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i am attempting to buy a used dessktop for a ten year old
Posted on 12/22/13 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 12/22/13 at 1:21 pm
I am looking for a desktop to be used by a ten year old primarily for gaming. Does anyone have any useful suggestions or tips. It doesn't have to be top of line, just abeginner computer
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Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:34 pm to bencoleman
I've told chicken for years we needed a gaming board 
Posted on 12/22/13 at 9:48 pm to bencoleman
I actually bought a bad arse computer from Walmart.
It was like $299 and it is by far the best computer i have ever had in my life.
It's a Dell, not Apple
It was like $299 and it is by far the best computer i have ever had in my life.
It's a Dell, not Apple
Posted on 12/22/13 at 10:03 pm to bencoleman
You used the word 'gaming.' Can you explain what games he plans on playing on this thing?
Posted on 12/22/13 at 10:23 pm to Hopeful Doc
Solitaire, hearts, maybe a little minesweeper.
Posted on 12/22/13 at 11:22 pm to InVolNerable
Posted on 12/23/13 at 12:00 am to CaptainsWafer
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what a classic
Posted on 12/23/13 at 12:04 am to bencoleman
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primarily for gaming
Whatever it is, make sure it has a good graphics card and LOTS of memory. In about two years it will primarily be used for fapping.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 4:07 am to Hopeful Doc
He likes something called sky rim or something like that
Posted on 12/23/13 at 4:32 am to bencoleman
Here's the recommended Skyrim specs:
seeing as you're only required a Radeon 4890, you could pretty easily slap any AMD APU +~8GB RAM into a desktop and get by, bonus points for a quad-core APU (definitely a8 and up. Not sure about all a6 being quad or not). What's your price range? The site I would usually refer people to for a used desktop has been shut down, and I really haven't found a suitable replacement for it (geeks dotcom for anyone who knows a good alternative that isn't their business-class site). Tigerdirect has refurb and off-lease models. Most of these are complete business desktops with Intel inside, but there isn't a video card. You could pretty easily skate for $2-300 on one of them + a little graphics card, only problem is that you'd have to make sure the PSU could handle it, or you'll be buying a new PSU + graphics, and at that point, it's likely cheaper just to build it.
If you want advice there, i think there are some good threads over on the gaming board on the matter. I'm not much of a 'gamer,' but a walk through on how the components of a PC snap into their modular places is well within what I can help you with, if you need.
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Recommended Specs Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit) Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU 4GB System RAM 6GB free HDD space DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon 4890 or higher). DirectX compatible sound card Internet access for Steam activation
seeing as you're only required a Radeon 4890, you could pretty easily slap any AMD APU +~8GB RAM into a desktop and get by, bonus points for a quad-core APU (definitely a8 and up. Not sure about all a6 being quad or not). What's your price range? The site I would usually refer people to for a used desktop has been shut down, and I really haven't found a suitable replacement for it (geeks dotcom for anyone who knows a good alternative that isn't their business-class site). Tigerdirect has refurb and off-lease models. Most of these are complete business desktops with Intel inside, but there isn't a video card. You could pretty easily skate for $2-300 on one of them + a little graphics card, only problem is that you'd have to make sure the PSU could handle it, or you'll be buying a new PSU + graphics, and at that point, it's likely cheaper just to build it.
If you want advice there, i think there are some good threads over on the gaming board on the matter. I'm not much of a 'gamer,' but a walk through on how the components of a PC snap into their modular places is well within what I can help you with, if you need.
Posted on 12/23/13 at 7:13 am to CaptainsWafer
I'd completely forgotten about that game
Posted on 12/23/13 at 8:29 am to InVolNerable
quote:me too. I went and played it and after about 6 runs I got too pissed off and wanted to throw my computer in the trash
I'd completely forgotten about that game
Posted on 12/23/13 at 3:50 pm to Hopeful Doc
Thank you I found one I gotta put a graphics card in it but that's it
Posted on 12/25/13 at 11:31 pm to bencoleman
please post what you found.
Posted on 12/28/13 at 5:52 pm to brucevilanch
It is a lenovo running windows-8. It is working perfectly.
Posted on 12/30/13 at 6:04 pm to bencoleman
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He likes something called sky rim or something like that
How the he'll did you manage to not post this req on the gaming board? Nobody over here knows shite about gaming computers
Posted on 12/31/13 at 9:43 am to jcole4lsu
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Nobody over here knows shite about gaming computers
Not true.
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