Looking to spend $500 or less. Looking for a good jew deal. Using it for school and day to day browsing
Need tower only as i already have a good monitor
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Looking to spend $500 or less. Looking for a good jew deal. Using it for school and day to day browsing
Need tower only as i already have a good monitor
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Like this if your monitor has DVIOriginally Posted by incognito81
Like this if you have VGA / HDMI
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...213&CatId=2627
Memory Type DDR3
Total Memory Size 6GB
RAM Speed PC3-10600 1333MHz
Processor Brand Intel
Processor Class Core i3
Processor Number i3-2130
Processor Speed 3.4GHz
Processor Interface FCLGA1155
Hard Disk Drive Specifications
Hard Drives Included 1
Capacity 1TB
VGA and HDMI output
Buy my i5 quad.
Last edited by 4Dragons; 08-29-2013 at 04:48 PM.
If you're willing to spend a little more money, this site builds fantastic gaming PC for $500-$800. You can go longer before upgrading again. I got my current desktop from them and it was cheaper than buying the parts and building it myself.
http://www.ibuypower.com/2013/Labor-Day-Specials.aspx
Craigslist has PCs from people that bought a high end PC a few years ago and just want to get rid of it to buy a new high end PC. I'm sure there are plenty of scammers though.
I just got a $750 HP envy that was a floor model from Best Buy for $500. 6 core processor 10gb memory 1.5 tb hard drive.
Hope you have better luck then I did. Bought a floor model few yrs back and basically had to have it completely rebuilt under warrenty within a year (thank god it was within warranty). Whole new motherboard and some other shit due to catastrophic failure due to the abuse it apparently took as a display from others. (not to mention when I got it somehow it was already infected with crap and I had to run a full HD format and restore on it. Sometimes ya get good deals on displays sometimes the heartburn from the savings aint worth it. In your case I hope its ok.
Building your own PC is way more +ev than anything prepackaged ever.
This USED to be the case up until a couple years ago, when laptops/tablets/smartphones took over the market for the casual crowd. Since then, prepackaged desktop prices have dropped considerably, to the point where the benefits (price-wise) of building your own are negligible IMO. Then again, if quality, not price, is your main concern (and you want to pick out every individual component for the rig), then yes building is the way to go. But again, for price, if you are patient and deal/sale/coupon hunt, you can find deals.
I just ordered a new gaming pc for $700. It has the Core i7-4770 cpu, which retails at $300 on its own right now. I wouldn't have saved much on this machine trying to build it myself, especially considering time spent component shopping/doing the build.
There are other good suggestions in this thread. I'll add this one only because it is cheaper, and would be fine for the basic stuff you want to use it for. Plus you could avoid the windows 8 hassles and have the reliable win7.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883113268
It depends on the time of year that you buy. I've been building machines since 386 machines and there are certain times of the year that it becomes cheaper to buy a pre-built over a self built, those 2 times are Christmas and Back To School.This USED to be the case up until a couple years ago, when laptops/tablets/smartphones took over the market for the casual crowd. Since then, prepackaged desktop prices have dropped considerably, to the point where the benefits (price-wise) of building your own are negligible IMO. Then again, if quality, not price, is your main concern (and you want to pick out every individual component for the rig), then yes building is the way to go. But again, for price, if you are patient and deal/sale/coupon hunt, you can find deals.
I just ordered a new gaming pc for $700. It has the Core i7-4770 cpu, which retails at $300 on its own right now. I wouldn't have saved much on this machine trying to build it myself, especially considering time spent component shopping/doing the build.
PS that $300 machine you posted won't run any decent games. Just sayin'.
That link was for OP, not what I got. OP doesn't seem interested in games, just basic shiznit.It depends on the time of year that you buy. I've been building machines since 386 machines and there are certain times of the year that it becomes cheaper to buy a pre-built over a self built, those 2 times are Christmas and Back To School.
PS that $300 machine you posted won't run any decent games. Just sayin'.
It's only 700 until you try to take it apart to upgrade it. Most prepackaged PC's are designed in such a manner that upgrading it instead of buying a new one is a pain in the ass to prevent people from not buying new ones. Sure you save now, but in the future you don't. If I want a new PC all I have to do is buy a new processor and occasionally a new mobo. So you spend 700 now 700 in a couple years and 700 in a few more years whereas I spend 700 now, 200 in a couple years, maybe 300 the next.This USED to be the case up until a couple years ago, when laptops/tablets/smartphones took over the market for the casual crowd. Since then, prepackaged desktop prices have dropped considerably, to the point where the benefits (price-wise) of building your own are negligible IMO. Then again, if quality, not price, is your main concern (and you want to pick out every individual component for the rig), then yes building is the way to go. But again, for price, if you are patient and deal/sale/coupon hunt, you can find deals.
I just ordered a new gaming pc for $700. It has the Core i7-4770 cpu, which retails at $300 on its own right now. I wouldn't have saved much on this machine trying to build it myself, especially considering time spent component shopping/doing the build.
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