here :

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/36Lvu
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/36Lvu/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/36Lvu/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£80.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£53.95 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£62.79 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£33.98 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card (£127.99 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Zalman Z9 ATX Mid Tower Case (£36.98 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.98 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer (£14.89 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (£74.67 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £530.62
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-09 11:52 GMT+0000)

A little more expensive but A LOT better quality and A LOT more powerful.

Just to give you an idea of how much the graphics card on its own is better than the one you have there. Here is a chart with relative performance.

i too am looking for an upgrade, is the MSI GeForce GTX 660 2GB better than this? http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-evga-gtx-660-superclocked-28nm-6008mhz-gddr5-gpu-1046mhz-boost-1111mhz-cores-960

Novuake · Mar 9, 2014

Look at the chart, the R9 270 is a little faster. Especially since its slightly overclocked and also has an aftermarket cooler.

Oran · Mar 9, 2014

Novuake :

wheres the cheapest place to get the r9 270?

Novuake · Mar 9, 2014

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GNE0CHI/?tag=pcp0f-21

Oran · Mar 9, 2014

Novuake :

thank you very much, if i pair that up with this i3, should i get very good FPS on very good graphics on all new games? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Processor-Socket-Sandy-Bridge/dp/B005JBPROY 8gb of ddr3 1333mhz ram?

Novuake · Mar 9, 2014

The AMD FX 6300 is a better option around the same price.

sora · Mar 10, 2014

Oran :

Get the FX-6300 since you have a 'budget' gaming PC build and the i3 would probably bottleneck the GPU by a bit.

Oran · Mar 10, 2014

sora :

Oran :

Get the FX-6300 since you have a 'budget' gaming PC build and the i3 would probably bottleneck the GPU by a bit.

my MOBO does not support AMD CPUs

sora · Mar 11, 2014

Oran :

sora :

my MOBO does not support AMD CPUs

Sorry, didn't realize that...

Oran · Mar 12, 2014

sora :

Oran :

Sorry, didn't realize that...

Not your fault, I didn't specify

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