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As you may know, I'm saving for a new graphics card and I'm looking at the GTX 960 as a good card for the money that also works well with a standard 500w PSU.
But....what if I saved a bit more and bought a new PC? My CPU is not great, it's an A8 APU and it's struggling at times, the motherboard is creaky and only an FM2 and won't take anything other than the APUs due to the wonderful knobbling HP do on their Bios. So I'm thinking here's a challenge, find me a PC (on Amazon as I have vouchers making up some of my money towards it, or take £150-£200 off the maximum price) that will; a) run all the latest games at high settings or thereabouts (not necessarily ultra), b) costs less than or around £500 and c) looks pretty.
This is the best I've come up with so far:
Go!
But....what if I saved a bit more and bought a new PC? My CPU is not great, it's an A8 APU and it's struggling at times, the motherboard is creaky and only an FM2 and won't take anything other than the APUs due to the wonderful knobbling HP do on their Bios. So I'm thinking here's a challenge, find me a PC (on Amazon as I have vouchers making up some of my money towards it, or take £150-£200 off the maximum price) that will; a) run all the latest games at high settings or thereabouts (not necessarily ultra), b) costs less than or around £500 and c) looks pretty.
This is the best I've come up with so far:
Go!
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@chas ...
Why do you have those 'blue shortcut arrows' on your desktop?
Why do you have those 'blue shortcut arrows' on your desktop?
Nice shots cfh :¬)
Unfortunately, the latest Arkham Knight patch has rendered the game incompatible with Twitch and GVR, so I can't currently upload a video, but perhaps THIS and THIS might help until I am able to record a bit...
Just in case anyone thinks I'm blagging about the video content being disabled...
see the right hand side just below the "Launch Game" button...
Just in case anyone thinks I'm blagging about the video content being disabled...
see the right hand side just below the "Launch Game" button...
This isn't going to do it ... AMD integrated graphics, so no dedicated card
There are other options on the link pb, but ... future proof yourself (as if) ;¬)
There are other options on the link pb, but ... future proof yourself (as if) ;¬)
chasfh wrote:
pb wrote:
[i]chasfh wrote:
[i]Just type "FX4300" in the search bar on Amazon, then take your pick if you want a ready-made system. Avoid the "FX 4300 Bulldozer" chips, you want FX4300 Piledriver. MAJORLY important, hugely different...
However, as I said previously, the one common concession to "budget" parts that most pre-builds make is with the RAM.
Generic, unbranded RAM is NOT good...
That's why I was going with Freshtech. They've told me that all their PCs on their site and Amazon have Corsair high performance RAM.[/i]
And yet they don't label it as such on their sales pages... Seem a bit odd to you?[/i]
I'd always make sure I had it in writing first, anyway. I've got a couple of Corsair 4GB modules at the moment, so I tend to be picky with RAM.
The alternative is to just buy the graphics card at the moment, but I want to get away from using an APU.
pb wrote:
[i]chasfh wrote:
[i]Just type "FX4300" in the search bar on Amazon, then take your pick if you want a ready-made system. Avoid the "FX 4300 Bulldozer" chips, you want FX4300 Piledriver. MAJORLY important, hugely different...
However, as I said previously, the one common concession to "budget" parts that most pre-builds make is with the RAM.
Generic, unbranded RAM is NOT good...
That's why I was going with Freshtech. They've told me that all their PCs on their site and Amazon have Corsair high performance RAM.[/i]
And yet they don't label it as such on their sales pages... Seem a bit odd to you?[/i]
I'd always make sure I had it in writing first, anyway. I've got a couple of Corsair 4GB modules at the moment, so I tend to be picky with RAM.
The alternative is to just buy the graphics card at the moment, but I want to get away from using an APU.
pb wrote:
chasfh wrote:
[i]Just type "FX4300" in the search bar on Amazon, then take your pick if you want a ready-made system. Avoid the "FX 4300 Bulldozer" chips, you want FX4300 Piledriver. MAJORLY important, hugely different...
However, as I said previously, the one common concession to "budget" parts that most pre-builds make is with the RAM.
Generic, unbranded RAM is NOT good...
That's why I was going with Freshtech. They've told me that all their PCs on their site and Amazon have Corsair high performance RAM.[/i]
And yet they don't label it as such on their sales pages... Seem a bit odd to you?
chasfh wrote:
[i]Just type "FX4300" in the search bar on Amazon, then take your pick if you want a ready-made system. Avoid the "FX 4300 Bulldozer" chips, you want FX4300 Piledriver. MAJORLY important, hugely different...
However, as I said previously, the one common concession to "budget" parts that most pre-builds make is with the RAM.
Generic, unbranded RAM is NOT good...
That's why I was going with Freshtech. They've told me that all their PCs on their site and Amazon have Corsair high performance RAM.[/i]
And yet they don't label it as such on their sales pages... Seem a bit odd to you?
chasfh wrote:
Just type "FX4300" in the search bar on Amazon, then take your pick if you want a ready-made system. Avoid the "FX 4300 Bulldozer" chips, you want FX4300 Piledriver. MAJORLY important, hugely different...
However, as I said previously, the one common concession to "budget" parts that most pre-builds make is with the RAM.
Generic, unbranded RAM is NOT good...
That's why I was going with Freshtech. They've told me that all their PCs on their site and Amazon have Corsair high performance RAM.
Just type "FX4300" in the search bar on Amazon, then take your pick if you want a ready-made system. Avoid the "FX 4300 Bulldozer" chips, you want FX4300 Piledriver. MAJORLY important, hugely different...
However, as I said previously, the one common concession to "budget" parts that most pre-builds make is with the RAM.
Generic, unbranded RAM is NOT good...
That's why I was going with Freshtech. They've told me that all their PCs on their site and Amazon have Corsair high performance RAM.
Just type "FX4300" in the search bar on Amazon, then take your pick if you want a ready-made system. Avoid the "FX 4300 Bulldozer" chips, you want FX4300 Piledriver. MAJORLY important, hugely different...
However, as I said previously, the one common concession to "budget" parts that most pre-builds make is with the RAM.
Generic, unbranded RAM is NOT good...
However, as I said previously, the one common concession to "budget" parts that most pre-builds make is with the RAM.
Generic, unbranded RAM is NOT good...
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