PC heads help me out: coworker is selling me a pre customized PC for 250.00
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In your dreams, I guess
It's an OK deal if you just need a desktop to browse CNN.com.
In all seriousness, I'm assuming you're actually trying to play games with a cheap build? You can get a more modern refurb from newegg for $100, pretty much any day of the year. Pick up a 950ti for $100 and you can probably run anything 1080p at 30-40 fps.
In all seriousness, I'm assuming you're actually trying to play games with a cheap build? You can get a more modern refurb from newegg for $100, pretty much any day of the year. Pick up a 950ti for $100 and you can probably run anything 1080p at 30-40 fps.
Golayitdown
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Be careful and research that upgrade before buying because typically you're not going to find a new motherboard that supports an 8 year old CPU AND the newest RAM specification. And even if it you can you immediately make your CPU your bottleneck leading to........ a cpu upgrade, which is what you could do in the first place by buying a new machine.
The problem with trying to upgrade much older hardware is that you wind up paying the same or even more than current gen prices for older/worse hardware. Once the generation changes and the hardware becomes outdated, you can wind up paying a premium to get it. It's not bad if you're a generation behind and just need to update a stick of RAM or cop a better processor that you just pop in, but once you swap that motherboard, you have to definitely consider the cost of upgrade.
$250 for the computer + $250 for upgrades isn't going to get you a better machine than building a machine brand new (or doing like I do and buying used parts individually). The only consideration would be if you don't have a monitor and keyboard and when then you could do a dual monitor setup for less than your $1000 budget.
Most barebones kits you can find on Newegg or TigerDirect can get you current hardware for not too much more than you'd pay for that old computer.
I went thru the same thing years ago with my LGA 775 mobo and threw it to the bushes after comparing the cost to upgrade the ram (which would eventually lead to a new Mobo and processor) to just buying a more current generation of hardware.
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The GTX 780 isn't bad (about 3000 VRAM for graphics), I'm still rocking 780 SLIx2 and it gets me good frames on almost max settings, but I'm not trying to push 4K this is all 1080p. Of course there's better cards out there I'm just saying. That processor/motherboard is holding you back seriously. Maybe my processor/RAM also helps a lot to carry me along some games 
to be clear I was only suggesting a new mobo to accommodate a new CPU, because the CPU is the first thing that needs to be upgraded
and yeah, it would be pointless searching for a 'better' LGA775 CPU. that shyt is ancient, and any new CPU would be much better. plus all the advancements made to SATA, PCI, and memory interface. that old stuff would have bottlenecks everywhere
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Bunch of these PC elitist will claim 1000 will get me a average pc i bet
well you could spend a lot moreBunch of these PC elitist will claim 1000 will get me a average pc i bet
Nah gimme a good pc 1000 bucks, that works smooth and can play Star Citizenwell you could spend a lot more
Golayitdown
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Yep I figured that's what you were saying. Just didn't want the advice to be misinterpreted and have him stuck in that upgrade loop.
Golayitdown
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How much work do you want to do in building one? (from beginning to end, mostly preconfigured with the main components, or no work at all)
You can do a 1151 build with a 1060 for about $850, but that doesn't include a keyboard, mouse, monitor, or Windows. Just depends on what hardware you have lying around to recycle to stay within that budget.
he should give you this for free or no more than 50 bucks since the case is probably the only useful thing in there