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I'm looking for the cheapest possible PC to play Stepmania and Dance With Intensity. The computer will never be used for anything else, so I'm thinking anything in the neighborhood of 500 mhz 128 MB ram will do it. There have been some good deals on Ebay, but do any of you know of other good cheap places to look?
www.thefuckerthatstolemylaptop.com
Seriously... buy one off the street in your local large city.
You'd be suprised what you can buy in an alleyway.
Well, if you haven't done so already, check out your local Best Buy and look at their open item PCs. Nearly a year ago, I got a pretty decent PC for $420 due to this. Buy a warranty on it though, just to be safe.
88 stop whining :p Next time you will know better than leave the thing in your car ;)
Dude, I was there for, like, 20 mins. I got totally sidetracked by one of my sexy ass female roommates. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Despair
88 stop whining :p Next time you will know better than leave the thing in your car ;)
I wasn't thinking "oh, there is pricy stuff in my car"... you know?
I know man, shit like that sucks. Fuck, I would be agnry same way, if that would have happen to me.
CompUSA usually has a table of clearance PC's too, so you might want to check there as well.Quote:
Originally posted by Jeremy
Well, if you haven't done so already, check out your local Best Buy and look at their open item PCs. Nearly a year ago, I got a pretty decent PC for $420 due to this. Buy a warranty on it though, just to be safe.
Go to your local Chinese owned computer store and aske them to put one together for you.
Thanks guys. I just got one from Ebay. It is the same computer I use at work, so I felt comfortable knowing exactly what it was. It is more powerful than I thought I needed, but it was still cheap and now I can run apps like Photoshop or Flash if I want to.
$325 including shipping
Dell Precision 420 800 mhz PIII
512 MB RDRAM RAM
18 Gig SCSI hardrive
64MB video RAM
Very good deal.
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Originally posted by Jeremy
Very good deal.
...No it isn't.
Meh, it's close enough. :bang:Quote:
Originally posted by Rich
...No it isn't.
:p
Not saying anything against you, just pointing out how clueless Jeremy is.
For an extra hunder, you could have gotten this..
http://www.ibuypower.com/confirm/con...tb-ddr-333.htm
and I could have sent ya an OS. :p
Rich, clueless? I gave him advice based on first-hand experience. Sorry for trying to be... what's that word... ah, helpful.
Well don't tell someone they got a very good deal when in fact it wasn't all that good.
Well, I thought he did get a good deal. It's all relative anyway. What you consider a good deal is different than what I'd consider to be a good deal, and so on so forth.
Well, Rich's selection was a much better deal.
A good deal is something that's cheap, not something that isn't. You're a fucking moron.
That's okay, if you're not going to do anything too intensive on it. Trying to run PhotoShop or Flash? It'll work, just not that fast. Oh, and you may crash up PShop if you try to do too many layers at once.
Really bad deal.Quote:
Originally posted by Chibi Nappa
$325 including shipping
Dell Precision 420 800 mhz PIII
512 MB RDRAM RAM
18 Gig SCSI hardrive
64MB video RAM
At newegg.com recently, I upgraded my P3-500 to a very nice Athlon 2400 for about that same cost.
Nforce2 motherboard with onboard 5.1 Dolby sound and ethernet = $85
Athlon 2400+ = $85
256x2 = 512 PC2100 DDR RAM = $75
Antec Lanboy case with 350w powersupply = $85
Total = $330
Free FedEx saver shipping on everything too.
Put in your old hard drive, video card, CD drives, and whatever else, and it's a brand-new computer for what you just bought an old one for. You could've put together a full Athlon 1.5ghz rig for about the same price.
Not trying to ruin your day or anything, just giving you some perspective.
But it was a "very good deal"!!!
:lol:
Jeremy is a moron
Yeah, that isn't exactly cheap.
Oh, If you're going for Stepmania and DWI, you should probably get something like a P3 600, assuming you at least want some background movies to be playing.