new to pc gaming

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Hi every1 ,just a little bit of advice please i have always played consoles and completly new to pc gaming , i have no clue how to get the best settings on pc . and struggling to workout how to even set my pc up for gaming .
I have just brought a msi720 gaming motherboard , with a AMD FX(tm)-8150 eight core processor 360GHz , AMD Radeon R9200 GPU , 16GB HyperX BLACK ram , any help or advive would be much appreiciated thanks Phil

[Cathulhu]

Whatever you paid for that computer, it was wasted money. That is a bunch of junk. Even back then the Radeon R9200 videocard was simply e-waste. And that was 20 years ago.

Get your money back. If someone sold you that as gaming capable, you were scammed.

[Marble]

Have you actually built this system yet?

I don't know what an MSI720 even is.

R9200 GPU doesn't exist. I'm assuming you mean an R9 200 series GPU, but which one? There are a good half dozen of them.

Assuming all these components are actually compatible with each other, what you have here is trash. It's all well over a decade old and wasn't very good even when it was new.

You'd be looking at playing games from the mid-late 2000's like Dragon Age or Arkham Asylum.

Anything newer than that is going to struggle to run.

[Ogami]

Yeah have to agree with Cathulhu here. That CPU is pure garbage and was outdated garbage 10 years ago.
Same for the graphic card, over 10 years old and already bad when released.

I hope you did not pay much for that pile of outdated trash or you got massively scammed.
Thats a system you get for like 150 bucks 2nd hand on EBAY.

[nullable]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Cathulhu:

Whatever you paid for that computer, it was wasted money. That is a bunch of junk. Even back then the Radeon R9200 videocard was simply e-waste. And that was 20 years ago.

Get your money back. If someone sold you that as gaming capable, you were scammed.

I'm gonna wager that it's R9 200, not a Radeon 9200. (although R9 200 is a series, not a model too, so still a problem of vagueness).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_200_series (newer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R200_series (older, what you're thinking of)

A R9 200 series would be more likely since the FX 8150 is gonna be an a PCI-E platform and the Radeon 9200 (R200 series) is an AGP card from twenty years ago (which seems like what you're referencing). Granted the overlapping naming conventions from decades of models does get messy.

But to your point I would agree ~10ish year old AMD Bulldozer CPU and GPU is still not worth the money. The CPU's were pretty subpar back then and time will not have been kind to them, and even a great GPU from 2013 is gonna be pretty bad off nowadays, unless you're only playing games from that period.


@OP, running such dated hardware you're gonna have to do your homework on a game per game basis. There just isn't a simple answer to your question. Demanding titles from the last five years may be well out of your reach, so I'd make sure to do your homework before buying anything.

You may want to be a little more specific on the GPU side though because R9 200 is a series of GPU's, the specific model is going to matter a lot. Which model are you specifically running: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_200_series#Desktop_models

[RPG Gamer Man]

MSI, for those that do not know, is a brand sold at walmart as gaming pc's. I once tried to buy one from them, and found out how bad they are. I never will buy a pc again from walmart. They sell horrible gaming pc's. I now buy my pc's from Micro Center, as they have better pre built pc's. I think OP probably bought a pc at their local walmart. Used to be that the sold middle and low type pc's about 20 years ago, but there recent stuff is crap. Same as with Best Buy. Used to be they sold nice stuff, now most of it is crap. As others have said, that pc is very badly built.