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USED PC

Created by Bl4ckDiam0nd on June 20, 2012, 2:29 p.m.
  • I'm going to buy a used pc from my friend - he wants $425 for it, though. Is the machine worth it?

    Specs:

    MID/LEVEL GAMING/HOME COMPUTER TOWER. Athlon ii x3 455 triple core processor, Asus HD7770-DC-1GD5 AMD 7770 Chipset (1020Mhz) 1GB (4600MHz) GDDR5 graphic card, Corsair XMS3 Classic 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz CL9 memory, MSI 760GM-P23 (FX) AMD Series Motherboard, Western Digital Caviar Blue (WD5000AAKX) 500GB SATA3 6GB/s 7200RPM 16MB hard drive, OCZ 600watt modular 80plus certified power supply in a BitFenix Merc Alpha Black Mid ATX case.

  • @Bl4ckDiam0nd: Its worth it as in you probably couldn't buy comparable parts new right now for the same price, but I wouldnt say hes cutting you much of a deal.

  • @Bl4ckDiam0nd: Just as an aside, since you're asking here it doesn't seem like you know your parts or fiddle with the insides of PCs very often. So the fact that it's all put together and working already is worth something as well. I don't know what price I would put on skipping the heart-stopping feeling you get when your PC doesn't start up when you flip the switch for the first time. :)

  • @gpbmike said:

    @Bl4ckDiam0nd: Just as an aside, since you're asking here it doesn't seem like you know your parts or fiddle with the insides of PCs very often. So the fact that it's all put together and working already is worth something as well. I don't know what price I would put on skipping the heart-stopping feeling you get when your PC doesn't start up when you flip the switch for the first time. :)

    Think the PC could game or no?

  • @CrippleCaptain said:

    @Bl4ckDiam0nd: Its worth it as in you probably couldn't buy comparable parts new right now for the same price, but I wouldnt say hes cutting you much of a deal.

    Think the PC could game or no?

  • Oh yeah it'll game fine, the video card is still decent (I mean you wont be playing the witcher 2 on max settings or anything) but its going to play games like say diablo 3 on max no doubt. your major benfit here is its ddr3 so you could upgrade to 8 even 16GB of ram for like $100. really your only significant crappy part is that its an amd x3 cpu and not an intel system, but for gaming the video card will do most of the leg work anyways.


  • @CrippleCaptain said:

    Oh yeah it'll game fine, the video card is still decent (I mean you wont be playing the witcher 2 on max settings or anything) but its going to play games like say diablo 3 on max no doubt. your major benfit here is its ddr3 so you could upgrade to 8 even 16GB of ram for like $100. really your only significant crappy part is that its an amd x3 cpu and not an intel system, but for gaming the video card will do most of the leg work anyways.

    Thanks for your knowledge :)