$100 Gaming PC - What would this run?
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Amd sempron 1.8ghz socket 462
asus a7n8x-e deluxe mobo
1gig ram
250gb Harddisk
pny Geforce fx5900 ddr 128mb
windows xp sp2
I was able to run halflife2, doom3, call of duty(uo xpack & 2), stalker SoC, fear, WoW, starcraft, ut04, and battlefield2 with no problems.
Amd sempron 1.8ghz socket 462
asus a7n8x-e deluxe mobo
1gig ram
250gb Harddisk
pny Geforce fx5900 ddr 128mb
windows xp sp2
I was able to run halflife2, doom3, call of duty(uo xpack & 2), stalker SoC, fear, WoW, starcraft, ut04, and battlefield2 with no problems.
Hmmm well I managed to run Fallout 3 with a 64mb graphics card (it was... playable but I wouldn't reccommend it(the 1gb of RAM acting as virtual was probably what allowed this)) so you might be able to get a decent framerate on low settings.
Not so sure about the processor and you can never have too much RAM.
Not so sure about the processor and you can never have too much RAM.
For $100 you can play on all the gamer tears that 'some types of people' may shed.
You can't run Assassins Creed off a $100 computer tho. Nor Oblivion, nor Fallout 3, nor Mass Effect 2, nor Crysis, nor any popular game that has been released in the last few years.
Fanboys may say other wise, but they are full of lies.
You can play awesome cheap games like frogger, and civ 3, and mario roms if you have owned the game before. Don't pirate stuff, it's really low rent.
You said:
So a Pentium 4 3GHz with HyperThreading, 1GB of RAM, and a GeForce 6800 256MB GPU comes in at $100
I say:
You can't run real games with this.
You can't run Assassins Creed off a $100 computer tho. Nor Oblivion, nor Fallout 3, nor Mass Effect 2, nor Crysis, nor any popular game that has been released in the last few years.
Fanboys may say other wise, but they are full of lies.
You can play awesome cheap games like frogger, and civ 3, and mario roms if you have owned the game before. Don't pirate stuff, it's really low rent.
You said:
So a Pentium 4 3GHz with HyperThreading, 1GB of RAM, and a GeForce 6800 256MB GPU comes in at $100
I say:
You can't run real games with this.
You have options, my friend. My little eee 900 has a whimpy celeron (900mhz), a measly 512mb ram, I upped the HDD to a 16gig, and my games are installed on an 8gig SDHC class 6 in a usb converter I got on the cheap at dealextreme. I popped in a wireless mouse, and have been able to play all kinds of nice classics on it, including Max Payne, Warcraft 3, and I just started a fresh game of Arcanum on it, and it's running Windows 7.
If you're willing to really think outside the box, you can squeeze some goodness out of a cheapy machine.
The original price was $134 (refurb), the upped HDD (it's a solid state drive, not cheap at the time), the mouse, and the sdhc all brought it up to just about $180. I hear I can even play Guild Wars on this thing with some fine tuning. Not too shabby.
Oh, and Game Booster kinda helps... not greatly, but every inch counts.
If you're willing to really think outside the box, you can squeeze some goodness out of a cheapy machine.
The original price was $134 (refurb), the upped HDD (it's a solid state drive, not cheap at the time), the mouse, and the sdhc all brought it up to just about $180. I hear I can even play Guild Wars on this thing with some fine tuning. Not too shabby.
Oh, and Game Booster kinda helps... not greatly, but every inch counts.
If you want to play games on your PC, I suggest you save up and do it properly instead of buying something cheap now and screwing yourself over in the future, when that $100 could have been put towards something better.
Speaking from experience at extreme-low end computing (my old jalopy was a 2.4 Ghz Pentium 3, with an upgraded ATi card... I think it was the 9600, with 1 Gb of RAM), I will say that you're scraping the barrel in terms of The Orange Box. TF2 will probably be dropping frame rates, and I wouldn't recommend the Half Life 2 series. Portal, on the hand, is beatable, with some lags when the portals are in play. Now, I realise that my old jalopy is significantly worse than what you're looking at, but I doubt anything released last year will run.
Hypocrasy detected: unless you've dumped the ROMs yourself, it's piracy, plain and simple.NotSoNimble said:
What normally comes with an XP license? I've always had to buy a copy of Windows when I built a computer.migo said:
Ohhhhhhhh. I see now.migo said:
I still think you should save some more and build one, because a computer like that isn't going to run much. I'll tell you right now that I had a computer at about that level when Doom 3 came out and it wouldn't run.
Why would you even want to update your PC with just $100? Seriously, for three times that you can get a motherboard, CPU, GPU and probably power unit.
But for anything older than 2006, the PC is laughable. Fallout 3? You're kidding me, right? Doom 3? Maybe on low or medium. Don't expect miracles.
Seriously, buying a PC for $100 is like buying a bicycle with one wheel - sure, cheaper, and you CAN use it. But what's the point?
But for anything older than 2006, the PC is laughable. Fallout 3? You're kidding me, right? Doom 3? Maybe on low or medium. Don't expect miracles.
Seriously, buying a PC for $100 is like buying a bicycle with one wheel - sure, cheaper, and you CAN use it. But what's the point?
Hypocrisy. That's one. Two, he already owns the rom. I can freely play Megaman Battle Network games on my PC, because I already have them on GBA. Or I can play Pokemon games on PC, because I have both on GBC and NDS. Or I can and will play PS2 games on PC, because... it's easier to look at walkthroughs and browse the net, since the room with PS2 has only a small laptop, and I would have to move away from the game to do anything. Plus, on emulators you can do stuff like stop the game, or save when you can't because there's a storm coming and you don't want your hour-long boss fight to go to dust.Delusibeta said: