Is this a decent gaming PC?

[dgk]

I haven't been doing much PC work the last few years (or decade maybe) and am not up on current hardware. But my relatives want to know if this is a decent gaming PC for their 14 year old son so I figured I'd ask here. That video card looks good though.


Windows 10 Pro
· 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i5+ 8400 (Core™ i5 and Intel® Optane™ memory)
· HyperX® 16 GB DDR4-2666 SDRAM (2 x 8 GB)
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· 16 GB NVMe™ Intel® Optane™ Memory for storage acceleration
· 2 TB 7200 rpm SATA
· No Secondary storage
· No Third storage
· Shadow black front bezel, dark chrome logo
· NVIDIA ® GeForce ® RTX 2080 (8GB GDDR6 dedicated)
· 500 W Bronze efficiency power supply
· 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2x2) Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® 4.2 M.2 combo
· HP black wired keyboard with volume control and wired optical mouse kit
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· OMEN by HP Obelisk Desktop PC - 875-0030qd
· Intel H370 Coffee Lake

 

[trents]

It is a pretty decent setup. The limiting point of that configuration will be the i5 8400 CPU. It will likely bottleneck the GPU in many high end games. It would also be nice if it had an SSD for the system drive. How much?

 

[Witchdoctor]

I agree, maybe down grade to a 2070 and insert those dollars into a better CPU and SSD

 

[Keithn]

It's a powerful setup for PC gaming. It is able to handle all modern AAA title on 2k or even 4k resolution at good FPS

 

[EarthDog]

Its a great setup for any resoution. The i5 8400 6c/6t CPU is plenty to drive that GPU at 1080p and esepcially 2560x1440 where CPU doesn't matter much.

An SSD for an OS would be good...

... and like someone else asked... for how much?

 

[dgk]

Thanks for the help. They upgraded to I7. Just under $2K. My first PC in 1982 (switchable from 6 to 10 MHz) was over $3k so I guess this is a bargain.

 

[EarthDog]

Hopefully they added an ssd for the OS too... that is what I would have done. The cpu wasn't the issue.