How will this system game? Please help

[Krenrai]

Hi,


At the moment im looking into trading my gaming laptop with a gaming pc, and i was offered this;
Intel 920
XFX 7870

14GB Kingston RAM

500GB HDD

Corsair H50

Windows 7 

I want to know if this will be any good for gaming?

Thanks

[calebp123]

Hi,

At the moment im looking into trading my gaming laptop with a gaming pc, and i was offered this;

Intel 920

XFX 7870

14GB Kingston RAM

500GB HDD

Corsair H50

Windows 7 

I want to know if this will be any good for gaming?

Thanks

Someone wants to trade you this?

[piplupgao]

I think the CPU will bottleneck the GPU so you'll probably have to game at 720p.

[naca1227]

That should be good to go and run just about any game at high and get 40 frames avg I'd say (on games like Bioshock, Total War, Guild Wars, Need for Speed)

[naca1227]

I think the CPU will bottleneck the GPU so you'll probably have to game at 720p.

I think the 920 still have life in it.

[Skanic]

You know that the 920 is almost as fast as an i5 2500k?

[Krenrai]

Thanks guys :)

And yeah someone wants to trade this, apparently its in excellent condition and can still run most games.

If it turned out that it couldn't, are there any other CPU's that will run in this socket?

[piplupgao]

You know that the 920 is almost as fast as an i5 2500k?

Yea well that isn't that good either, or I've just gotten used to using overclocked extreme series processors. lol

[mvitkun]

Yea well that isn't that good either, or I've just gotten used to using overclocked extreme series processors. lol

i5 2500k is more or less the standard,it can run pretty much any single or dual graphics configuration without being the bottleneck

[mvitkun]

Thanks guys :)

And yeah someone wants to trade this, apparently its in excellent condition and can still run most games.

If it turned out that it couldn't, are there any other CPU's that will run in this socket?

what gaming laptop are you trading for this system?specs?

 

just want to know because we could give you an approximate value for your system.and for his system,and see if it's a good deal for you.

 

overall it's a pretty solid system.only things I would look into.

-is it a genuine installation of windows

-what power supply is in it (don't want some shifty power supply that craps out)

-ask to see stress tests like prime95,furmark,and some DX11 benchmarks like heaven,valley,or 3d mark run to make sure it's not half dead already

[someone]

The ram is a waste..you'll never need more than 3-4 in games...i would suggest 6-8 gigs probably on 1333

[mvitkun]

The ram is a waste..you'll never need more than 3-4 in games...i would suggest 6-8 gigs probably on 1333

he isn't buying components for the system,he's trading someone his laptop for the desktop......

[calebp123]

What are the specs of the gaming laptop you are trading?

[Guest]

that will be fine im playing on a xfx 7770 with a q6600 (all OCed) and i can play every game with the settings turned down a bit

 

crysis 3 though is minimum =P

[Quaker]

At the moment I'm looking into trading my gaming laptop for a gaming pc, and i was offered this;

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It should be good for most games. Some CPU intensive games, such as Guild Wars 2, may have lower fps on occasion (because of the 920), but overall it's fine.

To get full use out of the RAM, and since you're probably going to re-format, make sure to install Windows 7 64-bit. (Even if the original Windows is 32-bit, you can install 64-bit using the same key.)