Finally have a clear plan for buying my gaming PC.

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#91693661Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:23 PM GMT

I'm planning to start with a mediocre prebuilt (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229362) and upgrade the GPU. If there are any flaws with that plan, could you guys point them out? Now I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive yet still decent monitor. Any recommendations as far as that goes? (Live in U.S.)

Samastrike

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#91693999Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:30 PM GMT

Yes, one small problem; the GPU. A geforce 610 really will be terrible for gaming, try and get at least a 640.

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#91694122Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:33 PM GMT

@Sam "And upgrade the GPU" can you read?

TheAsassin

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#91694141Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:33 PM GMT

Yep, I was definitely planning to replace it. It's just a matter of when. I'll probably swap it out the moment I have the cash.

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#91694319Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:37 PM GMT

I personally don't see why people say a GeForce 610 is "terrible" for gaming. I have a OLD mobile intel card that only has 126MB Dedicated video RAM and uses shared memory for the rest, and it can run games like Tribes: Ascend on lowest settings. I'd think that the GeForce 610 with 1GB video RAM could do much better.

TheAsassin

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#91694495Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:40 PM GMT

Well, I suppose it works for light gaming. It's still not quite up to par with what I'm looking for, though.

spear593

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#91698675Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:47 PM GMT

Get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883258017 I don't have any faith in AMD processors (more cores but each less usable = bad gaming) and the 1TB harddrive is a good selling point. Same gfx card to boot.

TheAsassin

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#91704328Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:53 PM GMT

I'm slightly nervous about buying a weird brand no one's heard of, though.

kevin753

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#91704786Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:58 PM GMT

cyberpowerpc is a pretty big site, almost everyone knows who they are. luckily newegg always has a lot of cyberpowerpc computers on sale. for the price it seems like its ok, its just i would never use or recommend windows 8 for gaming, and im not a big fan of amd cpus

spear593

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#91718959Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:21 PM GMT

The problem with buying from a no-name maker is that you may need to return (not a huge hassle) and wait a few weeks. Otherwise it's da bomb

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#91726290Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:34 AM GMT

i see another problem aside from the gpu; the psu cyberpower uses crap psus not exactly a necessity, but it's better to be safe than sorry get something like this and you'll be fine www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139027&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=