PC for Casual Gaming

Yoda

Journeyman
Hi,

1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Answer: Watching HD movies (720p / 1080p)
Games like... (Purely casual gaming)
GTA V
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Star Wars Battlefront
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
Metal Gear Solid 5
Galactic Civilizations 3
Fallout 4

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Answer: 50000/- (max. can extend + 5000/-)

3. Planning to overclock?
Answer: No

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Answer: Windows 10 Pro (64 bit)

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Answer: 2 TB (Western Digital)

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Answer : 21/22 inch Full HD Monitor (using HDMI cable)

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Answer : NIL

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Answer: Within a month

9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Answer: Done by Assembler

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Answer: Bangalore. Plan to buy local at SP Road. Open to online shopping if not available locally

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Answer:
As of now I don't plan to buy a dedicated graphics card. But I would like to keep that option open for later.
I'm ok playing games in low settings / mid range settings

I have a config. What is the approx. cost and readily available in Bangalore ?

CPU: AMD A10-Series A10-7870K
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88X-D3HP
RAM: G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3 8 GB (DDR3-1600/PC3-12800)
PSU: Seasonic S12II 620 Watts PSU
Cabinet: Cooler Master Chassis FORCE 500 Cabinet
HDD: WD Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive
DVD Writer: Asus DRW 24B3ST DVD R/W
Monitor: HP 22XW
Speakers: Logitech Multimedia Speakers Z213
Logitech MK200 Keyboard & Mouse Combo
UPS: APC BX600CIIN UPS

Please share your comments
Also please suggest a good Graphics Card under 10000/- (this is only an option)

Thanks
Yoda
 

bssunilreddy

Chosen of the Omnissiah
Budget - 62.7k (Modified)

ProcessorIntel Core i5 4460
13,000
Motherboard
MSI H97M-G43
6,600
MemoryKingston HyperX Fury 8GB 1600MHz
3,000
Graphics CardZotac GTX960 4GB DDR5
17,500
Power SupplySeasonic S12II 520w
4,800
CabinetCorsair SPEC-01
3,500
Internal StorageWD Caviar Blue 1TB HDD
3,500
Optical DriveAsus DRW 24B3ST DVD R/W
1,000
MonitorDell S2216H 22" LED IPS
9,000
KeyboardLogitech MK200 Keyboard & Mouse Combo800
Mouseincluded in combo0
Total62,700
 

whitestar_999

Super Moderator
Staff member
for casual gaming nvidia 750Ti for 10-11k is more than enough.it is not a good idea to use WD green drive as primary/os drive so better get a smaller size fast hdd(500gb WD blue) or a ssd & use 2tb WD green as secondary/storage drive.
 

whitestar_999

Super Moderator
Staff member
op said "casual gaming" & "willing to play games in low/mid settings".I am not a gamer but shouldn't a 750Ti be able to handle GTA V at med settings:
GTA 5 on gtx 750 ti [Solved] - Gtx - PC Gamin
 

Lincon_WD

WD Official
Hi Yoda,

Overall i like your PC build but I also noticed that you chose a WD Green as your storage. As far as I know, the WD Green is used for data storage, or can be used as a primary HDD if your computer is for low-end computing, like word processing. If this is for graphic use like gaming or video editing, I would recommend either a WD Blue or WD Black instead. Or another storage option is to have an SSD as a primary drive and a big HDD for secondary. For better performance and for life of your system, you just add a liquid cooling system on it.

Hope it helps.
 
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Yoda

Yoda

Journeyman
Thanks a lot to all for suggestions and recommendations :)

Using only AMD A10-Series A10-7870K is it good enough to play above mentioned games in Low / Medium settings smoothly (without dedicated graphics card) ?
 
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