friend may buy some guys desktop for $850.. is this a good deal?

[opponheimer]

Aluminum gigabyte triton case
thermaltake power supply 480w
asus crosshair motherboard
80 gb harddrive
dvdrw
acer 19" high contrast LCD flatscreem
amd 4000+ (x2)
ATI 2400 HD graphics card in it right now but he said he might switch it out and give me him a nvidia 7600 gt card for an extra 50 bucks
2gb ram

copper cooling pipes routed through the system for cooling (not water cooled)

its got an lcd screen in the back that tells you any error codes
its got a power and reset button on the motherboard itself

mouse/keyboard

thats all my friend told me.

comes with xp cuz "its better for gaming"

is $850 worth it

[SexPanda]

I got my computer for half that cost, 2 gig ram 200 gig hard drive, lcd monitor, et cetera et cetera...

im sure your friend could find a better deal on a NEW computer... Used computers might have stuff you dont want... if you catch my drift.

[lil240sx95]

yeah thats like one of the worst things to buy used. I wouldn't go for it, even if it was that cheap.

[TheWolf]

that is an awesomely expensive gaming computer lacking a video card really. the case and the lack of fans (heat pipe cooling) are big pluses but the price is high. Your friend probably won't apreciate the mods.

[azndoc]

You should be asking CKAMC (Chris)

I think he's a pretty good computer geek.

I'm surprised he hasn't posted about it yet.

[Yum-Yum]

hey guys im the one considering buying the setup, its really clean not any dust he never uses it hes not into gaming anymore...its a complete setup its got speakers too. its got a shitload of fans too along with those copper piping. a bunch of led lights too

[Phoenix_95]

I would personally skip that deal and just build one yourself. Yea, it has some decent stuff in it but, a computer is a pretty bad thing to buy secondhand. My 2 cents :faint:

[mrmephistopheles]

just build your own.
I wouldn't pay more than $300-500 for that rig (but I haven't taken a close look at it).

[CKAMC]

yeah $500 tops for that

oOo he has stock fanless heatsinks for the north bridge and south bridge...

for the price that thermaltake goes for you can actually get a QUALITY unit... TT fans are just like honda ricers IMO, TT brand is just a knock off crap brand. I hate them as you can tell

HD2400 is ok for being a DX10 card...but its fairly over priced for what it performs, if you cheap and can stay with DX9 go ahead and grab a 7950GT ($170 range). If your looking into the $140 range a 8600GT (dx10) or a 7900GS (DX9)

80GB hard drive.... what a joke, hard drives are so cheap these days you can buy a 320GB one for $99

acer 19" monitor.... so many better brands like samsung and for the same price or less for what this guy may be tacking on

the motherboard is a good brand

the case is wack

what type of 2GB ram?

IS this a 939 socket or a AM2 socket?

XP is $89 if your building a system from scratch FYI

if you have a case, keyboard,mouse,monitor that you dont mind sticking with then for $800 you can build something a LOT better than what right there.

$1500 and you can build a whole new system (monitor, speakers, ect)
$800~900 into just the tower gets you pretty far.

AMD is so cheap and come on you REALLY dont need the best best best intel setup.... its not like your a professional gamer or anything. Your playing games to have FUN FUN

[azndoc]

^^^

See OP I told you he was a comp. Geek.

[BustedS13]

you could easily build something far nicer than that. plus it'd be new. i built this one for about 650, and it's just a 4200+, and i put it together before the core 2 duo's came out, so my chip cost about 2-3 times what it'd cost now.

[opponheimer]

hahaha thanks guys

[mrmephistopheles]

80GB hard drive.... what a joke, hard drives are so cheap these days you can buy a 320GB one for $99

You mean 500GB drives for $100

[kyoru]

pass on it, it is not worth 850.

[BustedS13]

You mean 500GB drives for $100

yeah, hdd space is dirt cheap now. i've got two 750's and a 300, but i think i'm gonna switch to three 750's and put my OS on a jump drive.

[CKAMC]

yeah, hdd space is dirt cheap now. i've got two 750's and a 300, but i think i'm gonna switch to three 750's and put my OS on a jump drive.

you mean onto a Solid State Drive right?

[Pank]

i'd hope he means that, if he puts it on a normal flash drive, that thing will be dead within a month, if not less. They have limited writes, fyi

[Yum-Yum]

wow, thanks for all the help guys.

[s13gold]

and if you cant build your own. "DUDE, you're gettin a DELL".

[CKAMC]

too much spyware and corporate junk they put into dell, sony, hp machine's

if you cant build one or if your lazy get one via newegg, ibuypower, abs computers.... thats where you can find the real deals.

[DUFFM4N]

yeah $500 tops for that

oOo he has stock fanless heatsinks for the north bridge and south bridge...

for the price that thermaltake goes for you can actually get a QUALITY unit... TT fans are just like honda ricers IMO, TT brand is just a knock off crap brand. I hate them as you can tell

HD2400 is ok for being a DX10 card...but its fairly over priced for what it performs, if you cheap and can stay with DX9 go ahead and grab a 7950GT ($170 range). If your looking into the $140 range a 8600GT (dx10) or a 7900GS (DX9)

80GB hard drive.... what a joke, hard drives are so cheap these days you can buy a 320GB one for $99

acer 19" monitor.... so many better brands like samsung and for the same price or less for what this guy may be tacking on

the motherboard is a good brand

the case is wack

what type of 2GB ram?

IS this a 939 socket or a AM2 socket?

XP is $89 if your building a system from scratch FYI

if you have a case, keyboard,mouse,monitor that you dont mind sticking with then for $800 you can build something a LOT better than what right there.

$1500 and you can build a whole new system (monitor, speakers, ect)
$800~900 into just the tower gets you pretty far.

AMD is so cheap and come on you REALLY dont need the best best best intel setup.... its not like your a professional gamer or anything. Your playing games to have FUN FUN


:ugh: ...i was JUST typing all of this :keke:

[mr2man07]

go to newegg and order your stuff, or tigerdirect.com

$675 for my pentium dual core 2.4ghz e660 processor, asus motherboard, geforece 7600gs (free from a friend, was brand new in box), and 2 250gb hard drives and a stick of 1gb ddr3 ram ( i need 2gb bad..., vistas a hog)

But on my linux machine, Fedora runs flawlessly at 1gb and my dual core, love it!

[kandyflip445]

Isn't the heatpipes stock on that motherboard?

I wouldn't buy it. That graphics card (the nvidia 7600 GT) isn't all that expensive and it is going to go down in price as soon as the 9000 series cards come out. And new ones come out all the damn time it feel like.

Just build your own, it's retarded easy and you get what you want. I'd use all SATA drives too. It's what I did and HD's with 16MB cache's or bigger.

[BustedS13]

i'd hope he means that, if he puts it on a normal flash drive, that thing will be dead within a month, if not less. They have limited writes, fyi


sounds like i need to do more research. but yeah.

[JRas]

Aluminum gigabyte triton case
thermaltake power supply 480w
asus crosshair motherboard
80 gb harddrive
dvdrw
acer 19" high contrast LCD flatscreem
amd 4000+ (x2)
ATI 2400 HD graphics card in it right now but he said he might switch it out and give me him a nvidia 7600 gt card for an extra 50 bucks
2gb ram

copper cooling pipes routed through the system for cooling (not water cooled)

its got an lcd screen in the back that tells you any error codes
its got a power and reset button on the motherboard itself

mouse/keyboard

thats all my friend told me.

comes with xp cuz "its better for gaming"

is $850 worth it

It's not worth it even if it was much cheaper the hardware selection is poor. If your friend wants a nice computer tell him to either build it himself or look for a new build I don't recommend looking at ebay and such the best place to find a good build is some computer forums.

here is a few off the top of my head.
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