Girlfriend wants a pc but I'm broke, help!

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WoWPlayerHorde

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Ok so I'm building my own pc and my girlfriend wants her own, we aren't good at sharing, I only have 250 bucks to drop into it and I barely have that.. She does play low graphically demanding games ( league of legends ) so far I found this for 250 which comes with a mouse and keyboard, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883265289, I only have 250 so the price point is 250 or less, preferably right on 250 so it's a little bit more advanced then a calculator.. Am I getting the best bang for my buck or could I do better with my 250 dollars.. This is planned to be used on runescape, league of legends, and world of warcraft on low to med settings. Thanks
 
The cpu in the machine I posted is still good eventhough it's pretty old. It competes with the low end i3s which is good enough for light gaming especially on a budget. The pentium 4 rig posted before is in my opinion too bad for gaming. Sure it's cheap but trust me ypu would regret getting it. A core 2 duo and 4gb is the way to go on your budget, so if you don't like the rig I posted look for something with these specs. Just remember you have to add a 6670 to whatever tou get because oem pcs dont usually come with good gpus.
 
SpringWater said:
The cpu in the machine I posted is still good eventhough it's pretty old. It competes with the low end i3s which is good enough for light gaming especially on a budget.
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An i3 2100 is a little faster than an E8400 (see here http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/289?vs=56), though the E8400 is still a decent processor for 'mild gaming' or if you are on a very strict budget and can't afford anything newer.

Stay away from Pentium 4s. They're rubbish. Take it from somebody who lived with several for years.
 
Spirit a few years ago the E8400 was the 'darling' of pc gaming, and will in no way be bottled by any medium GPU. The point here is just be warned, there is no upgrade potential unlike the 1155 socket.
 
I built a portable PC for my brother tailored specifically to League of Legends.
It was:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz
Corsair ValueRAM DDR2-667MHz 2x2GB
AMD HD 5770 1GB
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB

Could run it fluently on high settings.

LoL is not that demanding really
 
Okedokey said:
Spirit a few years ago the E8400 was the 'darling' of pc gaming, and will in no way be bottled by any medium GPU. The point here is just be warned, there is no upgrade potential unlike the 1155 socket.
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Yeah, I'm aware that it used to be to gaming what the 2500K, 3570K and 4670K are to gaming today.

I'm also aware that the E8400 is getting old and games are utilizing more cores, but you are right, it shouldn't too much of a bottleneck, if really a significant one at all, yet.
 
I've run on League on an old laptop with a 1.66GHz Dual Core, 2GB of RAM and some junky integrated video card. It run at like 25 fps on low settings. You can probably get a machine that can play it alright considering that laptop probably isn't' even worth 75 bucks anymore.
 
Denther said:
I've run on League on an old laptop with a 1.66GHz Dual Core, 2GB of RAM and some junky integrated video card. It run at like 25 fps on low settings. You can probably get a machine that can play it alright considering that laptop probably isn't' even worth 75 bucks anymore.
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Ah right. Going by this then, the E8400 setup should be fine. :good:
 
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