Is my new gaming rig powerful?

[cgeek]

System Configuration -

Processor - i5 3470
Motherboard - Intel DB75EN
Ram - 4 GB
Hard Disk - 1TB
Graphic Card - Asus AMD 7750 1GB GDDR5
Operating System - Window 8 Pro 64 bit
Windows Experience Index - 5.9/9.9
Screen Resolution- 1440x900

i am not a hardcore gamer and i only play ac series but i want all the recent games like - Battlefield 3, NFS Most Wanted 2013, Skyrim, Batman Arkham City , Assassin's Creed 3, GTA 4 and upcoming future games like - Assassin's Creed 4,5, Batman Arkham Origin, Call Of Duty Ghost, Battlefield 4, GTA 5 should run smoothly with all the setting high except screen resolution. Is it possible? I have recently built this rig @ 35k. Is it a great deal or some upgrade is necessary?

 

[ksham]

It's kind of weak. First thing that I'll do is get more RAM. Then up the GPU a bit.

 

[wa1]

For 1440x900, I think your rig is just powerful enough to play those games with decent setting (except GTA 4 which is poorly coded)

 

[RobCrezz]

Its ok. But your GPU is your weakest point, and also 8Gb of Ram would be an improvement.

 

[cgeek]

It's kind of weak. First thing that I'll do is get more RAM. Then up the GPU a bit.

Firstly, my budget was till 35k and secondly i am not a hardcore gamer but i don't know why i want to see all games running smoothly on my pc. First i thought to purchase ps3 but then i changed my mind later because i want to do other cool and creative stuff like running android apps through bluestalk, adobe photoshop etc.
Is there any problem in my motherboard? i want to know does it support sli crossfire?

 

[ksham]

The motherboard needs to change if you want to support SLI/CrossFire. The one you had only has one PCIe slot. It's fine for your one card now though.

 

[cgeek]

The motherboard needs to change if you want to support SLI/CrossFire. The one you had only has one PCIe slot. It's fine for your one card now though.

is it the best motherboard under 5500rs. ? does this (not supporting of sli/crossfire) hinders my gaming? to a large extend or a little bit only?

 

[ksham]

I don't know the answer to the first question. I don't live in India. I don't know what retailers are available and so I can't even begin to compare prices and products.

You don't need SLI/CrossFire for gaming. I actually don't recommend it. I would rather upgrade to a more powerful single card than use SLI/CrossFire. The only time that would be useful IMO is if you want more monitors.

 

[cgeek]

I don't know the answer to the first question. I don't live in India. I don't know what retailers are available and so I can't even begin to compare prices and products.

You don't need SLI/CrossFire for gaming. I actually don't recommend it. I would rather upgrade to a more powerful single card than use SLI/CrossFire. The only time that would be useful IMO is if you want more monitors.

Thanks for your answer

I wanted to ask that my processor i5 3470 does not have OC option...is it okay? because i think overclocking doesn't increases much of your speed or something else. It just makes some heating issue and for that i had to get decent fan for my cpu..which is a waste. I thought of getting i5 3570K but then it was a bit coslier. I have oc option in my graphic card but then who overclocks it.
And secondly, i didn't know about haswell stuff when i was building but when i saw the comparing of my processor with the of i5 haswell i found this -
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4430-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3470

had i made a mistake by not waiting for it?

 

[ksham]

I can't speak about Haswell because it isn't out yet so I don't really know how good it is.

But, the i5-3470 is not unlocked so you cannot overclock it. If you don't plan to overclock or don't know how to overclock, then don't overclock. Overclocking does increase performance a decent amount. But if you don't know how to overclock properly, you can damage your chip, motherboard, and other components in your computer.

 

[cgeek]

For 1440x900, I think your rig is just powerful enough to play those games with decent setting (except GTA 4 which is poorly coded)

1. is it the best motherboard under 5500rs.? or asrock is better than intel?

2. I have windows 8 pro 64bit. Though i have a nice pc, windows 8 shows many issues like - when it opens the start menu goes black and then i have to restart and it starts normally, it lags for 5min while loading the icons and other stuff when i click desktop button on start menu and after that it starts working normally...
I have updated win8 with new updates...is there any problem in the new update or windows 8 pro?? shuld i switch to windows 7 ultimate?

 

[cgeek]

I can't speak about Haswell because it isn't out yet so I don't really know how good it is.

But, the i5-3470 is not unlocked so you cannot overclock it. If you don't plan to overclock or don't know how to overclock, then don't overclock. Overclocking does increase performance a decent amount. But if you don't know how to overclock properly, you can damage your chip, motherboard, and other components in your computer.

I have windows 8 pro 64bit. Though i have a nice pc, windows 8 shows many issues like - when it opens the start menu goes black and then i have to restart and it starts normally, it lags for 5min while loading the icons and other stuff when i click desktop button on start menu and after that it starts working normally...
I have updated win8 with new updates...is there any problem in the new update or windows 8 pro?? shuld i switch to windows 7 ultimate?

 

[ksham]

I would prefer Windows 7 and ASRock > Intel.

 

[cgeek]

I would prefer Windows 7 and ASRock > Intel.

I have tried emulating ps2 games through pscx2 and the game ran smoothly and clearly on 3x. I searched got some type of ps3 emulator and i wanted to try hands on that one. But before that i have to download some ps3 game..which i don't want because i am not sure that it will run or not..Can u tell me if it will run smoothly on 2x only on this pc?

 

[ksham]

I've never used pscx so I have no idea.

 

[cgeek]

I've never used pscx so I have no idea.

hey, if i had purchased best model of i3 which would had costed me around 7k or 8k and then i could have purchased gtx 560 or 560 ti...then too my budget would be under 30k...and better performance i think!
what do you think would there have been any decrease in performance if i had i3 and a better graphic card?