A good PC for gaming?

[T@R]

I'm in need of a new PC because my current one can barely handle habbo, let alone decent games, so I've decided to invest in a new one, the only problem being, I have little to no computer knowledge and I've no idea what kind of 'specs' to be looking for, so does anyone wanna help me out or just point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance!

[Luke]

Budget? Seeing as you have no knowledge, you probobly don't want to build it yourself either..

[AgnesIO]

Budget? What sort of games?

Also, habbo not working is far more likely due to a shoddy internet connection, so a new PC won't help that.

[Chippiewill]

Generally any desktop computer nowadays will do for general gaming.

If you're serious look for this list of key words:

(# Being a number)

- i7 / i5
- Sandy Bridge
- nVidia GTX###
- ATi Radeon HD 68## / 69##
- SSD / Solid State Drive
- Water Cooling
- DDR3
- 'Hardcore Gaming'
- 3ghz
- 500 Gigabytes
- Windows 7

Basically any new computer at around £750 or more will probably satisfy this criteria

Avoid these:
- Laptops
- All In One desktops
- Touch screen
- Macs (You can argue all you like, steam blah blah, gaming is moving, blah blah. w/e, macs still suck for gaming.)

And that is the foolproof guide to buying a computer that can run Crysis at a decent FPS.

Edit:

Budget? What sort of games?

Also, habbo not working is far more likely due to a shoddy internet connection, so a new PC won't help that.

Reminds me of those good ol' days when Habbo was laggy because they had terrible servers and the entire hotel population would be spamming 'laaaaaaag' for five minutes.

[Agnostic Bear]

- 'Hardcore Gaming'

This should be avoided like the ******* plague. Nothing that advertises itself as "Hardcore Gaming" equipment is ever good, it's just horrible markup on a most likely mediocre product.

[Chippiewill]

This should be avoided like the ******* plague. Nothing that advertises itself as "Hardcore Gaming" equipment is ever good, it's just horrible markup on a most likely mediocre product.

everyone knows that a sticker on the side of a computer saying 'Hardcore gaming' will make it run 1337% faster... mmk.

Seriously, yeah you're probably right. Not sure why I added that to be honest.

[Arch]

Generally any desktop computer nowadays will do for general gaming.

If you're serious look for this list of key words:

(# Being a number)

- i7 / i5
- Sandy Bridge
- nVidia GTX###
- ATi Radeon HD 68## / 69##
- SSD / Solid State Drive
- Water Cooling
- DDR3
- 'Hardcore Gaming'
- 3ghz
- 500 Gigabytes
- Windows 7

Basically any new computer at around £750 or more will probably satisfy this criteria

Avoid these:
- Laptops
- All In One desktops
- Touch screen
- Macs (You can argue all you like, steam blah blah, gaming is moving, blah blah. w/e, macs still suck for gaming.)

And that is the foolproof guide to buying a computer that can run Crysis at a decent FPS.

Edit:


Reminds me of those good ol' days when Habbo was laggy because they had terrible servers and the entire hotel population would be spamming 'laaaaaaag' for five minutes.

just curious why you say avoid laptops ?

[peteyt]

just curious why you say avoid laptops ?

No matter how much you spend on a laptop you can always get a PC with better specs and probably cheaper. Laptops are smaller while as with a PC and a tower, you can fit larger equipment inside it. Of course laptops are getting more advanced all the time, but they will never supersede the desktop.

If your wanting a new computer its best to work out what for first. You could spend loads of a really good gaming computer, but if your only going to play a couple of games that aren't really that high end, it's probably not worth it.

I also recommend if you can, get someone to custom build your computer. If your a high end user, one issue with retail computers, is they often come with crap you don't need and sometimes try and lower stuff so you don't get the full potential. I have heard there are decent websites that do custom builds but I sadly don't know any but I'd recommend finding out - the good thing is you can get rid of what you want and have a computer for you really.

[Chippiewill]

just curious why you say avoid laptops ?

Desktops are designed for power.
Laptops are designed for portability.

It's pretty obvious.

[T@R]

Oh good this is when I wish I had some form of computer knowledge,
I was looking at spending about £500 ish, and I don't mind buying preowned, but yeah I think I'll avoid building one myself D:
Thanks for the replies guys, I almost forgot about this!

It's quite funny the gap between the people who are technologically intelligent and those who aren't D: