- Mar 13, 2014
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Hi - confused mum here!
My son wants a newer, faster computer than the old desktop we have. He mostly wants to play minecraft, and he has a budget of around £200. I've been offered two for roughly this price.
The first has a republic of gamer motherboard, 6gb ram, 500gb harddrive, AMD quad core @1.8ghz with dvdrw and wifi.
The second (fractionally cheaper) is an intel q6600 core 2 quad 2.4ghz, Nvidia gt640 graphics with 3mb, 4gb ram, 250gb hard drive, wifi.
I've spent all evening looking online and although I gather neither is the 'best' cpu/gpu they look OK for the price. But opinions are divided as to whether they will run minecraft. The test site says both will work brilliantly, but the recommended specs want 2.8ghz - but that's presumably single core and I am getting conflicting info regarding the difference with quad core. I'm told the first one runs WoW fine.
So advice appreciated - which would be better, or am i being totally ripped off even at that price?
Thank you
My son wants a newer, faster computer than the old desktop we have. He mostly wants to play minecraft, and he has a budget of around £200. I've been offered two for roughly this price.
The first has a republic of gamer motherboard, 6gb ram, 500gb harddrive, AMD quad core @1.8ghz with dvdrw and wifi.
The second (fractionally cheaper) is an intel q6600 core 2 quad 2.4ghz, Nvidia gt640 graphics with 3mb, 4gb ram, 250gb hard drive, wifi.
I've spent all evening looking online and although I gather neither is the 'best' cpu/gpu they look OK for the price. But opinions are divided as to whether they will run minecraft. The test site says both will work brilliantly, but the recommended specs want 2.8ghz - but that's presumably single core and I am getting conflicting info regarding the difference with quad core. I'm told the first one runs WoW fine.
So advice appreciated - which would be better, or am i being totally ripped off even at that price?
Thank you
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