Is my Specs Good for Gaming?

Owl___McGroove

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Iam not a techy Guy. so my parents bought me a new pc, Idont know if the specs are good for high end games like COD advanced warfare,watchdogs etc....



SPECS:


OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name PERSONAL-PC
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model To be filled by O.E.M.
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G, 3100 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. FB, 4/9/2015
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name personal-PC\personal
Time Zone China Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 14.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 11.7 GB
Total Virtual Memory 37.4 GB
Available Virtual Memory 33.8 GB
Page File Space 22.4 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
 
Solution
You have an APU which is a AMD CPU and a AMD R7 GPU combined into one unit. It is much better then most CPU's integrated video except for Skylake which intel has made some very good improvements. However a discrete or stand alone VGA card of medium or better performs much much better. You can add a GPU to your system, but you have to balance the performance you get, so your not spending extra money and not getting the most of the VGA card because it is bottle necked by the CPU. I would go no higher then the GTX 750 Ti or GTX 950 for nvidia, or AMD R7 270.
This is good for low-end to lower mid-ranged gaming. APUs are not really for gaming rigs. A mid-ranged discrete VGA card will always beat a APU. Putting a highend VGA card on this build is pointless since this CPU will bottle neck it.

Thank your folks for buying you a computer, use it for school, watching videos, playing lower to mid-range games, surfing the internet, and start saving to build your own gaming rig.
 


What games would you consider as low end or mid range?
 
Something like this that you stick into the PC:

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It's basically a co-processing unit that serves the dedicated purpose of rendering graphics.
 


I thought my Graphics card is dedicated. Mine says its a Dual Graphics Card does that make any difference?
 


My Device Manager under the Display adapters shows:

AMD Radeon R7 Graphics + R7 200 Dual Graphics
AMD Radeon (TM) R7 Graphics


GPU-Z of Both

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You have an APU which is a AMD CPU and a AMD R7 GPU combined into one unit. It is much better then most CPU's integrated video except for Skylake which intel has made some very good improvements. However a discrete or stand alone VGA card of medium or better performs much much better. You can add a GPU to your system, but you have to balance the performance you get, so your not spending extra money and not getting the most of the VGA card because it is bottle necked by the CPU. I would go no higher then the GTX 750 Ti or GTX 950 for nvidia, or AMD R7 270.
 
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