Suggestion for a PC

[abheeshkumar]

I want to buy a pc and found a guy with a good offer. I am quite new in gaming so I have no idea about gaming PC's. I Want to use this pc for gaming and as I am just entering college, for assignments. I want to play latest games in medium to high settings.

Its specs are:
Core i5 6600 box
Gigabyte B150M D3H box
8GB ddr4 ram
500w 80plus PSU
1TB hard
Casecom case
R9 290 tri x edition

It's price is nearly 65000 pkr but I can negotiate it to 60000. Need help. Should I buy it or wait for a better deal.
P.S. 60000 is nearly 500$.
Yep. My country is suffering in economy field.

 

[ElectrO_90]

Seems OK for that price
Decent Graphics card (albeing a little old) but still as good as a 1060ti
we don't know make of PSU, and the only thing I think it is missing is an SSD - which can be added later.

 

[Karadjgne]

No. That R9 290 Tri-X should really be on a decent 650w psu, not an unknown 500w 80+. That's severely shortchanged as those cards alone can spike over 300w by themselves, add another 100w for a decent cpu and 100w for the rest. First time that system is pushed somewhat hard it'll run into black/bluescreen issues. The owner of that pc has swapped out some parts he wanted to keep and tossed in some stuff just to make the pc whole.

 

[abheeshkumar]

Karadjgne, actually he is giving the card separately. I just assumed that this card will work with it. Tha k you for the psu information.

 

[Karadjgne]

It's OK. That's really a good card, but the high end R9 cards are monsters when it comes to power needs, a gtx970 would be comparable in performance but with a locked cpu would be ok on a 500w psu. What worries me the most is the fact it's an 80+, not even an 80+ Bronze or gold, so is more than likely bottom shelf quality, older group regulated design than will be lucky to have 460w on the 12v rail(s) and there's no telling if it's even good enough for that. Many of those uber cheap 500w psus will not actually be able to run even at ½ loads before giving out, quite often taking out the mobo/gpu as well.
https://youtu.be/f6snWfd1v7M

 

[ElectrO_90]

I ran almost the same system on a decent 550W, r9 390x
Max draw was only ever 450W - when absolutley caning the card, otherwise most games were about 375-400W

 

[Karadjgne]

Exactly. Decent 550w. Huge difference from that to a 500w 80+, like the Evga W1 500b or worse. Decent gaming psus are built to withstand heavy, instantaneous gpu demands. Office psus are not.