Good PC for games?

[Oran]

Hey guys my friend has offered me this PC for a price I am willing to pay should it be able to run games such as DayZ,Battlefield and Minecraft.
The specs are below:

AMD A10-6800K Quad Core APU (4.4GHz) & Radeon™ HD 8670D Graphics
ASUS® A88XM-PLUS: (M-ATX, DDR3, USB 3.0, 6Gb/s)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 750 Ti - DVI, mHDMI, VGA - 3D Vision Ready
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY
STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER

Please tell me if this would be good enough for the reasons I stated above. Thanks

 

[tiny voices]

No not really. It has a lower quality PSU, an APU (CPU designed for no graphics card) used with a GPU.

Only single channel RAM on a platform that REALLY benefits from dual channel.

It will play games decently at medium settings at 1080p, but it is not well designed at all.

 

[Kingbob]

It should be able to run all of those games on pretty high settings. It won't be maxed out but if you need a gaming PC it will be decent.

May I ask how much are you paying for it?
I'd guess it's around $450-$550.

 

[Guest]

depends on the price. its not a BAD pc at all....its just....kind of ass backwards

 

[Tom Tancredi]

APUs were originally built as Low Power, Low Cost, LOW DEMAND (aka for grandma to get to Facebook, not little Jane to crank out on BF4 64Man maps) for the masses on portable (laptop / tablet) devices. As AMD has ABANDONED the Gamer's line (FX CPUs) and Intel has officially STOPPED making ANY desktop chipsets anymore, people been converting APUs to 'game with'. PROBLEM IS, they are still APUs and they choke and don't have the processing capability the demanding 2013, 2014, and in a few weeks 2015 (!!!) titles demand. BF4 testing showed how bad the APUs were, WatchDogs totally made them useless (here is a 'best' A10 for example and look at the best numbers you get http://www.techspot.com/review/856-amd-a10-7800-kaveri/page7.html). This is why your friend is offering his PC to you.

Your best solution would be to grab a cheap i5 new PC system from www.slickdeals.net for around $349 or so (Windows alone is $179) and swap a good GPU and PSU into it and you get a very nice rig for the next few years that performs quite well in the games. The 750Ti shouldn't need a new PSU in a new rig (only needs a 300W which is normally included in OEM computers) while a 'nice' card, isn't going to provide high end gaming, even if you paired it up with a i5 based PC :

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7764/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-ti-and-gtx-750-review-maxwell/14
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-750-ti-review,3750-9.html

 

[Oran]

It should be able to run all of those games on pretty high settings. It won't be maxed out but if you need a gaming PC it will be decent.

May I ask how much are you paying for it?
I'd guess it's around $450-$550.

yeah around that much