Message from @VirtualTools_

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2020-12-17 04:06:05 UTC  

What should my price range be for a good desktop computer

2020-12-17 04:06:33 UTC  

What do you want to do with it?

2020-12-17 04:07:21 UTC  

No matter what you want to do with it though, pay for an SSD over a hard drive.

2020-12-17 04:08:01 UTC  

If you was near me I could give you a decent one. It has a 3ed gen i5 which I know is kind of dated but still 4 cores. It also supports up to 32gb of ddr3 ram

2020-12-17 04:09:25 UTC  

Gaming I reckon

2020-12-17 04:09:38 UTC  

You will probably want a computer with at least 8 gb of RAM, less then that is constrained with modern Windows and will make things snappier because more can be cashed in RAM.

2020-12-17 04:10:02 UTC  

Gaming you may want to go up to 16 GB depending on what game you are playing.

2020-12-17 04:10:40 UTC  

Ok

2020-12-17 04:11:23 UTC  

Do you have some examples of what kind of games you play? Also, what resolution monitor do you have or plan to have? That will help you from over paying on GPU.

2020-12-17 04:11:35 UTC  

Yeah how much would you want for it though

2020-12-17 04:12:26 UTC  

Umm not really I just need a pc for a few other things and I don't want to buy another console but enjoy gaming

2020-12-17 04:14:04 UTC  

@SomeSouthernGuy it would be free I have 12 desktops and 4 laptops

2020-12-17 04:14:23 UTC  

If you are casual gamer with mainly online multiplayer, you may be able to get by with a desktop with an AMD Ryzen APU. AMD CPUs have great price to performance for compute and the built in GPU is based off their high end GPUS. It should be good for casual gaming and then later down the road if you want more GPU power you can add a dedicated GPU. If you get an AMD GPU it would actually use your built in GPU and the dedicated to give extra performance.

2020-12-17 04:15:25 UTC  

Its a no brainer, i got a 240gb kingston a400 for 25 bucks, best upgrade i ever made

2020-12-17 04:15:36 UTC  

Too bad we live so far from each

2020-12-17 04:15:58 UTC  

Ok I'll check that out

2020-12-17 04:15:58 UTC  

Boots in less than 5 seconds even on an 8 year old cpu

2020-12-17 04:16:04 UTC  

Yeah I think someone said you moved

2020-12-17 04:16:41 UTC  

Maybe my mind was else where

2020-12-17 04:16:51 UTC  

Adding an SSD to my grandfather's Vista desktop and upgrading to Windows 10 gave that system a new life for an extra 3 years till the computer finally just died.

2020-12-17 04:17:10 UTC  

Even the most ancient of systems are infinitly more responsive with an ssd

2020-12-17 04:17:13 UTC  

No I still live in the Anderson county and Knox county area

2020-12-17 04:17:59 UTC  

Oh I might be in Knoxville in a couple days if I can get my truck fixed

2020-12-17 04:18:09 UTC  

I'm going to McKays

2020-12-17 04:18:40 UTC  

If you can get a desktop for cheap, you can put a nice GPU in it and have a quality gaming rig for quite a few years, particularly if your comparing to a console.

2020-12-17 04:19:45 UTC  

Even if a pc can;t play the latest games, theres a boundless backlog of older games that are still amazing too!

2020-12-17 04:20:06 UTC  

I live near a computer recycling center so I get stuff for free. I scored a 4GB 1050ti once and it still works

2020-12-17 04:21:12 UTC  

I don't know any computer recycling places near me, i mostly rely on ebay and going to thrift stores in big cities, they have the best stuff

2020-12-17 04:21:30 UTC  

Even if i have to drive for a few hours to get there

2020-12-17 04:21:34 UTC  

That's lucky

2020-12-17 04:21:35 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/766007595881463879/788984210119458866/20201216_232046.jpg

2020-12-17 04:22:32 UTC  

My main pc is in peices. I need to reassemble it

2020-12-17 04:23:10 UTC  

Looks expensive

2020-12-17 04:23:30 UTC  

So you are using one of your extras right now?

2020-12-17 04:23:30 UTC  

It was free and it works

2020-12-17 04:24:20 UTC  

Yeah my spare has a 3rd gen i7 and 32gb of ddr3 ram

2020-12-17 04:24:56 UTC  

I had alot more computers but I keep trading for more ram.

2020-12-17 04:25:39 UTC  

I just like building PC's

2020-12-17 04:26:00 UTC  

I usually turn my spare computers into nodes for my computer cluster

2020-12-17 04:26:02 UTC  

i got 16gbs of ddr3 1600 + lots of random BS agp cards and dialup modems for 6 bucks

2020-12-17 04:26:59 UTC  

and a 200gb hard drive that for some bizzare reason had a installation of windows 98 on it, but i just DBAN'd it and used it as an external