Looking for something that is well able to play the latest games such as the latest COD - any ideas?
Go to newsagent's and get 'PC PRO' or 'what pc'.....multiple user guides, Grphx card comparisons and latest memory speeds.
8 or 16gb of the fastest ram, a solid state boot drive and a couple of TB Sata HDs, with the second most expensive grphx card you can afford.
(never buy at the bleeding edge, it will cost you £300 more and will be second best in two months anyway)
EDIT....Tom's hard ware was always a pretty useful guide website and that might be worth a bit of a read through.
All the top graphics cards probably do - but make sure it has two DVI outputs (or three)
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Looking for something that is well able to play the latest games such as the latest COD - any ideas?
Are the games you want to play available for the games machines. If so it might be worth considering going down that route. I spent too many years upgrading or replacing pc's to try to keep up with games developers before I realised it was a thankless task. If the games you want are available for an Xbox or similar it may be cheaper to not use a PC for games.
Alienware used to be one of the best but I believe are now affiliated or owned by Dell. Not sure if that's good or bad TBH.
As a starting point how much do you want to spend?
PC graphics, memory and (for everything apart from dumb-downed ported games) control systems are far superior to a console though
With a console, you have to wait until a new-gen console comes out....with a PC, you can simply upgrade the GPU
I concur about getting the PC PRO magazine, I`m not someone who buys such magazines especially at £6 a go. But a mate urged me to take a look. The OP could take a look at their reviews section http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviewsGo to newsagent's and get 'PC PRO' or 'what pc'.....multiple user guides, Grphx card comparisons and latest memory speeds.
8 or 16gb of the fastest ram, a solid state boot drive and a couple of TB Sata HDs, with the second most expensive grphx card you can afford.
(never buy at the bleeding edge, it will cost you £300 more and will be second best in two months anyway)
£600 ish is roughly what I was thinking - is that a reasonable figure?