If you are really passionate about video gaming, you already know the complexity of the video games of our days. They had evolved very much, and from one year to the other there are more and more complex games on the market. They have a really intensive game play, that requires many days to complete, with complex characters and amazing graphics. And because of all of these things, the video games of today also have very high computer requirements. So in order to play them you will need a good computer, but in order to enjoy them at their best quality you will definitely need a really powerful gaming computer.


A computer like this may be very expensive, and it can cost 1,000 , 2000 , 3000 or even 4000 dollars. It is clear that not anyone can afford to spend so much for a computer, so that’s why the computer producing companies tried to offer cheaper computers, that can also support video gaming. Of course they are not as powerful as those that cost thousands of dollars, but they can easily support the complex video games of our days. There are many places from where you can buy a computer, and the store Best Buy is one of them. We didn’t found any 700 dollars gaming PC on the site of Best Buy, but we did found a powerful computer that comes at quite an acceptable price.

This is the HP – Pavilion Elite Desktop / AMD Phenom ™ II Processor / 8 GB Memory / 1 TB Hard Drive, Model: HPE – 210 y, and it has a price of 899 dollars at Best Buy. The processor of this PC is the AMD Phenom ™ II quad – core processor 945 with True multicore processing for extreme multitasking performance. Among the other advanced technologies that it has there is the Cool’n'Quiet ™ 3.0, CoolCore ™ and Dual Dynamic Power Management ™ for efficient energy usage. It also has the AMD Memory Optimizer Technology for multithread software performance and AMD Virtualization with Rapid Virtualization Indexing, which will help your programs to run securely and efficiently. This good gaming PC has a good RAM memory too, one of 8 GB PC 3 8500 DDR 3 SDRAM, which can be expanded up to 16 GB.

It has the best optical drive on the market right now, the Blu-ray Disc enabled DVD ± RW / CD – RW drive which features read support for next generation Blu-ray Disc (BD-ROM). It also has  double  layer support using compatible media and it supports LightScribe direct disc labels using compatible media. The PC also has 2 MB L2 plus 6 MB shared L3 cache memory. In order to store many large video games, you definitely need large hard disc, so this PC offers you just what you need   – a Serial ATA hard drive with a capacity of 1000 GB (1 TB). A good video experience for games and movies cannot be complete without a powerful graphics card, so this computer comes with the ATI Radeon HD 5450 Series graphics for lush images with stunning detail.

No matter what kind of display screen you are using, you can always connect the PC to a High Definition TV, thanks to its HDMI port. So this way you can have a great video experience for video games and High Definition movies. And these movies and games won’t be as good as with a powerful sound system. So this PC has High Definition audio with 7.1 surround sound capability. It also has a 15 in 1 media reader which supports CompactFlash Type I/II, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo, Secure Digital and miniSD. So you can easily transfer all sorts of files, and you can do this also with the 7 high speed USB ports that it has , or with the IEEE 1394 Fire Wire interface.

It’s not necessary to always play video games, so you can also browse the internet with this PC. It has just the connectivity you find on a laptop – both built in high speed wireless LAN (802.11 b / g / n) and built in 10 / 100 / 1000 Base-T Ethernet networking interface. In case you buy it from  Best Buy, it will come with an installed version of the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system, along with some other installed programs such as the HP Media Smart Suite, Microsoft Works 9.0 and a 60 days trial version of the Microsoft Office.

So here was one of the cheapest gaming computers on the market, one that offers really good features at an acceptable price (acceptable compared to other gaming PC-s that cost thousands of dollars). In case you too own the HP – Pavilion Elite Desktop / AMD Phenom ™ II Processor / 8 GB Memory / 1 TB Hard Drive, Model: HPE – 210 y, we invite you to tell us all your opinions about it, and about the video games you play on it. Also if you know a 700 dollars gaming PC, we would love to hear about it. Have a nice day!