Challenge for you all

[Walking-Decoy]

[b][u][color=#FF0000]The challenge: [/color][/u][/b]

Need a super cheap gaming computer that I can keep in Tampa while visitng here so I can play with you guys while visitng home and keep improving and building up the competition OSG team.

[color=#FF0000][u][b]Budget: [/b][/u][/color]

350 bucks MAX. Anything less would be awesome.

Budget is *EXTREMELY* important at the moment... As it stands this is still a planning phase and it may take a couple months for me to get the components... but I'd like to have them by end of February so I can play while here during any visit after that.

[b][u][color=#FF0000]What I already have[/color][/u][/b]:

I have a decent monitor (though on occassion it has issues with randomly changing inputs on me...this can probably be fixed if I dedicated some time to it or found someone that knows how to fix shit like that though)

A hard drive probably big enough for XP\Win7 and CS:GO, which is the only thing this pc would really be used for... I think it's around 120gb or something.

A case

Mouse\Keyboard\Mousepad\Headphones I have

All assorted cabling

Spare CD\DVD drives for the OS install...

[color=#FF0000][b][u]Things I *MIGHT* have available:[/u][/b][/color]

I potentially even have a motherboard that might be newish enough to use. If this is worth looking into due to cost savings and keeping me under budget let me know.

I might have some DDR2 available as well.

Possibly even a chip, though it's probably in the range of 3-4 years old. I'd have to see what kind as it's my parents old PC (though they tend to buy pretty good computers just no video card or gaming stuff with it)

The three components above would have to be canabalized from an old parents PC they aren't using. Not sure if they'd be cool with that. lol...So let's see if we can make this work without the 3 things above and if not possible, let me know.


I love building PC's but unfortunately with all the business and eviciting my tenant and etc down here, I have no time unfortunately to research this. I'm hoping some of you guys might help.

Thanks guys!!
GO GO GO!

[Dragoon]

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[Dragoon]

You could even use the spare change to bump it up to 8 GB of ram

[Dragoon]

after looking at some benchmarks I gimped on the video card a bit... This one should work though.


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[Christine]

[quote name='Dragoon' timestamp='1358989962' post='7251']
after looking at some benchmarks I gimped on the video card a bit..
[/quote]


hes alrdy tryin to fuk ya..... : )

[gplaydee]

Press f10 and you'll get an additional 10% off.

[Fusion]

i have a 9800 gts graphics card i can mail to you.

[Borgie]

^this man. he deserves a medal of honor

[CousinBo]

Give me a little bit and ill find you one on craigslist. I was known by my clan members in the clan I ran to call the people that were selling them and bring them down. Jut let me know the major city you're next to. I can also build them if that falls through.

[Walking-Decoy]

[quote name='Fusion' timestamp='1359045563' post='7296']
i have a 9800 gts graphics card i can mail to you.
[/quote]
Will that be able to run CS:GO at a good enough fps?

That's freaking awesome btw man... Seriously. I think a graphic card may be the *only* part I don't think I can scavange from elsewhere.

[Walking-Decoy]

Alright well my Pops is letting me us his desktop... With all the main components except it's a lil old. Here is what I have to work with...

It's a P4 Dual Core 3.0 Ghz, plenty of HD space, 3 GB ram, WinXP... and the mother of all GPU's, a GeForce 7600 GS.

Think it will play CS:GO as is? What if I toss in the gifted 9800 GS up above?

I'm also thinking about upgrading the cpu as well.. I'm sure there is probably a super cheap cpu I can get as well for 30-40 bucks that will be better.

[Walking-Decoy]

Crap crap crap... Went out and got a gfx card to use for a couple days until I figured out what to do...and uh oh doesnt fit into the motherboard. Looks like I have an AGP Motherboard. Do they even make graphics cards for these? lolol

It's a AGP V 1.5 AGP Pro slot.

[Gohda]

Crap man, does anyone even make AGP cards now? I can ask a buddy of mine that does electronics recycling if he has anything lying around.

[Walking-Decoy]

^That would be great. Thanks!

I'm still looking at other options in the meantime. If anything a Motherboard that can run PCIe stuff is probably not too much... I think the Dual Core P4 3ghz should be enough if I can just get a beefy enough gpu in there. All I want is 70 solid fps!!

[Walking-Decoy]

Is this a good deal?
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[Walking-Decoy]

btw... Found a complete PC that has a PCI 64bit slot.

[Gohda]

That's awesome... it has a floppy!

[Guest]

[quote name='Walking-Decoy' timestamp='1359491449' post='7631']
Is this a good deal?
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[/quote]
Looks like it to me.

[quote name='Gohda' timestamp='1359495199' post='7634']
That's awesome... it has a floppy!
[/quote]
Wow...

[Gohda]

Floppy hater! 1.44 MB of PURE AWESOME.

[Dragoon]

Looks good to me.

[Walking-Decoy]

Turns out that my dad's new personal laptop plays CS well enough for my needs until I get back to my apartment in Massachusettes... My next plan when I get back however is to make my gaming desktop highly portable. ColtonO showed me a few custom motherboard that help make your computer very small and portable so I'm just going to go that route instead. It may mean buying another MB, but that way I don't have to worry about constantly upgrading two systems...Besides my tower at home is ungodly big and weighs like 40+pounds... Between selling that and the MB, I should be able to pay for most of the new compact Motherboard.

Now I just gotta pick out one of these super small Motherboards.

THanks everyone for the help and time you put into this!

[zutron]

If it doesnt have 5" floppy then this PC suck ass. MS-DOS 5" Floopy Drive IBM Turbo 66Mhz 16 MB Ram, 512 MB HDD all u need.

[Gohda]

That 512MB HDD retails at a mere $3999.99 USD!