I recently received, and, with nothing else to spend it on, I decided to get a budget...ish PC. Here's the situation. I have $100, a bit more for shipping. However, from an old friend, I have:
a GTX 660,
a 1TB HDD,
and an 120GB SSD
I intend on buying a cheap, used, full sized PC for around $100 and swapping out some of these parts. As I understand it, the GTX 660 isn't a tiny card, so I need a full sized PC. Anybody know of anything like this?
I've been researching for a while now, and there are plenty of Optiplex's that are cheap, but I'm not sure if a 660 will fit in it. There are also some Lenovo ThinkCentre desktops, but they also aren't full sized.
Secondhand - Craigslist or whatever your local alternative is, will be your best (and probably only) option. Just have a good look around for something full size (not SFF), with a PCI-E x16 slot, and the best CPU you can find. A decent PSU would be a good idea too.
If you don't mind building, used parts on amazon can be as low as as $15 instead of $50, only if you don't want it mostly premade.
I'd help you build one on amazon (I find they have to lowest priced used PC parts). If you absolute minimum to play mincecraft, were looking cheap as anything. If you want to play other games, you'll need a bit more of an investment.
I recently received, and, with nothing else to spend it on, I decided to get a budget...ish PC. Here's the situation. I have $100, a bit more for shipping. However, from an old friend, I have:
a GTX 660,
a 1TB HDD,
and an 120GB SSD
I intend on buying a cheap, used, full sized PC for around $100 and swapping out some of these parts. As I understand it, the GTX 660 isn't a tiny card, so I need a full sized PC. Anybody know of anything like this?
I've been researching for a while now, and there are plenty of Optiplex's that are cheap, but I'm not sure if a 660 will fit in it. There are also some Lenovo ThinkCentre desktops, but they also aren't full sized.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Secondhand - Craigslist or whatever your local alternative is, will be your best (and probably only) option. Just have a good look around for something full size (not SFF), with a PCI-E x16 slot, and the best CPU you can find. A decent PSU would be a good idea too.
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Look for something with at least a Core 2 Quad. I bought a PC off eBay for 50 bucks with a Q6600 and 4gb of ram.
Something like this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Optiplex-780-SFF-Intel-Core-2-Quad-Q6600-2-4GHz-2GB-RAM-320GB-Hard-Drive-/191904195665?hash=item2cae61a451:g:oNcAAOSwc1FXa~oW
Add another 4gb of ram, a cheapo $20 case, and a $30 500 watt EVGA power supply. Should be under $130ish
Avoid pretty much any Pentium 4 and the older AMD Athlons
Gaming PC Specs - Intel i5-2500K ~ ASUS P8P67M-Pro ~ Hyper 212+ ~ MSI GTX 970 OC ~ 8GB DDR3 Ram ~ 250GB Samsung EVO 850 ~ 500GB HardDrive ~ XFX 550w PSU ~ Fractal Core 1000 ~ Windows 8.1 ~ Samsung P2350 1080p Soon upgrading to GTX 1080/R9 490X + 1440p 144Hz
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If you don't mind building, used parts on amazon can be as low as as $15 instead of $50, only if you don't want it mostly premade.
I'd help you build one on amazon (I find they have to lowest priced used PC parts). If you absolute minimum to play mincecraft, were looking cheap as anything. If you want to play other games, you'll need a bit more of an investment.