Is This iBuyPower PC good?

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I'm going to get my first gaming PC and I figured I'd get one from iBuyPower.com. I know I'm going to get some crap for not building it myself; but I know me and I know I'd mess it up and fry the motherboard or something. I don't trust myself, so I figured configuring my own on a website that would put it together for me would be the next best thing. I only have roughly $700 to be able to spend on this and I hope this will be okay; but I need some opinions! Obviously the graphics card is bad right now; but I'll get that replaced shortly after I get it.

Processor	1 x AMD A8-5600K APU (4x 3.60GHz/4MB L2 Cache) 
iBUYPOWER PowerDrive	X 
Processor Cooling	1 x Liquid CPU Cooling System [AMD] - Standard 120mm Fan 
Memory	1 x 8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - FREE Upgrade to DDR3-1866 ADATA XPG V2 
Video Card	1 x Default APU Integrated 3D Graphics Video - Only works w/ APU and Motherboard both have video functions 
Motherboard	1 x Gigabyte GA-F2A88X-D3H 
Power Supply	1 x 500 Watt - Standard 
Primary Hard Drive	1 x 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive **Free Upgrade to 2TB SATA 6.0Gb/s Single Drive** 
Data Hard Drive 1 x 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive 
Optical Drive	1 x 24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black - FREE Upgrade to BLU-RAY Reader Combo Drive for Primary Optical Drive 
Flash Media Reader / Writer	1 x 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer - Black 
Sound Card	1 x 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard 
Network Card	1 x Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100)

starpc11 · Accepted Answer

With our help no problem of doing it yourself  and there are some online sites  to help as well the spoecs are good  just the internal graphicss in the amd apu is not good for gaming and you did say would be adding  another graphic card which is good , all is compatible  might want to do a 600 watt psu and  get a gtx 660 ti  which i really think want bottleneck that  pc

Manuel Perez · Answer

It is really good pc. I highly recommend it. Ipyou can go to bestbuy and hear hundreds of oositive comments about it. Also, I havdnt try it myself, I was going to buh it until I decided to build my own with an 800-850 budget. I can spend more since I work and live with my mom so I dont have to pay bills, its just that I dont want to wait one more week xD
Xo, I am buying all the parts at newegg.com and Ive never attempted to do that b4 neither saw anyone doing it b4. I just saw a good video of a guy on youtube building a pc thaT beats xbox 1 and ps4 and decided to buy everything he is using and do as he does and says xD.
Now I got half the parts, and mounted them, when I get the rest ill see what I can do, if I havent figured out where all the cables go to, then ill take it to someone I know that works in a electronic store 2 bloks from here and pay him like 20 for putting the wires wherethey belong. Itshould take someone that knows about all that stuff about 15 mins or less, I guess, since everything is mounted, he just needs to do the wires. But ill try myself when I get the rest, just in case I could save these 20 bucks xD

If you ever decide to build your own then just me sureyou dont have static on you then you are good. You can touch the metals of the top and sides of the case like every couple of minutes to discharge you from static and then you are good to go :D
And dont stand on carpets

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It's not really a great gaming PC. It's got decent APU graphics. I'd say you could play COD: Ghosts of medium settings with decent FPS. Any newer model games like BF4 will be ran on lowest settings.

Nicholas M · Answer

Build your own. Cheaper and on your budget. Also, the A8 sucks. 500w PSU might not be enough.

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