What one is better for gaming?

Matthew1202 · Jul 6, 2015

Hello. I'm new to PC gaming & looking to get into it. I've came across 2 PC's that are in my price range. Can someone please tell me what one would be better. Games I want to play are world of tanks, football manager, cities skylines, euro truck simulator & batman arkham knight.

PC 1 (£656)
AMD FX-8350 AM3+ 8 CORE 4.0GHZ CPU
8 GIG DDR3 MEMORY
1TB HARD DRIVE SATA
GIGABYTE SKT-AM3+ 990XA-UD3 MOTHERBOARD
VTX3D 2GB RADEON R9 380 GDDR5 GRAPHICS CARD
5.1 CHANNEL HD AUDIO
ASUS DVD±RW 24X DRW
ZALMAN CASE MID Z9 BLACK
CORSAIR PSU 650W CS GOLD MODULAR

PC 2 (£619)
Corsair Carbide Spec-01 Case
Corsair CX 500W PSU
Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Processor overclocked up to 4.6Ghz
ASUS H81M-PLUS Motherboard
8GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600MHz RAM
Nvidia GTX 960 2GB Graphics Card
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB Solid State Hard Drive
Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATAIII 7200rpm Hard Drive
High speed DVD and CD Rewriter
7.1 Surround Sound Audio
1 Front & 4 Rear USB 2.0 and 1 Front & 2 Rear USB 3.0 Ports
Gigabit Ethernet

Darkbreeze · Jul 6, 2015

The AMD unit with the R9 380 would be my choice. There's quite a few games that won't even play on the dual core Pentium or without a work around on some titles. The 8350, while not my first choice on a gaming CPU, is a far better option than the G3258 despite it's age.

IntelTurtleFan · Jul 6, 2015

This build beats both in gaming.
Note does not include OS but a major gaming improvement.

Also if you do get one of the above builds they both have crappy PSU's and some other parts are not ideal or worth.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£138.31 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97-D3H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£80.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£46.98 @ Novatech)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£32.40 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (£264.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: NZXT H230 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX TS 650W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£57.07 @ More Computers)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.06 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £680.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-06 05:42 BST+0100

Darkbreeze · Jul 6, 2015

Yeah, but he's clearly looking for a prebuilt unit. You can always replace either of those crappy PSUs with a quality unit once they die, which probably won't be all that far down the road.

Matthew1202 · Jul 6, 2015

Thank you both very much for your help on this! I'm now leaning towards the unit you'd go for darkbreeze. Still gonna take alittle time and think about it.

Darkbreeze · Jul 6, 2015

Good luck however you choose to go. If you decide maybe you want to build it yourself, let us know.

Matthew1202 · Jul 6, 2015

Darkbreeze :

One more question...

The game I'll be putting most of my time into will be World Of Tanks. Would the AMD unit with the R9 380 be able to handle & run the game perfectly? If so I'll get that rig. Here are the recommended system requirements for WoT.

Thanks agin!

Darkbreeze · Jul 6, 2015

Yes, it will probably run it at very high settings if not ultra.

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