Advise a noob on buying a gaming pc.

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Ratamahatta

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Hi i'm a noob to pc gaming have owned console's my whole life but as my laptop is about to die i'm looking to buy a gaming pc as a replacement.

I would like to play football manager 13 n beyond,the newer tropico gamer's,the total war series shogun and the new sim city coming out game's like that. i wont however be looking to play realy graphical games like bf3,max payne and crysis.

I know nothing about building a pc and due to physical reason's couldn't do it anyway, i need a pre build i know i'd get more for my money buying part's and building but it's just not possible for me to do.

my budget is a max of £700 including monitor. and i'v been looking on http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ just need some advice on what would be best to buy there or on other sites.
 
overclockers.co.uk has better prebuilt systems.

That aside, why do you say (if we may ask, and no offense intended if you don't want to talk about it) that you can not build a computer? If you can move your arms and have decent motor control of your hands, it is easy to build one, though you may need an extra set of hands to hold a part in place (even fully healthy people do. I use my sister as a safety pin when I am working on my computer.).
You could also talk to your local computer shop and see how much they charge to assemble a computer if you buy the parts. If it is not much above 25-30 pounds, then you can still get a better deal buying your own parts, even if you are not the one to put it together.
 
It's just that i have cerebral palsey and have full use of only one hand and i'm abit shakey to i wouldn't wanna risk chipping one of the components or breaking somthing and i know nothing about parts and wouldn't want to buy everything then break it with my own hand's.
 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-247-OE

I can't guarantee what power supply it will have, but if you spec it with an HIS 7850 IceQ X, a Corsair Carbide 300R case and Windows 7 Home x64, it comes to £864 - over budget I know.

If you spec it with a 7770 graphics card it will be £40 cheaper and will still have decent performance. There are also cheaper cases available (just look through the list you can have, the 300R is a great little case though which is why I recommended it).

Overclockers' pre-built systems are expensive to say the least. For £700-800 you could build your own system with an i5 and a decent graphics card (like the 7850). I know it's not ideal for you though. Maybe you could do as suggested below and see if you can get somebody to do it for you?

I know Novatech have decent pre-built systems, but the power supplies they use aren't the greatest (you may be able to choose what you get with them though, I'll check).
 
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okay, that is completely understandable.

I would still look ino buying the parts yourself and having a local shop assemble it. They generally don't charge much, and you still end up with a much better system than if you bought prebuilt.
 
depends how long you want your system to last for. FM13 will play on a dual core computer admittly not very well. Personally with that budget id look at a custom build pc. As said earlier they are quite easy to complete most of it being push in stuff, or even ask a local computer student to help, and it also allows you to diagnosis faults easier if they ever arise in the future.
Id look at a i5 or i7, minimum 8gb ram possibly 16gb depending on motherboard and cost, and high spec graphic card with 2gb ram,
 
The second one (Gallant) is by far the best. The 7870 crushes the 7770 in performance. However the 7770 is still a good card. Just 7870 is better.
 
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