Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Are these good gaming pc specs for what my son wants?

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Christel


I was hoping someone could shed some light on if these gaming pc specs would be good enough for what my son wants to do with it. He's asked for a gaming pc for his graduation gift but we're not exactly made of money so I asked him for a few details on what he hopes to do with his PC gaming wise! (Yes, I have -some- knowledge of gaming and gaming rigs but not much!)

Now he wants to be able to play games such as Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, World of Warcraft, Mass Effect 3, Guild Wars 2 and most of all the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online game on high settings with a smooth framerate. We've spotted a reasonably priced PC that is custom built for 400-500 with the following specs:

AMD FX4100 Quad Core 4x3.6GHz
Asus Motherboard
500GB HDD
8GB DDR3 (1333 MHz)
GeForce GT630 (1024MB DDR3-VGA-DVI-HDMI-DirectX 11)
Windows7 Home Premium 64Bit

My question is of course... will this be sufficient for what he wants? Any reply from those knowledgeable about this kind of stuff would be very much appreciated!



Answer
Yes, it's a reasonable gaming PC, enough to play Skyrim and such games at high detail and a smooth framerate.

The video card is the most important piece when building a gaming PC, and this computer's video card isn't exactly high end (it being a GeForce GT630, a budget video card), but it will be enough to play games such as Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3 and other such games at high detail. Although I find a 500 GB hard-drive more than enough, some people might want a larger 1 TB ( which is 1000 GB) hard drive.

Again, a 500 GB hard drive has no say on how fast he can play games, just the amount of data (such as games, music and videos) he can store in the computer at any given time. I say buy it, but only if you're sure the price is fair.

The video card might be a problem in the near future, (games in 2013 and 2014 will get more resource-intensive) But the video card may be upgraded if absolutely necessary with a newer one for future gaming. Other than that, it looks good.

Can I use GIGABYTE z77 motherboard with gigabyte 7970 GHz edition ?




Ali


I want to upgrade my gaming PC from XFX 7950 black edition to gigabyte 7970 ghz edition but I dont know about my motherboard can I upgrade it with out change my motherboard?
My PC specs:
CPU : I5 4670 k .
RAM : 8GB
PSU : 750 W
Thank you .



Answer
Yes that upgrade is fine. Motherboards which support Core i3/i5/i7 processor (even first generation) are compatible with all PCI-E x16 cards on the market.

However unless you're getting some amazing deal, the HD 7970 isn't the best value any more. The new GeForce GTX 770 costs $400 and outperforms the older GTX 680 and HD 7970 Ghz edition.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6994/nvidia-geforce-gtx-770-review/12
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_770/9.html
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2013/05/31/nvidia-geforce-gtx-770-2gb-review/5




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