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How's this for a cheap azz 2nd PC?

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firebirdude

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Girlfriend needs a desktop. She has a laptop that's probably 5+ years old and is starting to give her troubles even when it's plugged into the wall. Not to mention it's slower than dirt.

Second, she has started getting into some light gaming. She's playing Portal 2 on my desktop right now. Soooooo..... I thought if I built her something cheap, she'd be happy. And I mean cheap. Here's what I bought:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200
Intel DQ45CB motherboard
4GB DDR2 RAM (possibly upgrading to 8 if I can find some cheap)
Radeon 260X 2GB video card
OCZ Arc 240GB SSD
Crappy little case, optical drive, etc.
Total = ~$230

So? How do you guys think it will run? Should be plenty for light gaming?
 
Define light gaming.. That's a low clocked CPU with poor single thread performance, but the 260X helps a lot.
 
Just said she's playing Portal 2. And it doesn't have to be on max detail....

Yeah, it's only 2.33GHz. But it's quad core and was cheap. It's lightyears ahead of what she currently has. And the SSD should help with snappiness in windows. Heck, between the 260X and the SSD, you can tell I didn't pay much for everything else...
 
If that's the ITX Intel Q45 board, it only supports up to 65W CPUs. How you are getting a Q8200 (and not a Q8200S) to boot in that board confuses me.

http://processormatch.intel.com/Processors/CompatibleProcessors?componentName=DQ45CB

Ok, I know I'm not crazy, I read accounts of people with this board, getting BIOS messages, with greater than 65W CPUs. But Intel's processor-compatibility widget says it's compatible. If I had known that, I might have put some quad-cores in mine. Although I don't think that the cooling in my ITX cases would allow 95W CPUs either.
 
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I think it is a pretty good this considering it has 260x and a 240GB SSD.

Though the thing is that computer is not upgradable as the CPU is very old which would bottleneck most modern midrange-highend graphics card.
 
lol this system will never be upgraded. It was designed to be disposable.

You guys think it will play Portal 2 on max details? Not that it has to be, just trying to get a benchmark.
 
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