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Having a pc for gaming built-what do i need?

laup2

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Posted December 1, 2012 at 11:45AM

Hi

I am planning on having somebody build me a computer for my son. He wants it for gaming / making walk through tutorial videos for youtube.

What specs should I be looking at in regards to graphics card, ram, cpu etc?

Thanks in advance.

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laup2

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Posted December 1, 2012 at 11:48AM

Budget of around £300-400-. Do not need a monitor.

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Chronos the 2nd

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Posted December 2, 2012 at 9:09AM

Am I right in assuming that you need: Motherboard. RAM. CPU. Graphics card. Hard-drive.Power supply. Case. operating system? All for £300 -£400 and you are looking to have built a gaming PC? Unless all your son wants to play is very old games I am afraid your budget is far to low for a decent gaming PC I am sorry to say.

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nickf

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Posted December 2, 2012 at 10:22AM

I`m afraid Chronos is right , as an example http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ConfigureSystem.asp?SystemID=1346 is a reasonable gaming PC , but you would still need a monitor , speakers , keyboard , mouse etc .

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Posted December 9, 2012 at 12:23PM

Thanks for that, change of approach.

Can you recommend a capture card to record xbox gaming onto a pc. A good starter one will do for now. UK based Thanks

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Chazzyb17

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Posted January 8, 2013 at 3:10PM

well for Xbox 360 capture you can use a Dazzle DVC recorder (black) or HD PVR.

for original Xbox any dazzle will do.

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