Are these specs good for a gaming PC?

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Are these good specs for a gaming PC?

I would like to play games like Battlefield 3 (and Battlefield 4 )and Crysis 3 on middle to high settings but won't be overclocking.

CPU Intel i5 3570 (4 x 3.4 GHZ) - Ivy Bridge
CPU Heatsink Intel Heatsink & Fan - Low Noise
RAM 8 GB 1333 MHZ (2x4GB) - (DDR3)
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 6670 - 1 GB - (PCI-E)
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H (Intel B75) - VGA/DVI/HDMI
Sound Card Motherboard Integrated HD Sound
Networking Wireless LAN 54Mbps (PCI)
Expansion Cards 4 x USB 2.0 Ports (PCI)
Power Supply 350W PSU
Hard Drive 500 GB SATA-II HDD 7200 RPM 16MB
Optical Drive Samsung 24x DVD/CD Re-Writer/Reader - Black - (SATA)
Card Reader Internal Card Reader 50-in-1
Microsoft Windows 8 Standard 64 BIT (Genuine DVD & COA Included)

I don't know a lot about PCs and this is my first one for gaming

 

[SHORYUKEN]

What's your budget?

 

[D B 1]

What's your budget?

It costs about £740

 

[SHORYUKEN]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£153.20 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H77 Pro4/MVP ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£68.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£41.92 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£50.05 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£73.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Club 3D Radeon HD 7870 XT 2GB Video Card (£171.62 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£47.92 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.13 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£68.35 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £745.18
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-29 22:08 GMT+0000)

This will max out BF3.

 

[euphoria4949]

Hi, what resolution will you be playing at???

But based on that spec you posted, assuming you will be running at 1080p, the CPU is perfect, the RAM is perfect, (Unless it's very cheap, £$9.99 off eBay stuff). The motherboard, well it's ok it would do the job.
BUT, the main thing when building/buying a gaming PC is the Graphics Card and the 6670 is a budget graphics card, (Sorry).
For example, you said you wanted to play Crisis "3" on high settings, well the 6670 on Crisis "2" could only manage 25fps (Frames per second) on only medium to high settings, which would make the game pretty unplayable, or at least very unenjoyable. 60fps, or as close to is the sweet spot.

But, let me know the resolution and I'll be able to offer more advice in more detail.

 

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£153.20 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H77 Pro4/MVP ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£68.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£41.92 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£50.05 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£73.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Club 3D Radeon HD 7870 XT 2GB Video Card (£171.62 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£47.92 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.13 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£68.35 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £745.18
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-29 22:08 GMT+0000)

This will max out BF3.

If possible I would prefer to have it custom built. I found these specs on computer planet but if there are better alternatives for anything less than £750 then it would be appreciated.

 

[euphoria4949]

Also, when you say custom built, do you mean getting a shop to build it for you???

 

[SHORYUKEN]

Don't get it custom built.

 

[euphoria4949]

Here try this, the CPU is brilliant and perfect for gaming. The graphics card will be able to handle BF3, Crisis 3 e.t.c. on high settings at 60fps all day long. The power supply and motherboard give you the option to add a second graphics card in the future.
It would make a very nice rig.

If you really wanted to save some money, I suppose you could go down the line of swapping out the i5 for an AMD, you can get an old Phenom 965 3.4Ghz quad core for around £60 now.

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/N6Dh
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/N6Dh/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/N6Dh/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£166.79 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£66.00 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£45.38 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial M4 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£86.01 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card (£185.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply (£56.64 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.13 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£68.35 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £745.29