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I'm a PC gamer and have been for a great many years. My son in law is a hardened Sony Playstation gamer. Like a dripping tap over many years I have finally persuaded him to have a look at PC gaming.

Not sure why but cost of games and the fact he will be getting this Pc fro free may have had something to do with it 


The rules are as follows, it's got to hook up to his plasma TV. He has got to be able to play from his couch. 


Most of the hardware is easy because I have recently upgraded so he is getting some of my old stuff.

CPU: AMD 8150, Cooler: Noctua NH-D14, MoBo: ASRock FX990 Extreme 3, RAM: G.Skill 8Gb @ 1600MHz, Storage: Intel SATAII 80GB SSD + 500GB Mechanical, G/Card: Powercolor 6870, Case: CM Scout, PSU: Corsair HX750W, 


Both the CPU and G/Card are a little weak but should be fine for a first gaming rig. The tricky bit is outputting to the Plasma TV and then controllers! I may have to pick up an optical drive, I have not used them for some time in my own builds.


I have looked at the back of the TV and it has an old school VGA D-sub connector plus hi fi type sound. There is HDMI but will all of the other stuff connecting with HDMI I think he is running out of ports. More to the point I have the VGA cable + the DVI to VGA adapter.


I was thinking of picking up some simple wireless bits, Keyboard and mouse and an XBox controler... Thing is do these things have any range limitations? Am I missing anything? Is there something a console gamer would want or expect from a gaming PC that I have over looked???

I think once I have explained Steam to him he will never look back, especialy when he sees the price of games :)

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are those his parts or your parts, also I'd invest in a HDMI splitter, it can't be more than 20 bucks, unless you get a special dongle for PC you'll have to use a wired Xbox controller, I'd looking into using a PS3 controller with blutooth

and does anyone need a new computer or parts?

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The parts listed are the spare bit's I have left over after my upgrade and have sitting here not being used. They are the bit's and bobs I'm going to put together for his gaming PC. This is the best I can put together. It's not going to be a power house but should be good enough for him to decide if PC gameing is worth the effort.

 

The tricky bit is hooking it up to the Plasma TV and finding controlers good enough for the job. Keyboard, mouse and controler. I thought that an XBox controller would be easer, I have read about issue getting the PS3 controler to work.... I'm conserned about the range of a regular wireless keyboard and mouse. It's about 10 feet from the PC to the couch.

 

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it will make it its like 15-20 feet I think, and that rig will make games look WAAAAAY better than they did on console, maybe not by PC standards but blows consoles out of the water, also you can get about 3 more feet with a USB extension cable, but I doubt you'll need it

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i think some companies sell pc controllers, the only prob is that u have to set the keyboard and mouse keys to the buttons. or u can get a lap desk that can fit a mouse and keyboard over his lap