800 to 1000 gaming PC

[strykr14]

Hello,

I am looking to buy a PC that'll play games decently. I am playing world of tanks now on my inspiron 570 and it plays at the lowest settings and is a PITA. Would like to get something and I'm thinking a grand should be a good price point that should get me a solid PC. But there are a hell of a lot of choices so I'm looking for suggestions.

Thanks!

 

[Edsterr]

Is that £ or $?
And are you buying a pre-built system or building it yourself?

 

[strykr14]

Sorry, forgot the $ sign - it's on dollars - I would be willing to go from $800 to $1200, monitor not included. Looking for a pre-built system.

 

[strykr14]

What abouty something like this:

iBUYPOWER Intel® Ivy Bridge core™ i7-3770K Processor 4x 3.50 GHz 1TB HDD

Price...$1,029.00

Processor: Intel® Ivy Bridge core™ i7-3770K Processor 4x 3.50 GHz, Socket 1155, 8MB L3 Cache
Chipset: Intel Z77 Chipset w/ USB3.0, SATA-III, CrossFire supported
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB Dedicated VGA


Main Memory:

• 8GB (2GB x4) DDR3-1600 Memory
• Total Memory Slots: 4
• Available: 0
• Max Capacity: 32GB

Hard Drive: 1TB Serial-ATA-III 6Gb/s 7200rpm Hard Drive

Optical Drive: 24X DL DVD+/-RW Drive
LAN: Atheros GbE LAN Chip (10/100/1000MBit)
Audio: VIA VT2021 Codec 8 Channels HD Audio
Chassis: ARC CS-501 Mid Tower Gaming Case – Black
Processor Cooling: N/A
Power Supply: 600Watt Power Supply

The system I have now is a Dell Inspiron 570
AMD Athlon II X2 250 processor 3.00GHhz
6 GB Ram
1TB HD
Integrated Radeon HD4200 video card

Thought of upgrading but not sure if better video card would help so I thought it better to buy a new PC.

Thanks!

 

[ja6on]

if its purely for gaming, look at the I5 3570k and the 7850 hd.

But the rest looks good.

 

[strykr14]

Will do - what about adding a vidoe card to the Dell? Worth it?

 

[ja6on]

No not really worth addin anything to the dell, unless u see a 5770 Radeon or above cheap on eBay.

 

[strykr14]

I found a refurbished 5770on Ebay for 85 bucks. The card in the compuer above, the 7750 Radeon is on Ebay for $119. Not much more. Is it a decent card?

 

[ja6on]

The 5770 To be fair, no not really. It'll play skyrim on mostly high settings with the HD pack installed with a little overclocking tho. I bought my second one for 40 pounds on eBay. Not sure what that is in dollars. Bout 65 I think. I wouldn't pay 85 tho.