Well josh there are a few ways you can go about this.
1. ebay or something like it.
A lot of people testers and the like will be dumping their boxes from
yesteryear for a gamer that will be as soon as they are out of date.
However you may have to replace bits that break my uncle got a high
performance one for 200 bucks but it was loaded with viruses and
failed components.
The basics were there and we got it going, its not the best but it works.
3. off lease business.
A lot of the businesses lease their systems or get leased systems for
a year or 2, they then flog those off when they expire.
You may be able to pick up an i5 duel or something but its all random.
Ofcause you generally get 3 months warenty expandable to 1 year only,
and you will get an old os, right now thats 7 xp or vista with an
upgrade to 8 maybe.
They generally have smaller hard drives and stuff and standard hardware.
4, sale, sometimes shops have sales, you may be able to buy one and
customise that.
5 old computer.
or if someone is getting rid of their clapped out box you could have it.
Most of the time the box no longer meets their needs or has a broken part.
In the previous box that was the file server, the fan was broke and
its tv and video cards but everything else worked.
Before that, they just didn't meet our needs anymore.
Another one we had had a busted fan, lots and lots of malware and a
busted power module.
and a dead ram slot that was the clincher.
that and we had replaced the fan 3 times or so.
It may cost more than you think, however if you can spair 200-500
bucks you can get an offlease.
I doubt for what you want you can just pick up a gaming box.
an i7 or i5 quad is your best bet, a 120gb solid state and a 1 tb
hard drive combo, a dvd drive, 8gb ram, and I guess windows 8.1 64
bit is the base not to mention games, and stuff.
My advise is if you just want games get a console, now the x box 1
is out the 360s or older playstations are cheaper.
2. building one.
my brother and I plan to build
At 02:30 a.m. 2/10/2014, you wrote:
hi
I have a bit of a situation, but I think I have 1 to 3 years room
here but I figured might as well ask. My 7 and a half year old
sighted son is getting into games. but the games he wants to play he
would need a desktop with 8gigs ram at least 500gig hard drive and a
core i7 with good graphics card at least 1 gb graphics. My issue is
since I'm divorced, on SSI, and only get paid $20 or $30 once in a
great while for fixing a neighbor's computer here and there I wonder
how will I ever afford to buy him such a machine? I mean I could
wait till he's 10 years old or so but I live in a small town and
things don't really change around here. If my marriage would have
stayed together I'd have the money to buy him a powerful computer.
Do you think it would be more economical to wait till he's 9 or 10
and then by stuff from newegg and help him build the desktop from scratch?
Josh
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