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Update post #91 - Cupcake needs help for her little muffin. **Thank you everyone for your help**
May 21, 2014 at
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My son is a big time gamer and his computer is very old and slow. He has saved $1,000 for a new one. I'm so proud of him for saving his money for it.
It needs to be a gaming worthy Desktop computer.
Any suggestions for him?
He just needs a tower. Has a good monitor already.
Yes I know that we have a forum for this kinda thing, but I
my lounge friends and trust you to do me right.
It needs to be a gaming worthy Desktop computer.
Any suggestions for him?
He just needs a tower. Has a good monitor already.
Yes I know that we have a forum for this kinda thing, but I
my lounge friends and trust you to do me right.
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Having spent a fair amount on state of the art technology in yesteryears, $1000 for a gaming rig is about 2x what I'd personally spend on a rig though I do build my own PCs and have a decent stock of parts your son probably does not have (i.e. case, power supply, optical and hard drives).
So, I'm a bit miffed that people are belittling $1000 on a gaming PC. I think that your son can spend that amount and be thrilled with his purchase.
You don't need a $400-500 video card. One for $200 will be great. Hell, I spent $65 on my graphics card during that Best Buy $50 off $100 fiasco and have had it for 1+ years and still do great on it. Not the latest, not the greatest, but it plays all the 3+ year old titles I like great. I took about a 8 year hiatus on PC gaming because the addiction starting costing me. Now, for like $60, I have some 90+ steam and 20+ origin titles many of which were Triple A titles back in the day. Do I have Battlefield 4 or Titanfall? Nope, but one day when they're cheap (if ever, if not I won't buy).
Cupcake, all that I ask is that you promise to post a photo of your son's computer once he gets it!
So I need one already built. But I think for around $1,000 he can get one that will work great for him.
When I get one for him I will post a picture of it for sure.
Even without the upgrades it was over 1k. He saved and paid for it himself.
I wasn't belittling anyone, wasn't my intention.
Even without the upgrades it was over 1k. He saved and paid for it himself.
I wasn't belittling anyone, wasn't my intention.
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2. Click on "Outlet Home"
3. On the left hand side, beneath "Outlet Desktops" click on Alienware [dell.com]
4. Choose the system on the right (the third one in the center of the screen). It's the X51 R2 series machine.
5. Scroll down until you see the $1029 priced system
6. Here are the features:
Oh sorry... I quickly read the thread and cav mentioned that a graphics card can eat up half of a $1000 budget and your comment about $2500 rigs.... Personally, I've been impressed by what cheaper machines can do though I fully admit, I'm not demanding a 60 fps baseline on max settings with all titles on the market now.
I don't think Cupcake's son needs a $500 graphics card (which some of them go for $800 or $900 when I looked months ago) nor does he likely need a $2,500 rig either. Rather, for $1000, I think he can get a pretty state of the art machine that may not hit max AA'ing on 1920x1200, but can get pretty darn close. Also, I doubt that her son is doing QuadHD gaming which will definitely need a several thousand dollar machine to compute away for a while at current and future releases.
$1000 can get you quite a bit, and I don't want cupcake hesitating about making the purchase thinking that her son will ultimately be disappointed. Her son is going to load up some games and she's going to be like "Holy S***!!!!" on the graphics.
let's not even go there for OT or joke discussion. No need to confuse cupcake.
That one is pretty nice, I vote for that one.
Should exceed his needs and could easily upgrade the RAM with a SD score down the road.
Should exceed his needs and could easily upgrade the RAM with a SD score down the road.
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2. Click on "Outlet Home"
3. On the left hand side, beneath "Outlet Desktops" click on Alienware [dell.com]
4. Choose the system on the right (the third one in the center of the screen). It's the X51 R2 series machine.
5. Scroll down until you see the $1029 priced system
6. Here are the features: