Games Computer for Xmas?

notakid

I've done a search honest before posting as I thought what Im asking would have been asked a 100 times before!
But I couldn't find anything.

My 15 year old daughter has asked for gaming computer for Xmas now I think they would be around 700 pounds for a good machine. I'm not prepared to pay anything close to that and have suggested that she has a games console as it would be much cheaper!

However she is adamant, she has a basic dell 2g at present which isn't up to playing games.

My question is can I build/buy a decent gaming computer for a couple of hundred quid or am I on a hide to nothing? I'm happy to buy a new processor, graphic card and memory and add it to her computer but will it be more than that to upgrade?

DCFC79

What kind of gaming does she do, i take it when you say gaming at a cost of £700 you mean games like WOW and the sims and the like. Depends what the current machine is and if you could add a new g/card and new ram.

globalds

notakid wrote: »

My question is can I build/buy a decent gaming computer for a couple of hundred quid or am I on a hide to nothing? I'm happy to buy a new processor, graphic card and memory and add it to her computer but will it be more than that to upgrade?

Post up as much information about what you already have.

Monitor , keyboard as well.

Then it is time to find out off the daughter what kind of games she wants to play.

I take it she is a student ? this may help for operating systems.

notakid

Hi here are the details. The monitor is a dell 19 inch flat monitor around 4 years old and the same with the keyboard.


Operating System
MS Windows XP Media Center Edition Professional 32-bit SP3
CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 51 °C
Windsor 90nm Technology
RAM
2.0GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 251MHz (4-4-4-12)
Motherboard
ALiveNF6G-GLAN (CPUSocket) 50 °C
Graphics
DELL E197FP (1024x768@60Hz)
1024MB ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (XFX Pine Group) 61 °C
Hard Drives
244GB Western Digital WDC WD25 00JS-75NCB3 SCSI Disk Device (IDE) 37 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H553A SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
USB Audio Device