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I am wanting to buy a gaming PC for max £850. Here is what I have put together online.

Computer Case - Mars ATX Gaming Case - Blue
CPU AMD FX 6200 (6 x 3.8 GHZ) - (Free Majesty 2 Game)
CPU Heatsink AMD Heatsink & Fan
Memory Corsair Vengeance 8GB XMS3 PC3-15000 1866MHz (2x4GB) - Lifetime Warranty (DDR3)
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 - 2 GB - (ZOTAC) - (PCI-E) (FREE ASSASSINS CREED III & £50 In-Game Credit)
Motherboard Gigabyte 970A-DS3 (AMD 970)
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 (PCI)
Networking Intel Gigabit PRO 1000CT Business Network Card (PCI-E)
Power Supply 700W PSU
Hard Drive #1 500 GB Seagate SATA-III HDD 7200 RPM 16MB
Optical Drive #1 Samsung 24x DVD/CD Re-Writer/Reader - Black - (SATA)
Card Reader Internal Card Reader 50-in-1
Operating System #1 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 BIT (Genuine DVD & COA Included)
Monitor #1 24" HD LED Widescreen Monitor - Black - 2ms - DVI/VGA/HDMI
Speakers Standard 2.0 Speakers - Black
Free Gift FREE - 16 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Monitor Cables & Adapters FREE - DVI Port to VGA Monitor Port Adapter
DVD/CD Burning Software FREE - Nero V10 Essentials Suite 2
DVD Playback Software FREE - CyberLink PowerDVD 10
CPU Compound Standard CPU Compound Supplied With Heatsink

Is there anything I can change that could improve it and reduce cost or is there something that needs changing to be able to run games like Minecraft at a high setting?

[ChrisTerror]

for minecraft and battlefield thats total overkill.....

[Tricky Sonic]

for minecraft and battlefield thats total overkill.....

LOL you beat me to it. If your goal is to run small stuff like Minecraft and mediocre graphical titles like Battlefield, you went well beyond what is needed. Remember...Minecraft can run on your smartphone.

[Ghost]

I am wanting to buy a gaming PC for max £850. Here is what I have put together online.

Computer Case - Mars ATX Gaming Case - Blue
CPU AMD FX 6200 (6 x 3.8 GHZ) - (Free Majesty 2 Game)
CPU Heatsink AMD Heatsink & Fan
Memory Corsair Vengeance 8GB XMS3 PC3-15000 1866MHz (2x4GB) - Lifetime Warranty (DDR3)
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 - 2 GB - (ZOTAC) - (PCI-E) (FREE ASSASSINS CREED III & £50 In-Game Credit)
Motherboard Gigabyte 970A-DS3 (AMD 970)
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 (PCI)
Networking Intel Gigabit PRO 1000CT Business Network Card (PCI-E)
Power Supply 700W PSU
Hard Drive #1 500 GB Seagate SATA-III HDD 7200 RPM 16MB
Optical Drive #1 Samsung 24x DVD/CD Re-Writer/Reader - Black - (SATA)
Card Reader Internal Card Reader 50-in-1
Operating System #1 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 BIT (Genuine DVD & COA Included)
Monitor #1 24" HD LED Widescreen Monitor - Black - 2ms - DVI/VGA/HDMI
Speakers Standard 2.0 Speakers - Black
Free Gift FREE - 16 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Monitor Cables & Adapters FREE - DVI Port to VGA Monitor Port Adapter
DVD/CD Burning Software FREE - Nero V10 Essentials Suite 2
DVD Playback Software FREE - CyberLink PowerDVD 10
CPU Compound Standard CPU Compound Supplied With Heatsink

Is there anything I can change that could improve it and reduce cost or is there something that needs changing to be able to run games like Minecraft at a high setting?

 Amazon or PC world but £650 is about right.

LOL you beat me to it. If your goal is to run small stuff like Minecraft and mediocre graphical titles like Battlefield, you went well beyond what is needed. Remember...Minecraft can run on your smartphone.

Begone you Liar! You talk of lies and heathen is not welcome here.You have brought dishonor to House of Sonic. Only joking you know I love you Tricky.

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I thought I needed a computer around £800 from what I was reading. Glad I asked :-)

Thanks guys.

[ChrisTerror]

With that setup he could run the Minecraft GLSL shaders Mod just fine, which is fairly resource heavy. Which even with my mediocre setup i can run but see fps start to go down with 512X texture packs and shader mod combined.

[cannonshane]

Buy the best you can afford, saves upgrading hardware straight away. One of the reasons why I dislike gaming on PC's. Constantly having to upgrade components.

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By the way, would it be worth upgrading the AMD FX 6200 (6 x 3.8 GHZ) to the AMD FX 8350 (8 x 4.0 GHZ)?

[3Dude]

Any multicore pc from the past decade can run minecraft great.

The secret to performance is in mods like optifine.