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Decent $500ish computer?
pinballjim:
Great links, guys, thanks.
Regarding this one:
--- Quote from: xefned on October 13, 2012, 04:35:37 pm ---Quiet cocktail cab, Dual core Pentium
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My $40 special is 3Ghz. Is that 2.6 really going to be faster?
SithMaster:
My advice is to reuse your case (check for cd key label if it will work with your desired operating system) and check for part sales via slickdeals.net. Maybe a month(?) ago they advertised a newegg sale for a $145 build missing only a harddrive (pc case included) so if you don't need your fix now wait and see what comes along. Premade isn't worth the extra cost for the bragging rights of owning a brand name desktop.
From newegg look into the corsair builder series 400 or 430w psu (~$20 with rebate if it will meet power requirements), ram that will match your mobo slots (ram is ram so unless you plan on overclocking go with something not too cheap), the recommended video card for torchlight 2 or better, a motherboard that has features you want, and a cpu that meets or exceeds torchlights requirements. I don't know if your previous HP AMD experience has turned you away from AMD processors or not so just keep in mind that you should pick a processor and then find an acceptable board to go with it. You also might be able to skip a graphics card if the motherboard you pick has decent on board graphics processing otherwise go Nvidia since ATI has a stupid numbering system.
I'm curious if your replacement is multicore or not. Keep in mind that the 2.6 is per core making it more like 5.2 total.
edit-reread your post and answered my own question.
xefned:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 13, 2012, 06:32:04 pm ---
My $40 special is 3Ghz. Is that 2.6 really going to be faster?
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Yes. But not enough to justify 8x the cost. It's pretty hard to beat $40. You might just wanna stick with that till the black friday sales.
Damn, that's quite a bang-for-the-buck find. Most computers I've seen at Goodwill are from 2001.
pinballjim:
--- Quote from: xefned on October 13, 2012, 10:05:04 pm ---Yes. But not enough to justify 8x the cost. It's pretty hard to beat $40. You might just wanna stick with that till the black friday sales.
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Yeah, my wife will love that. ;D
--- Quote ---Damn, that's quite a bang-for-the-buck find. Most computers I've seen at Goodwill are from 2001.
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I've actually done fairly well raiding whatever is on clearance. The LCD I'm currently using was $20.
Don't get me wrong, this thing is a crummy single core Celeron D (with "Connie's Computer - DON'T SELL" written on the side in marker) but it boots quick and actually quite a bit snappier than the one it replaced. I also can't knock the software suite they put on it. XP has done over 100 updates as soon as I got it online, though. Yeah, you read that right. 100+. It spent 2 hours shutting down earlier today.
Won't recognize a couple of harddrives from my other system and Torchlight unfortunately runs like crap... but it'll download and burn Dexter... :P
lilshawn:
I upgraded my rig not to long ago with an AMD FX 4100 AM3+ processor and asus board combo and 4 gb ram...reused everything else... was about 100 for the CPU and about 100 for the board and 40 for ram.
i splurged a little on the board (could have bought one for 58) so i can upgrade to an 8 core processor later by just dropping it in. so about 250+tax and i'm rollin.
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