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Suggestions on parts chosen for low budget gaming build

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August 22, 2013 8:50:47 AM

I'll start off by apologising as I realise that hundreds of these types of threads get posted but as someone who is looking to build a PC for gaming on a budget for the first time I was wondering if somebody could help point me in the direction. I'd like the spend to be as low as possible (about £250? not including case, PSU, monitor, speakers, M/KB ect ) but no idea if this is realistic. I only really want to play most titles and am not too fussed about graphics, although 720p/1080p on some games would be nice, also I have access to Windows 8 so will likely use that as my OS. I've chosen these parts so far but I wanted to ask for a few more opinions first.

Motherboard: MSI FM2-A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 750K 3.4GHz Quad-Core
GPU: Asus Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR5
+ 4GB RAM

Thanks.

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August 22, 2013 9:17:36 AM

Well, it is and it isn't. You can play most titles but it will be very hard to run games next year because the age of the GPU by then. So if your going to play games like GMod and Minecraft, its good but if your going to play a upcoming title (EG : CoD Ghosts), you have no chance in hell running it in 720p even with low settings. Here's an example :

Imagine that I had the best GPU in the world and I purchased it in 2005, I could run games like TF2, COD4 and high graphical titles at that time (Max settings above 60FPS). Then when I try to run something like minecraft which is 2011, the GPU fails badly and it peforms slower then a £50 GPU from 2011.

So its a good low budget rig but I would invest a lot more money if your going to play future titles ;) 
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