Need opinions

Eagles99

Eagles99

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2006

Underworld

All The Ectos Are [GoNe]

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Is this computer worth $600? Will it run future games that are coming out soon? (GW2, etc)

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/sys/870126869.html

Thanks

Lord Sojar

Lord Sojar

The Fallen One

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oblivion

Irrelevant

Mo/Me

Absolutely not. Build your own for sure. You can get a lot more bang for your buck that way. Building a PC isn't hard at all.

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

It may or may not be worth $600. They don't say what the power supply or CPU or OS is. It uses a mATX case, which would limit future upgrades.

It's basically what is known as a "bare bones" system - having no hard drive, no mouse, no keyboard. You should compare prices of other bare bones units and/or the the total cost of that system after you add what's missing.

Two 8600GT video cards would give you good performance, but there are newer, better ways to go.

It sounds a lot like some guy who's just trying to sell off some of his old stuff he upgraded from - he never says it's "new".

Bottom line - buy it only if you know what you're doing. (Which I assume you don't )

snaek

snaek

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

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It's definitely not, lol.

Like quaker said...its probably not new parts, and even if it was...you're paying extra 'service' fees to get it custom built.

It would be much cheaper to just build it yourself.


BTW, I don't know why he doesn't list full specs, but would rather highlight the "wings of destruction" and "insane amount of glow".

Honestly, if a gamer is more concerned bout the looks of his PC
than the performance, that is just scary.

If you are considering purchasing it, at minimum, ask for full tech specs on the system.


<font color="red">Rahja Edit: Please use good English... this post has been translated using standard English. </font>

Aera

Aera

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

Galactic President Superstar Mc [awsm]

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1: Videocard sucks
2: It doesn't even say what processor
3: Alienware is ugly

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

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