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stanleythedog

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I'm planning to buy a PC for playing games like War Thunder and Civilization V at medium settings. Please no suggestions (I don't live in the US, I can't order stuff online, and this PC comes as a package), just yes or no- will it be enough? The PC I'm thinking of has:

Processor: Intel® CoreTM i5-4670 3.4GHz Haswell

CPU fan: Arctic Cooling Freezer 13

Motherboard: GA-H87M-HD3 chipset H87I-E, VGA, DVI, HDMI

RAM: Kingston 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz

Graphics card: Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce GTX650 2G-5

Hard drive: Western Digital Blue 1TB SATA3 7200RPM 64MB

Optical drive: LG SATA DVD X24

On-board 5.1 channel audio

On-board 10/100/1000

Power supply: Seasonic 520W S12II-520 Bronze +80

Case: CoolerMaster Force 500

 
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BigBadBeef
Cruical memory will get you some bucks off the memory cost, since you will not be overclocking you won't need arctic cooler, I think WD green is even cheaper than WD blue.

That will get you some extra money for which you can spring for an H97 chipset, new tech is always good, and also I think there will be enough for a little stronger graphics card... maybe R9 270X?

Do that and I think you will not only get low-med settings, but high to ultra settings in most games at only the fraction of a price difference.

And if you also like, you can try an exotic option and go for a Xeon E3-1231v3, which is i7 performance at the same price.
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Eduello

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I think so, that graphics card is not that powerful, but that CPU is, and those games are pretty CPU intensive, and don't require very much from the GPU.
 
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Cruical memory will get you some bucks off the memory cost, since you will not be overclocking you won't need arctic cooler, I think WD green is even cheaper than WD blue.

That will get you some extra money for which you can spring for an H97 chipset, new tech is always good, and also I think there will be enough for a little stronger graphics card... maybe R9 270X?

Do that and I think you will not only get low-med settings, but high to ultra settings in most games at only the fraction of a price difference.

And if you also like, you can try an exotic option and go for a Xeon E3-1231v3, which is i7 performance at the same price.
 
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he said it comes as a package...so he can't really swap parts out...

but to the OP's point..yes that should be enough.
 
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