Gaming pc advice

[gopes]

Hi
Coming from the land of Mac I'm not so clued up with these things
Would like to buy one - mainly for my kids to use that's relatively future proof - in other words will need upgrading in about
three years or so.
Would like smaller form factor.
Came across this
http://www.evetech.co.za/Computer-systems/intel-core-i7-lan-party-gaming-pc-582.aspx

Would this be a good buy? Any recommendations for things to add/remove?
Or anyone else who can assist to supply- based in Eastern Cape but will happily courier.
Thanks in advance

 

[Polemus]

Hi
Coming from the land of Mac I'm not so clued up with these things
Would like to buy one - mainly for my kids to use that's relatively future proof - in other words will need upgrading in about
three years or so.
Would like smaller form factor.
Came across this
http://www.evetech.co.za/Computer-systems/intel-core-i7-lan-party-gaming-pc-582.aspx

Would this be a good buy? Any recommendations for things to add/remove?
Or anyone else who can assist to supply- based in Eastern Cape but will happily courier.
Thanks in advance

At this point in time that is a very good gaming PC, and would be good for another 2-3 years.

I can't comment on the pricing though.

 

[Vaughan]

Looks good and from my experience Evetech are quite reasonably priced. You can normally beat them building your own PC but not by much and that does not sound like your cup of tea

My only real thing to check would be to see if you can save money by asking Evetech for the exact same PC with the i5 equivalent rather (same clock speed). i7 has almost zero benefits over the i5 in gaming, only in video rendering, simulation and CAD.
So for gaming if you can save money on the i5 rather get it.

 

[Chevron]

I would only repeat what the people above already have said.

 

[gopes]

Thanks...
I'd love to build my own but that's a bit beyond my skill set atm
I don't think it's too badly priced actually, unless there's something I'm not seeing

 

[Progenix Oj101]

If the price is fine, try dropping to a Core i5 and increasing the SSD to a 480 GB or larger.

 

[Pitbull]

Thanks...
I'd love to build my own but that's a bit beyond my skill set atm
I don't think it's too badly priced actually, unless there's something I'm not seeing

No software included. So budget for an OS
Unless you going to use "free" win7

Anyway, looks good and at a fair price.

 

[GoB]

Same comments... get an i5 with 500GB SSD to avoid micro-managing installs. Plus ~2TB secondary drive depending on what you want to download/store.

I have close to the same spec on a 4-year old i5.. still good for another 2 years.