Advice on this cheap pc

[Trix09]

Hey all, i currently play wow on my Sony Vaio laptop thats a few years old now and starting to show. My kid plays on a desktop pc which is grinding slowly to a halt with wow too.

Looking to buy a cheap enough pc for him, and possibly me too. Don't want to play wow on max settings, fair/good is fine enough for us.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/advent...itors~14553719

This one is on sale in PcWorld (in the uk) for around £300. Graphics card seems horrible but i *think* it has a slot so i can buy/install a seperate graphics card instead?

Not 100% so if someone can help and advice that would be awesome. Thanks

[Rekindled]

The G card is non existent. and the CPU is terrible.

Look for a PC in your range from retailers here

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/912692?p=11640486

and look for parts listed here

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...-Sample-Builds

[Deleted]

if you're willing to buy a graphics card to go in the system you originally posted, you may as well buy a barebones from a proper PC company and get the extras you need.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/barebonebundles/ there are some pretty decent systems to start with here. a couple of my friends have purchased some of these. they're well built and the only extras you will need are a hard drive and graphics card!

[Deleted]

Better to build yourself at that budget.

It's a nice base however, but it needs a stand-alone graphics card to be viable for gaming. (HD 2000 is integrated and comes with the CPU.) This and something like a Radeon 7770 wouldn't be an all-bad gaming machine for under £400, but the cost would be far less if you build it yourself:

Extreme Budget Gaming 380

MoBo: ASRock H61M-DGS – $44.99 CPU: Intel Celeron G530 – $48.99 RAM: G.Skill 1333MHz 2x2GB – $19.99 GPU: MSI Radeon 7770 – $124.99 HDD: WD Caviar Blue 320GB – $64.99 PSU: Antec VP-450W – $34.99 Review Case: NZXT Gamma – $39.99 Review -------------------------------------------------- Estimated Total Price – $379

Recommended for: Budget gaming build that can handle most newer games. Offers great value for money.

Extreme Budget Gaming 470

MoBo: ASRock H77M – $69.99 CPU: Intel Pentium G2120 – $99.99 RAM: G.Skill 1333MHz 2x2GB – $19.99 GPU: XFX Radeon 6850 – $139.99 HDD: WD Caviar Blue 320GB – $64.99 PSU: Antec VP-450W – $34.99 Review Case: NZXT Source 210 – $39.99 -------------------------------------------------- Estimated Total Price – $470

Recommended for: Budget gaming build that can handle most newer games. Offers great value for money.

[Milkshake86]

This is all I could come up with in the under $500 area, it is not an i5 but it sure as hell will jump everything you do up.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£70.27 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock 870 EXTREME3 ATX AM3 Motherboard (£76.39 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£25.99 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.91 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB Video Card (£90.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£64.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply (£45.81 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £420.28
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)