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03-23-2013
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Going for the Gold
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 105
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Good Desktop Computers!
Hey I was wondering if anyone knew any good desktop computers for gaming and skype etc. If you do feel free to post a link or tell me what the name of it is my price range is 300-500 so if there are any good Desktops feel free to post it here! ,Thanks Envi |
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03-23-2013
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Freelance Developer
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,111
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Buy a Dell. Then overtime, upgrade parts to improve it for gaming. |
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03-23-2013
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Going for the Gold
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 105
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Ok thanks 99
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03-24-2013
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Lie, never to rise.
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 1,716
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Or better idea is to build your own.. Not all that hard...And its much better than getting a built one anyway.
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03-24-2013
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299,792,458 m/s
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Lebanon
Posts: 3,581
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I'd buy an i3 with 300-500 with a 4GB RAM, Radeon VC, 350 GB would be enough. People wouldn't really need 1 TB for gaming, nor need the best VGA out there since all games run at a good rate... |
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03-24-2013
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don't call it a comeback
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 8,268
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I would recommend building your own rig, but there's really not much you can do in your price range. Actually, you could probably make a decent rig for around $500. Built one around that price range a year or two ago and it was pretty sufficient for the games I played.
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03-24-2013
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The Psychonaut
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Middle o' space
Posts: 1,527
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Definately, can't stress this enough: BUILD YOUR OWN. With $800.00, you could play Far Cry 3 easily, and do any other PC tasks easily. |
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03-24-2013
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Wundahland!
Posts: 1,921
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800 on a PC? Woah.
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03-24-2013
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 2,912
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£800's not enough! For a good gaming PC anyway. With 300 - 500 as your price range, you won't be able to build that great of a gaming PC. You could build one, it could probably run good graphics as well, but I'd recommend saving up more, till atleast 1000, though I'm not sure how much parts are in the US. But if your still looking to buy one, I watched a video a while back on JackFrags building a gaming PC with just £300. He even tests it at the end, if you want to watch that. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh455l3348s |
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03-24-2013
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Sweden
Posts: 5,945
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03-25-2013
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ENGUARD
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Canada
Posts: 996
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If you don't know how to build a computer, you can always go to your local hardware store and they might assemble it for you at a cost.
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03-25-2013
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Professional Burger
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: McDonalds
Posts: 2,564
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You don't need $800+ to have a good gaming rig, really. If you're fine playing games on high/medium settings a $500 computer can run everything besides the occasional glorified tech demo (I'm looking at you, Crysis 3). Note: I define a "Good" rig as something that can run the currently 'high end' games at the time with medium settings at 40+ fps. Running (literally) everything on max settings 1080 60fps is not a good rig, its a behemoth monster machine.
Last edited by Pimpsy G.; 03-25-2013 at 12:58 AM.
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03-25-2013
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 1,059
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Building your own will save you tons of cash
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03-25-2013
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: En La Caja
Posts: 1,679
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What...? Each part you get normally comes with warranty... If they're on budget, you should probably suggest something AMD- AMD doesn't have the best cpu out there, but they have good CPUs for those on a budget.
and I'm going to assume you mean GPU instead of VGA...? |
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03-25-2013
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Going for the Gold
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 105
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Thanks Guys I guess I'm going to build my own. I found some info on how to build a Pc and what parts I need to build it so im going to start buying as soon as possible
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