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April 23, 2014 9:28:59 PM

Okay, s I have never built a PC and I wanna try gaming on it to see if I would like it or not so I want something thats good, but very cheap so would this be fast enough to play Day Z

HP Compaq dx2400 Microtower with an HD 5670
300W LiteOn power supply
LightScribe DVD Drive
Intel Pentium 2.5 Ghz Duo Core
HD 5670 1 GB GDDR5
2.5 GB RAM
80 GB SATA HDD

P.S. Im probably going to get 4GB RAM

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April 23, 2014 9:41:57 PM

It's recommended (according to the official AMD website) that you have a 400W Power Supply with HD 5670. You'll have people tell you that is overkill but just a heads up that it's not officially recommended.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/5000...

I would definitely go for 4GB ram like you say.

You can see here how the 5670 compares to other video cards, in raw benchmark based heir-achy.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=...

A couple websites showing specific game performance

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/graphics-cards/354787/at...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHSIwkUg0Zg

If your playing RTS games your CPU may be a bit low. What are you hoping to play?
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April 24, 2014 7:35:32 PM

MrCloudDenton said:
It's recommended (according to the official AMD website) that you have a 400W Power Supply with HD 5670. You'll have people tell you that is overkill but just a heads up that it's not officially recommended.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/5000...

I would definitely go for 4GB ram like you say.

You can see here how the 5670 compares to other video cards, in raw benchmark based heir-achy.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=...

A couple websites showing specific game performance

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/graphics-cards/354787/at...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHSIwkUg0Zg

If your playing RTS games your CPU may be a bit low. What are you hoping to play?


I wanna play Day Z or something with low setting but I dont want lag. I know this wont work so what would you reccommend?
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May 6, 2014 12:57:27 PM

MahlilJohnson said:
MrCloudDenton said:
It's recommended (according to the official AMD website) that you have a 400W Power Supply with HD 5670. You'll have people tell you that is overkill but just a heads up that it's not officially recommended.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/5000...

I would definitely go for 4GB ram like you say.

You can see here how the 5670 compares to other video cards, in raw benchmark based heir-achy.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=...

A couple websites showing specific game performance

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/graphics-cards/354787/at...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHSIwkUg0Zg

If your playing RTS games your CPU may be a bit low. What are you hoping to play?


I wanna play Day Z or something with low setting but I dont want lag. I know this wont work so what would you reccommend?

day z is a game that takes a lot of processing power and 4 gb of ram is kinda low if i were you would try finding a way to expand my budget. even on lowest setting i dont think you could run day z with smooth fps with what you have there
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