So my cousin likes to think himself a gamer. He's not, really, can't understand a word of English, total ADD (not the real one, mind you), a bit of a gadget freak that doesn't use any of it and doesn't really know anything.
Anyway, his best gaming machine was an old, used, Pentium D930 with a 6600GT. It died. And I had him buy the following hugely surprising (for me) build. He had the case and the HDD, but here it is:
A6 6400K - 60
MSI A55M-E33 motherboard - 45
4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz CL10 - 40
cheap ass 500W PSU - 15
And I built it, first time I put a CPU on a socket (easy as anything else, really), that tiny little cheap dual core APU, runs Windows 7 way WAY faster than the old piece of crap Pentium D, and I tried Tomb Raider 2013, on 720p, it runs at 30FPS!!!
Needless to say, my cousin is as happy as can be expected (which isn't much, considering he's not... well...), but he has a quite nice and tidy little machine that will last him for a while, he'll be able to get a 750Ti later on if he wants to spend a bit more, and a bigger HDD or even an SSD, and I just thing it's fantastic that, for so little money, you can get a system that's faster than my old Core 2 Duo E6550 on the CPU front (that I just replaced last November), if only by 10%, and is NEW.
Fantastic, and I just want to share it because if you're strapped for cash, you get this setup, a Mid ATX tower for cheap and a cheap HDD, and I reckon for about 210, you can have your own brand new EXPANSIBLE desktop computer that will run pre-2010 games fine, and it will be PERFECTLY adequate for browsing, mild photoshop, coding, work, video, and everything else my old C2D did. It's awesome!
Anyway, his best gaming machine was an old, used, Pentium D930 with a 6600GT. It died. And I had him buy the following hugely surprising (for me) build. He had the case and the HDD, but here it is:
A6 6400K - 60
MSI A55M-E33 motherboard - 45
4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz CL10 - 40
cheap ass 500W PSU - 15
And I built it, first time I put a CPU on a socket (easy as anything else, really), that tiny little cheap dual core APU, runs Windows 7 way WAY faster than the old piece of crap Pentium D, and I tried Tomb Raider 2013, on 720p, it runs at 30FPS!!!
Needless to say, my cousin is as happy as can be expected (which isn't much, considering he's not... well...), but he has a quite nice and tidy little machine that will last him for a while, he'll be able to get a 750Ti later on if he wants to spend a bit more, and a bigger HDD or even an SSD, and I just thing it's fantastic that, for so little money, you can get a system that's faster than my old Core 2 Duo E6550 on the CPU front (that I just replaced last November), if only by 10%, and is NEW.
Fantastic, and I just want to share it because if you're strapped for cash, you get this setup, a Mid ATX tower for cheap and a cheap HDD, and I reckon for about 210, you can have your own brand new EXPANSIBLE desktop computer that will run pre-2010 games fine, and it will be PERFECTLY adequate for browsing, mild photoshop, coding, work, video, and everything else my old C2D did. It's awesome!
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