Hi, My sole purpose of my future PC is to game with it. So I have the Acer aspire X1700 and my plan would be to put all of the components in a bigger case. For the graphics card I would go for a Nvidia GTX 750 TI from EVGA. And I would upgrade the RAM memory to 8 GB.
The power supply is a 220 W, would that be enough? And the CPU, Intel core 2 quad Q6600 with 2.4 GHz, would this be a case of bottlenecking? Would I by the way be able to play Just Cause 3 with this setup? I know GTA 5 should be possible but I am wondering for JC3.
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With kind regards. You'd need to look at the requirements, but you could try I suppose. I would recommend a power supply more than 220 watts though. Something I saw on here yesterday got me thinking for a poor man's gaming box(I've been there), you could almost pick up one of these. Pop in a power supply and video card. Sure you would not be killing everything but if you watched for say 350 or less have a system that could play some games and not choke totally. Oh sir, I do love your solution but there is a major problem.
I live in Belgium and there aren't many good computer sites to my knowledge. Also, I'm sure you have ebay over there? Celtx art packs free download for windows. That may not be a bad place to look. Sometimes if you look, at least here, people are unloading used cpus, boards and video cards. For example, I've got a radeon 7950 I bought used about last year for 120 dollars US.
To get a comparable card new is close to 200. Used parts can be kind of sketchy, but you might look around, you may come across some things that will get you started from where someone else is upgrading perhaps. I would caution if you go that route though, watch people's feedback very carefully. Usually if someone has a lot of high feedback ratings they won't want to sacrifice that.
I have done exactly this with excellent results with the ACER X1700 MCP73T-AD V1.0 Motherboard. As follows: 1) A cheap Micro ATX case from newegg: about $17 on sale. A Q9650 CPU I found used on ebay for a decent price. I believe this is the fastest upgrade CPU this motherboard is capable of handing.
Keep the original CPU fan. The CPU health status indicator in the BIOS says the temperature is fine with the Q9650.
2) A refurbished 400 watt PS (Diablo):$15 on sale from newegg. 3) Keep the original 4GB memory: DDR2 400mhz ram is difficult to find and too expensive in > 4GB. 4) ZOTAC GTX 750 TI full height short length GPU from newegg: $99. Be careful connecting it there are USB connectors it will cover. Connect the USB motherboard connectors to your new case BEFORE you install the new graphics card. My case does not have cutouts for a DVD(it's a real cheapie)so I use an external USB DVD burner. The reference for the MCP73T-AD V1.0 motherboard is easily found on the internet.