Gaming computer

[Stonker]

My son wants to buy a gaming computer. He has a budget of £5-600 in his head. It would be useful if he could play bluray etc in his bedroom but gaming is his priority. He plays mainly simulator games, the list he's given me is:

Farming Simulator 2013
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Call of Duty
Grand Thefy Auto
etc

Can anybody recommend which machines he should be looking at?

 

[mikey5]

gaming pc

As an avid gamer myself those games you mention are not going to seriously test the limits of any of the modern machines . but as a father myself i can assume he will want to graduate to more extravagant and technically hungry games so its wise to get a pc that has some future proofing built in
i would reccomend you look at this site

http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/LandingPages/DreamPC/


and choose a system powered with an Amd quad core or better chip, with at least 6gb of ddr3 ram and a graphics card in the £80 to £120 range the case size should be a mid tower dont bother with lights or extra fans as you can add later if you like
hope this helps a little as getting into pc gaming is a pandoras box and can be as expensive as you care to go
cheers Mike

 

[Pukmeister]

I built my lad a decent gaming PC for that kind of money using parts from Novatech, (they also sell ready-built gaming PC's. )

His spec is:

Asus main board, AMD 6-core FX processor, 8GB RAM, western digital 2Terabyte HDD and a samsung Blu-ray rewriter, AMD Radeon 7850 graphics card, 600w Novatech gaming power supply, Novatech alloy tower case. Already had a spare copy of Windows 7 to install on it. Cheap keyboard and mouse from ASDA. It runs anything he can throw at it including Call Of Duty, Sniper Elite, Diablo 3 etc with no lag or dropped frames at about 70fps with all graphics features maxed out.

For call of duty you'll need a powerful graphics card so do your homework. The second number in Radeon cards number is the important bit, a good card starts around £100.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/gaming.html

For my money I would buy:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/novatechblacknta09.html

 

[Stonker]

OK, thanks for the replys. He's working now so he's actually buying the PC himself. I guess he would also want to watch bluray DVDs but I guess that's not too much of a challenge in today's market.

Will he also be able to output to the computer monitor or an HD TV?

 

[Pukmeister]

Will he also be able to output to the computer monitor or an HD TV?

Absolutely, assuming he fits a half decent graphics card. The Radeon HD cards have several outputs, usually DVI-D and HDMI which can connect to modern flat screen displays and TV's. The better cards can also drive multiple monitors simultaneously for the ultimate gaming experience.

 

[Stonker]

Another recommendation was the scan G20 or 30. How do they compare?

Is building it yourself an option?