Is this computer suitable for gaming?

[Onno_R]

Hellu !

I'm planning to buy this pc: https://m.bol.com/nl/p/acer-aspire-mc605-i5-desktop/9200000014002150/ and i was wodering if its good for gaming.


Since the page is in dutch , here are the specifications:

intel i5 processor
Processor speed: 3.1 GhZ
1 TB Memory
6 GB Ram
Video card : Nvidia GeForce GT620 2048 MB

I think thats kinda much the important stuff.

What i basically wanna do with it is to record a FPS in HD
The game is called WolfTeam and its kinda old and not very high graphics.
Its comparable with CS and Soldier Front.

So my question is if this pc / videocard is good , and if i can do with it what i wanna do.

 

[lehtv]

No, it's not. GT620 is not a gaming graphics card. The CPU is good though.

Please answer: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=80121

 

[RayTheKing]

GT 620 is an amazing graphics card for Minesweeper and Solitare! I get 90 FPS at highest settings!

Joking aside, that GPU is bad. HD 7750 or GTX 650, which are several tiers above the 620, are probably the bottom line for PC gaming. What's your budget limit OP? Plus, what resolution will you be playing on?

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Video card : Nvidia GeForce GT620 2048 MB

That's just not going to cut it for gaming. For HTPC perhaps, but NOT gaming.

HD 7750 or GTX 650, which are several tiers above the 620, are probably the bottom line for PC gaming.What's your budget limit OP? Plus, what resolution will you be playing on?

This^^

If you're on a shoestring budget an Athlon X4 750K + HD7750 is very hard to beat for value here in Europe...

 

[Onno_R]

My budget is just 600 euros :/ this one's 599 haha
I just want to record in HD for the game 'WolfTeam' , low graphics.
Example vid: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9iOH3KR9E
Not planning to play cod or anything.

I can also get a pc with i7 , 2tb , 6 gb ram but the vid card is on board intel hd 4000 which is terrible.

Hope to hear from you soon.

 

[lehtv]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=80121

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Playing and recording WolfTeam on 1080p

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
600 €

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
the Netherlands

6. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
all peripherals, I assume? please confirm

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
default

8. What resolution, not monitor size, will you be using?
1080p

9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
please fill in

X. Do you need to purchase any software to go with the system, such as Windows or Blu Ray playback software?
please fill in

Finally, are you willing to build your own PC from components? Note that you do not have to have built a PC before to be able to do it. It isn't difficult.

 

[fralexandr]

if it's just going to be for wolfteam, any core i era intel integrated (westmere/sandy/ivybridge/haswell) would be fine. :S

http://wolfteam.aeriagames.com/overview/sysreq
that's a really old game...

 

[Onno_R]

I found the same pc, but with AMD Radeon HD 8470 (2 GB) vid card. Is it better? And its not just to play WolfTeam, its to record in HD.

 

[lehtv]

No, it's still terrible for gaming. The way AMD card numbers work: the first number is the card generation, although in this case generation 8 is just rebranded generation 7 for OEM systems. The second, third and fourth numbers indicate the performance of the card, and *400 series cards are the lowest performing in each generation. *500 series have some potential gaming performance at very low resolutions, *600 series at medium resolution with low details, and it's only the *700 series that have any sort of respectable gaming performance. On your budget a 7750 should be doable if you build your own PC.

 

[fralexandr]

That is also not a gaming card. Also, you don't need a dedicated graphics card to record wolfteam in HD.

 

[Onno_R]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=80121

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Playing and recording WolfTeam on 1080p

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
600 €

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
the Netherlands

6. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
all peripherals, I assume? please confirm not gonna use old parts.

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
default

8. What resolution, not monitor size, will you be using?
1080p

9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
please fill in i have no clue how.

X. Do you need to purchase any software to go with the system, such as Windows or Blu Ray playback software?
please fill in
I gues so , ya
Finally, are you willing to build your own PC from components? Note that you do not have to have built a PC before to be able to do it. It isn't difficult.

yes,

 

[lehtv]

Question 9 isn't about building it, it's about the WHEN part. I.e. do you want the PC immediately or 2 months from now.

EDIT:

And by "not gonna use old parts" do you mean you have no monitor, keyboard or mouse either? Peripherals = monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers... i.e. everything that is not the PC itself

 

[Onno_R]

So whats this PC building? I could do that. Ty for everyones help btw

 

[Onno_R]

Question 9 isn't about building it, it's about the WHEN part. I.e. do you want the PC immediately or 2 months from now.

Well inmediatly , like within a week.

 

[fralexandr]

do you have links for your preferred online shops?

 

[Onno_R]

bol.com
Mediamarkt.nl
Dixons.nl
Alternate.nl < good one

 

[Onno_R]

Ok guys. I changed my budget to 700 dollars.
I designed my own pc on a website and got this:

Cooler Master Elite 431 .
500 Watt Cooler Master
AMD FM2 A6-6400K Dual Core
MSI FM2-A55M-P33
Asus Xonar DG
8GB DDR3 Ram
1000 GB SataIII Harddrive
DVD Brander
AMD Radeon 7770 1GB
1Gbit network card
22 Inch LG 22EN43T-B Full HD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

Is it good ? My parents will pay for the screen, and i got a gamermouse / headset and keyboard. This brings me at 700 euros. Do you guys think its good?

 

[fralexandr]

the graphics card in that build is the integrated 8470d
A6-6400K:
AMD Radeon HD 8470D

and the a6-6400k is weaker than the core i5

so overall it has worse specs/performance than the computer in the op. It does have higher quality components though...

edit: with the 7770 it should be ok, the a6 is still a weak gaming processor though

have you tried speccing with the intel budget gaming?

building a computer isn't too hard, mostly you just find the slot/plug that fits and plug it in. The trickiest part is usually the motherboard. You could probably build something better for 700 euros (i5 w/ nvidia 660 2gb). It can take a few hours if you don't know what you're doing though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWkH_8b1Q9Y

 

[frozentundra123456]

Ok guys. I changed my budget to 700 dollars.
I designed my own pc on a website and got this:

Cooler Master Elite 431 .
500 Watt Cooler Master
AMD FM2 A6-6400K Dual Core
MSI FM2-A55M-P33
Asus Xonar DG
8GB DDR3 Ram
1000 GB SataIII Harddrive
DVD Brander
AMD Radeon 7770 1GB
1Gbit network card
22 Inch LG 22EN43T-B Full HD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

Is it good ? My parents will pay for the screen, and i got a gamermouse / headset and keyboard. This brings me at 700 euros. Do you guys think its good?

If you are going to build it yourself, with a HD7770 gpu, you would be much better off with something like the athlon X4 750 that someone else mentioned already. Most people today do not recommend a dual core for gaming, even a relatively fast intel dual core. The cpu portion of the A6 is very weak for gaming, and the best part of the processor, the igp, is going to waste if you buy a discrete 7770. That athlon x4 750 with a HD7770 would actually be a quite decent gaming system.

 

[bononos]

You can save a little by using the onboard audio instead of the xonar.

 

[mfenn]

Ok guys. I changed my budget to 700 dollars.
I designed my own pc on a website and got this:

Cooler Master Elite 431 .
500 Watt Cooler Master
AMD FM2 A6-6400K Dual Core
MSI FM2-A55M-P33
Asus Xonar DG
8GB DDR3 Ram
1000 GB SataIII Harddrive
DVD Brander
AMD Radeon 7770 1GB
1Gbit network card
22 Inch LG 22EN43T-B Full HD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

Is it good ? My parents will pay for the screen, and i got a gamermouse / headset and keyboard. This brings me at 700 euros. Do you guys think its good?

I think you can do a little better.

FX-6300 110 eur
ASrock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 74 eur
GeiL DDR3 1600 8GB 57 eur
GTX 660 168 eur
Seagate 7200RPM 1TB 59 eur
LG DVD Burner 17 eur
CX500 55 eur
CM Elite 310 34 eur
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 110 euro
Total: 684 eur

 

[Onno_R]

-nvm-

 

[Onno_R]

-nvm-

 

[Onno_R]

Ok i found a very good pc ( i gues )

" http://www.dragoncomputers.nl/compo...d,0/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,72/vmcchk,1/ "

I think this pc is very good for gaming.
539+100 for windows = 639, nice price.

What do you guys think?

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Ok i found a very good pc ( i gues )

" http://www.dragoncomputers.nl/compo...d,0/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,72/vmcchk,1/ "

I think this pc is very good for gaming.
539+100 for windows = 639, nice price.

What do you guys think?

If you're not comfortable with building your own system, that's fine. We where all beginners once...

About that system. Other then the odd pairing of an AMD APU and a Geforce GTX660, I don't see anything wrong in that sense. But doing a bit of digging I think I found something much better:

http://www.dragoncomputers.nl/compo...acturer_id,0/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,72/

That system is about as basic a gaming system as I'd be comfortable recommending. The Geforce GTX650 is about as fast as a Radeon HD7770. It also gives you a lot of "upgradeability" if you want to swich the GFX card for something faster in a few years. Or perhaps upgrade to an SSD and add more RAM.