Is this build ok for gaming. (For my daughter)

[T_Yamamoto]

Before you judge me negatively let me say that my daughter already has more computer knowledge then both her grandparents, Her mother, and all her classmates. Since every job out there is going to require a computer in 10 years all I have done is prepare her better then if I did nothing.

ps. She also has a tablet to

I'm just jealous. And you are absolutely correct, in 10 years everything (well most jobs) will require computer knowledge.

I would suspect the GPU being too weak to drive a huge monitor. Try running your 680 in her PC and see if it helps

 

[alanwest09872]

See Ive been using that monitor since i got the gtx 280 quite a few years ago. And they were able to run it no problem at all. So the 470 shouldnt have any issues

 

[Yuriman]

Even so, the 470 is the weak point in that system. You'll see more of an improvement upgrading from a 470 to a 660 or something, than from a platform upgrade. You will still see an improvement from moving to Haswell though.

 

[alanwest09872]

Ya but in a few months I will be giving my daughter my 680 and getting myself the 780 or the titan

 

[SiliconWars]

The Q6600 is the weaker part, not the 470.

In this case the resolution is probably making the 470 a bottleneck however. At 1600p you really need something with 2GB VRAM minimum.

 

[sm625]

I can see getting rid of the Q6600 in favor of something a bit lower power, like a A10-6700 and no discrete video card. But to give an i5 and a 100+ watt video card to an 8 yo? Overkill.

 

[alanwest09872]

I upgrade alot. I dont see the sense in getting rid of the old stuff so I put it into her pc. This one time I am actually paying to upgrade hers without upgrading mine. Its her birthday she is a good kid

 

[VirtualLarry]

I can see getting rid of the Q6600 in favor of something a bit lower power, like a A10-6700 and no discrete video card. But to give an i5 and a 100+ watt video card to an 8 yo? Overkill.

Overkill? Probably. But I wish that I was more spoiled as far as hardware went by my parents when I was in HS. I still had a 386DX-40, in HS and into college. I think I got a 486DX2-66 after college. It was fun to program VGA games in assembly language though.

Does she just game on it? Because if so, it's just a glorified console rig to her.

Kudos if she does anything productive with the system too, like programming, or at least word processing for schoolwork.

 

[blckgrffn]

I vote that you are doing it right and just buy the stuff you must have in your cart. I'd get at least 8GB of ram for it to last the time period you have specified.

8GB is more so that you won't feel the itch down the road when the ram might be more expensive rather than needing today

I have no bones about getting a slightly premium mainboard for a PC that will be around for awhile - even after it is aged by your daughters standards, it will likely find its way into another home you know - and cheap crap is always cheap crap. It seems like I am haunted by the boards I skimped on.

EDIT: I see you have already addressed this. My only change would be to get the cheapest 8GB possible and dump the difference into the CPU.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I still recommend 16GB of RAM for any new system. Prices are still reasonable for that amount of RAM ($100-110 on sale).

Might as well max it out while you can, before it becomes scarce and expensive in a couple of years, as the industry transitions to DDR4.