Right, so my friend has never had a computer that plays any games, let alone barely go on the internet. So I gave him my old PII and figured for $160 he could get a Sempron64 2500+ ($60) a Biostar G6100 s754 mobo ($60) and 512mb ram ($35) Nabbed another 256 from a friend to cover the onboard vid's memory requirements.
Then I'm going to shove it into the old PII case, it's got an ok CD Burner and a 6gb HD (lol) I'm gonna give him an old 20gig to help out a bit. I'm also buying him a $40 thermaltake psu ($30 on sale)
So it meets Quake IV and FEAR's minimum requirements, and he'll make some minor upgrades, like a 6600GT and another HD and more ram, plus I'll buy a nicer case in a while. Do you guys think it's a good deal? I mean I'll prob overclock the processor after a little while, and he really doesn't use it for anything but internet and play HL2/far cry/doom3/QuakeIV/ and maybe try oblivion and a few others. And, he doesn't care if the GFX settings suck, he just want's to play. So how bout it? I'll be paying half and I convinced him to pay the rest, telling him I'm pretty **** sure it'll work out fine.
Opnions?
I'm thinking of trying to convince him to shell out $10 more for a 2800 sempron... would I see any major performance boosts? Or would it just be a small help for future OCing?
I just checked and it'll be $14 more for a Sempron 2800... sad, but 14 that would be hard to come up w/ so would it be a big boost? One to help w/ games?
Then I'm going to shove it into the old PII case, it's got an ok CD Burner and a 6gb HD (lol) I'm gonna give him an old 20gig to help out a bit. I'm also buying him a $40 thermaltake psu ($30 on sale)
So it meets Quake IV and FEAR's minimum requirements, and he'll make some minor upgrades, like a 6600GT and another HD and more ram, plus I'll buy a nicer case in a while. Do you guys think it's a good deal? I mean I'll prob overclock the processor after a little while, and he really doesn't use it for anything but internet and play HL2/far cry/doom3/QuakeIV/ and maybe try oblivion and a few others. And, he doesn't care if the GFX settings suck, he just want's to play. So how bout it? I'll be paying half and I convinced him to pay the rest, telling him I'm pretty **** sure it'll work out fine.
Opnions?
I'm thinking of trying to convince him to shell out $10 more for a 2800 sempron... would I see any major performance boosts? Or would it just be a small help for future OCing?
I just checked and it'll be $14 more for a Sempron 2800... sad, but 14 that would be hard to come up w/ so would it be a big boost? One to help w/ games?