A reasonable PC

[ardechey]

I'm looking to buy a PC for around £350. The only games I want to be able to play on high/med settings are Skyrim and WoW. Is this asking for too much with such a low budget? And if it is possible, what fps and resolution would I be able to play these two games in?

I appreciate any help or advice

 

[Tehmoe]

Do you have any HDD, or OS that you could use. I think it would be rather tough without those too. For WoW it is mostly just CPU power that you need iirc so a nice I3 should do you well.

 

[ardechey]

Do you have any HDD, or OS that you could use. I think it would be rather tough without those too. For WoW it is mostly just CPU power that you need iirc so a nice I3 should do you well.

No I don't, but I believe I can get windows 8 slightly cheaper, as I am a student.

 

[keynes]

No I don't, but I believe I can get windows 8 slightly cheaper, as I am a student.

For your budget I don't think you are going to be able to get a system that can play Skyrim at medium settings or higher at 1920x1080 resolution.

 

[Karnor00]

I'd have to agree with the others on this. About the closest I could get for a bare bones system which would run those games okay would be the following, but it doesn't have an operating system so you would need to add that to the cost (it doesn't have a monitor either, so you would also need something to watch it on).

Case
STYLISH PIANO BLACK ENIGMA CASE + 2 FRONT USB
Processor (CPU)
AMD FX-4100 Quad Core CPU (3.60GHz/4MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard
ASUS® M5A78L-M/USB3 (M-ATX, DDR3, USB 3.0, 3Gb/s)
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (1 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB AMD RADEON™ HD6670 - DVI,HDMI,VGA - DX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 16MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
350W Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan
Processor Cooling
STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £366.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/amd-bulldozer-top-spec-pc/p9ZnqteM_K/

 

[Grimezy]

To be honest I'd save up a bit and wait till you can afford something a little better. You really will be struggling with that setup and once you've added your OS to it, etc then you're going to be closer to £500 rather than £350 (I'm assuming you'll need word as well as a student). You could build something half decent for £500-£600 but I can think of nothing worse than spending £350 on a brand new rig, whacking in a new game and then having to put all my settings down to low... You might as well be playing it on an xbox or ps3.

Sorry that my post isn't very supportive at all. It's just without a decent monitor to play on, you'll effectively be playing on an xbox/ps3 anyway and the only difference will be you can't play WoW on them which is why I'd suggest waiting a little bit until you can afford something decent. Like I said, I'm pretty sure you could buy an i5 setup for £500-£600 if you tried.

 

[ardechey]

Thanks for all the advice, I'll get saving then