Cheap “gaming” computer?

Budget?

Can get a pretty good for one for 739.

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You're looking at a refurb at that price range.

This is the best I could find

Still over 500 tho.

Is a Steam Deck something that would fall in the “cool enough” spectrum? Feel like the portability would really appeal to an 11yo, unless he’s specified that he wants a PC or laptop.

Get him a 410 instead or maybe some football gear


He’ll thank you later when he doesn’t grow up to be an “adult gamer”

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Dude, that's E-waste

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Gotcha. I've never had one before so had no opinion on quality.

Jawa.gg

Something like this?

This site has been useful to me in the past. It's a smaller marketplace of pc builders thats almost like a facebook marketplace. You can usually find a good deal on here. I bought my PC here 2 years ago and had a great experience with no issues. You can check their build components against a PC part builder site to see if it's cheaper to buy pre-made from them, or build yourself.

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Would prefer to keep it under $500 but if there isn’t anything worth that is go a little higher

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Your best bet at that price is a refurbished one.

Something like this:

Amazon refurbished PC

It will play most games, but not at the highest settings. Older games can be played with higher settings.

You'd need to buy a monitor, and there are others with more options for higher prices if you look for similar ones. This one has a smaller HD, but it's SSD.

Here's one for $500 without a monitor that's not refurbished. What sucks about it is that the graphics card isn't separate. I personally wouldn't buy it for that reason, but if you don't ever plan on upgrading it etc, it's not a bad deal.

$500