So i was just wondering if this was good for all the usual game developing software. It costs 498 but I could get it for 398 because I have a relative who works at walmart and can get a discount.
I didnt want to get anything too pricey because this my first pc that is actually mine and plus I have to pay for it possibly
Wow… That is a really cheap price. And the specs are pretty good to.
You should go for it.
Firstly IBUYPOWER is like the worst brand of PC there is, they are generally the cheapest parts and you will feel it when the PSU blows up and the case falls apart.
And I think the GT 630 is trash.
Slickdeals.net and watch for lenovo or dell outlet deals. You will get a far more powerful machine for less money if you watch a week or so… For buying one or two machines it is definitely the way to go.
Yes…Yes completely agree. It might look good getting it for cheap, but you wont be happy when you find all the shortcuts they take.
Add in that those specs are very low for the $500 range, and it’s a losing proposition. As I said… go to slickdeals or fatwallet, set up deal alerts for your criteria, and buy once someone’s offering a good machine for less ;).
Basically, read up on PC building and make it yourself. It’s like lego with a higher chance of death (hello, mr 230 volts).
Building is certainly cheaper if you know how ;), but it’s a little difficult to say the least to injure yourself building one 
. Unless you pry open the power supply and touch the capacitators in there… (NOTE: BAD idea, you don’t want to do that) in which case you can shock yourself very badly (injury/death in rare cases). Otherwise? It’s like legos that result in an awesomer result once built ;). (I’ve been building ones since I was 10 if I recall correctly, which was a very, very long time ago).
Basically…
Applies for the inside too.
how am I supposed to pick a PC when everywhere there are mixed reviews? And how is the nvidia 630 trash? It runs far cry 3 at high settings at 20-30 fps and on ultra it can run 15-25, I’m not a gamer but that’s good enough for me, this is my first PC, I don’t need a high powered robot, just a PC good enough for unity and etc.
Not to mention its been hard to actually find a computer to use so I’m in need of one bad
I’d be worried of frame drops etc.
You should be able to find a cheaper one easily, I would look for you but I dont have time now.
How about this PC , I might have to use money I earn from working if I get a job, but it’ll be worth it( I’m 16 btw so I’m getting a summer job)
Have you thought about building one? it is rather easy and lots of fun 
How about the builds in this thread: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1675583/gaming-build-600.html
What do u mean by building? Do you mean on the website or ordering parts? Because I had 2 things that would make it 1300 but I didn’t order it
Order the parts and assemble it yourself.
That’s certainly the best bang for the buck. If he wants to go for a pre-built, I’d recommend this small-form-factor Lenovo system for $376.60:
Add in this low-profile GTX 650 (multiple times faster than the GT 630 you were looking at): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-500-290&Tpk=N82E16814500290 for $110 (grab a low profile bracket and you’re good to go!) and you’ll end up with a very nice development machine that’s compact and comes in at under $500 taxed/shipped sporting these specs:
You can put together deals like this all day long… took me a couple of minutes, literally, to grab that kind of idea there (many, many others are around constantly).
I now agree with building and found this :
and here is a tutorial on how to build it:
the only thing besides the PC I have to buy now is windows 8 (already a fan boy of it so you cant change my opinion of it )
Whatever you do, just make sure you end up with a good quality power supply unit. PSU’s can be a huge source of issues in PC’s that people typically don’t realize, and cheap PSU’s can be notoriously bad at creating these issues because they tend to output unstable voltages that fluctuate, or ‘vibrate’ or spike. This can lead to memory chips dying, capacitors dying sooner, CPU’s cycles becoming corrupt and there being random crashes, or hard drive writes executing incorrectly and corrupting your disc. Be very careful with this. If you have ever heard a horror story of a PC just being unreliable, crashes, corrupting, memory dying whatever. High chance it’s because of a cheap PSU.
Also if building OEM, don’t be afraid to buy a generation old. A 3rd or even 2nd gen Intel core chip with a nvidia 6 or 5 series card will suit you entirely well, and potentially be half the cost. You can also find some components like that 2nd hand if they are older. You don’t want to buy second hand hard drives, or second hand PSU’s, as those things tend to die at some point, and so it’s best to start off new. But Intel CPU’s and Nvidia Video cards, and quality ram sticks don’t really die at any point, unless a person was overclocking them, so try to find some old ones on ebay. You can probably build a PC way faster than that walmart one for alot cheaper.
the full price might be 800.61 since i decided to get an i5-3470 instead of i3-3220 Processor. Also are video cards and graphics cards the same thing? because im thinking of upgrading the one reccommended"
i3-3220 Processor:
i5-3470 :
Reccommended:
1Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 Graphics Card: http://goo.gl/sWlSo
What i want to get:
GPU Upgrade - MSI Radeon 7850 2GB: http://goo.gl/5JYo6
Let me know if i should upgrade or just leave it the way it was reccommended
Yeah, I think that GPU would be fine, but I don’t really think that 2gb is worth the price though.
Getting a video card with 1gb vs 2gb of vram will not necessarilly improve performance 2x. The VRAM amount is not a measure of the cards performance. In most instances, you will not notice any performance gains by have 2 gb of RAM. Only texture heavy games will have performance gains, which is not ever a Unity indie game. So I wouldn’t recommend you get the ‘upgraded’ GPU. If you want a better GPU get one with more processing units, that is a better measure of it’s performance.
However I would suggest not getting a radeon, but rather a geforce. The gtx 650 ti would be in your price range. If you don’t care about directx 11 and don’t intend to use it, you can find a gtx 550 ti for $100. For most Unity developer, budget cards even 3 year olds are still more than sufficient because most Unity games are not really that performance critical. Like a gtx 550 ti is still many many many folds faster than an iPhone or Android device. If you plan on deploying to mobile and a gtx 550 ti gets anywhere close to hitting a performance ceiling, you’ve seriously overshot the performance budget for mobile devices.
Definantely get the quad core cpu. For $70 you can double your CPU performance…