Buying a Used PC

[NikolaStama]

I am currently in the market for a used PC , the prices in my country are terrible! but I managed to find this build for 300 euros which is around 333 dollars. I plan on doing 720p gaming on medium-high settings on games such as CS:GO , Dota 2 , League of Legends , Battlefield 3-4. Will it be enough? the GPU is 

MSI

Radeon R7 260X 2GB GDDR5 R7 260X 2GD5 OCV1 AND I WILL BE DOING TURBO BOOST ON THE CPU

[kirby99_2016]

A 260x is definitely more that enough for 1080p gaming in my opinion

[Guest]

Should be fine for those games. Even got some RAM there

[doomsriker]

You will probably be fine. if necessary, upgrade the graphics card later. Cpu should be fine much longer than the GPU.

[Guest]

Surpasses BF4 minimum spec, should do nicely.

[NikolaStama]

What kind of fps should I be looking at on CS:Go on medium-low settings at 720p , is this okay for the price?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, NikolaStama said:

What kind of fps should I be looking at on CS:Go on medium-low settings at 720p , is this okay for the price?

60+ for sure

[Guest]

Here is a benchmark at 1080 (I believe maxed out) with weaker CPU

 

[NikolaStama]

6 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Here is a benchmark at 1080 (I believe maxed out) with weaker CPU

 

Yeah thats at 1080p at high/very high , i'm guessing it will go over 150 on my settings because of the cpu , resolution and settings.

[NikolaStama]

Soon I will be buying a used rig and i'm wondering how I will be able to test it. To see if all the parts are working fine and that the temps are fine. If you could recommend a program that can do these things.

[Guest]

HWmonitor

MSI Afterburner

Core Temp

AIDA64 for stress test

dxdiag for specs list lol

 

Also benchmark

Cheap and fast is Novabench

Also Unigene Vanelly

3dMark 

 

 

[NikolaStama]

What should the Idle and under load temps be on that rig in the previous post?

[nitsuga5124]

Cinebench r15 for the cpu test.

Aida64 for a Stress test to see if the system is stable

If the graphics card is good, try doing a firestrike or Ungine Vally.

Look on CPU-z if everything is right

User benchmark software to compare with other computers with same specs.

[SnowyMus]

There's MemTest86 (free) for testing RAM if you want, and it's typically an overnight test, though you need to boot into it rather than run it as a program. I'd also look at benchmarking utilities like 3DMark (one of the benchmark tests is free), Unigine Heaven/Valley (free), etc. There's also AIDA64 and Prime95 which are used just for CPUs. I'd also check tools like MSI Afterburner or HWMonitor as they can monitor system temperature.

 

9 minutes ago, NikolaStama said:

What should the Idle and under load temps be on that rig in the previous post?

This will depend on your specs, but typically temperatures at or under 80 C are fine. Stress tests will heat up your components hotter than you'll normally have them under load, anyway. Don't worry so much about idle temperatures unless your components are also overheating when idle.

[doomsriker]

Step 1: locate fire extinguisher

 

Step 2: Remove side panel

 

Step 3: Extinguish fire

 

Step 4: cleanse pc in tub of water

 

Step 5:  60fps 4k ultra 

[dizmo]

It would be ok but I wouldn't think about playing anything intensive on it. It struggles with a lot of older, intensive titles.