About a gaming PC.

[colbubbie4]

Hello, This is my first thread here, but ive been a troll on these forums for about 5 months anyways. I was bored and looking on some websites and I came across this Acer Aspire pc. Acer Aspire T180 Desktop PC w/ 19" Widescreen LCD, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor 4000+ - Wal-Mart .

Now It says it has the X2 4000+ and I noticed it was duel core so I was like "Wow thats pretty cheap for a pc,monitor, and Operating System. But it only has a gig of ram so I was thinking about getting an extra 1 gig stick off of newegg and a 8800 gts. I was wondering if I could get basically the same or better pc w/ the 8800 2 gigs of ram, vista, monitor/ Basically all of that for the same or less of a price.

 

[krazyq]

well from looking at that tiny tiny case, i doubt that the gts would even fit. And you would need a better psu to support that card.
But other wise, the pricing isnt that bad, it comes with a monitor and thats a +.

I bet somone else could give you better advise though.

 

[dashogun]

You should build the computer yourself for the slightly more of a price. Usually prebuilt computers wouldn't come with overclocking features.

 

[krazyq]

Thats true, they always lock them in the bios, and also you dont know the brand of parts they will be putting in.

 

[b1gapl]

Hey colbobbie4,
Welcome to T.F.!!

Wal-Mart is definitely not the place to buy a computer. You can build a better computer for that price. Then again, that thing comes with everything, like the monitor, mouse and keys, and Windows.

 

[krazyq]

hey colbobie4, it will be cheaper if you go with amd, but intel is better.

Whats your budget?

 

[Sora]

That is not really that good of a price...it's just better than average.

 

[krazyq]

where do you live?

 

[b1gapl]

Case - Rosewill R5604-TBK
Motherboard - Biostar TF7025
CPU - AMD Athlon X2 3600+
RAM - 2 X 1GB G. Skill DDR2-800 NQs
Graphics - EVGA 8800GTS 320MB
Power Supply - Rosewill RP550V2 550W
Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB 16MB Cache
Monitor - Hanns-G 19" 5ms Widescreen
OS - Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

$967.42......just use your current mouse, keyboard, and cd drive....and you got yourself a better computer.

 

[krazyq]

good job b1gapl, i was waiting your you to suggest one.