On a $500 budget for a new desktop, recommendations please
I haven't bought a new computer in like 8 years and i'm a bit out of the loop on pricing.
Here are my considerations:
-Light gaming (I mostly play league of legends, heroes of the storm, hearthstone, and starcraft 2). Fairly low graphic intensity
-Will be doing a good deal of work from home. This is mostly spread sheets and word processing.
-Watching movies/netflix
-My memory storage requirements are pretty low, I had under 100g of memory used on my last computer.
-Longevity, I would like a computer that will last at least 6 years. So probably no refurbished
-Price
Any recommendations would be great.
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This is my best find (and probably not a good one since things labeled gaming tend to inflate the cost in my experience):
iBUYPOWER Gamer Power WA550B Desktop PC:
WA550B iBUYPOWER Black Gamer Power PC with 8GB Memory Key Features and Benefits:
AMD Quad-Core PC FX-4300 Processor with 1TB Hard Drive
3.80GHz, 4MB L2 Cache
8GB DDR3 SDRAM system memory (expandable to 16GB)
Gives you the power to handle most power-hungry applications and tons of multimedia work
1TB SATA hard drive
Store 666,000 photos, 285,000 songs or 526 hours of HD video and more
24x Double-Layer DVD+/-R/RW drive
Watch movies, and read and write CDs and DVDs in multiple formats
10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
Connect to a broadband modem or wired broadband router with wired Ethernet via the iBUYPOWER Desktop PC including Windows 8.1 Home Premium (Monitor Not Included)
NVIDIA GeForce GT730 2GB Graphics
With 2GB dedicated graphics memory
I haven't bought a new computer in like 8 years and i'm a bit out of the loop on pricing.
Here are my considerations:
-Light gaming (I mostly play league of legends, heroes of the storm, hearthstone, and starcraft 2). Fairly low graphic intensity
-Will be doing a good deal of work from home. This is mostly spread sheets and word processing.
-Watching movies/netflix
-My memory storage requirements are pretty low, I had under 100g of memory used on my last computer.
-Longevity, I would like a computer that will last at least 6 years. So probably no refurbished
-Price
Any recommendations would be great.
------------------------------------
This is my best find (and probably not a good one since things labeled gaming tend to inflate the cost in my experience):
iBUYPOWER Gamer Power WA550B Desktop PC:
WA550B iBUYPOWER Black Gamer Power PC with 8GB Memory Key Features and Benefits:
AMD Quad-Core PC FX-4300 Processor with 1TB Hard Drive
3.80GHz, 4MB L2 Cache
8GB DDR3 SDRAM system memory (expandable to 16GB)
Gives you the power to handle most power-hungry applications and tons of multimedia work
1TB SATA hard drive
Store 666,000 photos, 285,000 songs or 526 hours of HD video and more
24x Double-Layer DVD+/-R/RW drive
Watch movies, and read and write CDs and DVDs in multiple formats
10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
Connect to a broadband modem or wired broadband router with wired Ethernet via the iBUYPOWER Desktop PC including Windows 8.1 Home Premium (Monitor Not Included)
NVIDIA GeForce GT730 2GB Graphics
With 2GB dedicated graphics memory