Budget Gaming PC

sarah3585

Hi,

I'm looking for a budget PC to play tabletop simulator. It doesn't need a lot to run but my macbook does suffer some slowdown and the fan goes bananas.

I'm looking at this for £250 with upgraded ram to the 16gb, and 'downgraded' SSD 120GB as I don't need much space.

https://www.awd-it.co.uk/awd-amd-a8-9600-3.4ghz-radeon-r7-quad-core-wifi-gaming-home-pc-system.html

System

Minimum specs are quite meagre for the game. Good job because the graphics in that PC you linked to sucks like you wouldn't believe and would be very disappointing in games. Its probably no better than onboard.

https://benchmarks.ul.com/hardware/gpu/AMD+Radeon+R7+review

You'd be better buying a non-gaming PC and adding your own graphics card to it.

cranford

Spec for this machine is for Windows 7 unless you upgrade. MS support for Win 7 ends on January 14, 2020.

Neil_Jones

Tarambor wrote: »

Minimum specs are quite meagre for the game. Good job because the graphics in that PC you linked to sucks like you wouldn't believe and would be very disappointing in games. Its probably no better than onboard.

That is onboard graphics, all those AMD processors are labelled as Radeon R7 (or R5 or sometimes R9) for their graphics, presumably because it sounds better than "some Radeon with a budget sounding name".

In fairness they are semi-decent (compared to a lot of onboard graphics through the years) but they're no replacement for a dedicated card.

System

Thanks for that Neil. I stopped trying to keep up with it all a few years ago when I got out of the sector.

stragglebod

Have a look at getting a Ryzen 2400G instead


http://hwbench.com/cpus/amd-ryzen-5-2400g-vs-amd-a8-9600


And get a decent branded power supply and decent branded SSD.



And unless things have changed in the last 6 months or so you can activate Windows 10 with a Windows 7 license.