Hi,
I am looking for a new PC, something that can play Overwatch, Dota 2, Civ V, Rust, Battlefield etc. My old PC is dying and hoping to take advantage of this Ebay deal.
My budget is anything under $600. I am not savvy in this area so any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
For under $600 you are not going to get something that can run Overwatch or Battlefield very well. What can you salvage (if anything) from your old PC to bring down the price? Best option would probably to look on Gumtree for 2nd hand gaming rigs that people are upgrading from.
i can help you build something at that price that will run at least overwatch pretty well
For you budget your best bet is find someone who knows and buy second hand.
Sadly the CTEC20 sale is not as good as the previous one. There were some i7 2600k desktops for around $250 then just add a video card and you'd have been sweet :( Maybe hold off if you can't afford it right now or keep an eye on the second hand facebook groups for parts.
Best bet is to buy this PC for $511.2 after the 20% off
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Intel-6th-Gen-Quad-Core-i5-6400-3…
Then add this GPU to it for $160
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Asus-nVidia-GeForce-GTX-750-Ti-2G…
Comes in slightly over budget at $671.2 but it's the best you'll do at that price point.
Otherwise if you are absolutely set on $600 then get this PC for $431.20:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AMD-4-Core-A10-7860K-4-0GHz-1TB-8…
plus the video card comes to a total of $591.2
With this PC + video card you should be able to play Battlefield on the Lowest settings and Overwatch on Medium with no worries.
You could get something like this:
Used Lenovo ThinkCentre ~$200 (i7, 8GB RAM)
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lenovo-ThinkCentre-M91-Intel-i7-2…
and add an SSD $89.60 after discount
http://groupbuy.ebay.com.au/deal?itemId=361637161835
GTX 960 $303.2 after discount
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Gigabyte-GeForce-GTX-960-OC-4GB-V…
Total price $592.8 and would offer fantastic performance for gaming and desktop computing :)
Just put your hard drive from your old PC into this one since the 250GB drive it comes with is kinda small.
Would need a new power supply as well. Those ThinkCentres only have a ~280W unit from memory. Might possibly be able to get away with a 750TI if you wanted to be frugal.
Something like this would work nicely.
Oh yeah crap I overlooked that. Still even replacing the PSU this is probably the best value you can hope to get.
Look for second hand i5 and i7 systems that are sandy bridge or newer that aren't small form factor (or get an original socket 1366 i7/i5/i3 system and replace the cpu with an x5670) then chuck in a video card.
Second that. The (usually) ex-lease sandy bridge systems are great. Much better than the generic "Pentium G3258 budget build" for a lot cheaper.
The non-SFF Dell Optiplex 790/980 systems on eBay are also great.
Also, for your accidental post below, just need to edit it and type in "Mods please delete." Once you click post, it'll give the option to unpublish. Very good feature I found recently.
@donnot: Yeah the pentium builds are horrible suggestion, the sandy/ivy bridge cpus are still very comparable to the latest gen as Intel have just focused on power reductions and smaller dies rather than a focus on increasing performance. To get higher performance you would have to invest in the Intel extreme platform which is hugely expensive. For people looking at doing stuff like cad work and video editing I point them towards preowned ex lease workstations that can run multiple cpu and then I just say to get the x5650 / x5670 depending on budget. Can't beat them for the price :)
Accidental post, delete
Are you able to build it yourself? Do you need a monitor/peripherals?
Whirlpool has a list of recommendations although it hasn't been updated in a month or so: https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_sg_whirlpoolpcs_gaming_con…
Always best to search www.staticice.com.au as well to ensure you're getting the lowest price. Also be aware buying via eBay rather than in person at a store may mean extra costs if you need to return/RMA/warranty.