What can I play on this rig?

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#1 Jaun7707
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I am looking at getting a rather cheap gaming PC for under $500.00 and I found this guy on youtube who said I should be able to play anything on medium to high settings. Is that true? What would you change? Thanks

Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz 2 x 256KB L2 Cache 3MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor

BIOSTAR TH67+ LGA 1155 Intel H67 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

XFX HD-577A-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

PNY XLR8 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model MD4096KD3-1600-X8

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Thermaltake TR2 W0379RU 500W ATX 12V v2.2 Power Supply

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#2 WWIAB
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Not sure about the processor but the 5770 is quite a capable card, I play many things at 1080p with 30fps + (On high/very high with some AA) and with AMD Catalyst, it can overclock quite well, although my Sapphire does go unstable at higher clocks. I'd look at a 6850/6870 though for future proofing
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#3 chertoo
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thats about as good as you can do for 500$, and perhaps dont forget to look into overclocking the cpu a little bit, those gen2 cpu's are very easy to overclock, atleast i5 and i7 are, havent looked into i3

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#4 jm92590
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thats about as good as you can do for 500$, and perhaps dont forget to look into overclocking the cpu a little bit, those gen2 cpu's are very easy to overclock, atleast i5 and i7 are, havent looked into i3

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Can't overclock the CPU, the motherboard is an H67 series, which has onboard video only. And the 2100 series isn't a K model, so I'm guessing the motherboard really doesn't matter in this case. TC, the comp isn't bad at all, any resolution 1080p and below should run plenty of games on med-high with 40-60 FPS.
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#5 chertoo
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thats about as good as you can do for 500$, and perhaps dont forget to look into overclocking the cpu a little bit, those gen2 cpu's are very easy to overclock, atleast i5 and i7 are, havent looked into i3

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Can't overclock the CPU, the motherboard is an H67 series, which has onboard video only. And the 2100 series isn't a K model, so I'm guessing the motherboard really doesn't matter in this case. TC, the comp isn't bad at all, any resolution 1080p and below should run plenty of games on med-high with 40-60 FPS.

true, didnt notice the h67 there, too bad :(

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#6 Iantheone
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Should be able to run anything just fine. Even newer games that havent been released yet.