Buying a used gaming computer

[Someguy_has_returned]

hey guys i m getting a demo computer from a gaming pc store and i wanna know if i m getting a good deal so if you know your computers....

it looks pretty good its gets 120fps on halflife2 and has a pretty high 3d mark score

amd 64 3200+ 1mb cache (scket 754 2000mhx fsb (extreme edition chip)
zalman 600gram pure coper 5000 rpm cpu fan
1 gb ocz pc3200 400mhz ram
ati x800 xt platinum video card with thermaltake giant 3 1.1kg aluminum/copper heat sink and 100000 rpm blower

480w power suplly
4 speed front fan controlor
front audio connections
metel case with window
8usb 2.0 ports -2 front 6 back
front and back fire wire ports
multio collor neon light
7.1 channal sourond sound
dvd burner
9 in one card reader
anolog and digital temperature displays
80 gb sata hard drive



its just the computer itself with no accessories and it going to cost me 1400 canadian... or about 950 american

[Spike]

Looks OK, it'd cost around £700 just to build in the UK depending what motherboard/PSU it has.

That should be 200fsb not 2000 and even though I haven't read "Geek Weekly" recently I'm sure only Intel sell Extreme Edition CPU's, but there again computer shop salesmen are usually thick as pigshit (in PCWorld anyway).

It'll be a noisy fucker with those fans. 100000rpm?

[Matt]

Looks good to me! Go for it! (although I haven't read geek weekly in a long time either)

[Bobo]

Looks like a good deal. The price goes up a bit if You need to buy a new monitor, but it's still a good deal.

[Valk]

I used to be a gamer. But my PC was always too crappy for those games.
I've never had a game that worked 100%, besides maybe Pacman.
So I gave up gaming.
Well I have to say, I've never been happier. :D

[Bobo]

Well I have to say, I've never been happier. :D
Hmm... are You sure?

[Valk]

No not really...but I can't put a downer on every thread can't I. There are limits. :wink:

[Bobo]

True. :lol: :wink:

[Baseballer8]

Use that money that you would use on the computer and get yourself a gym membership or a road bike and get out and about. This will be much more beneficial to your body in the long run.

[groove champion]

None of that spec makes a difference. Windows cant HACK IT. .... ! :lol:



:wink:

[Spike]

Who the fuck writes a game using the Windows API?

[groove champion]

ok maybe i shld of said its a shame windows won't be able to make use of that spec?
Windows sure in hell screws my games up, i have no faith in it i guess

[Someguy_has_returned]

baseballer, ya don't have have to worry about me, i m a avid runner and competitively box, i'm just trying this gaming thing. alot of my friends are gamers and i get shat on alot for a having a shit pc at lan parties (even though i could kick everyone of their asses...)

[Baseballer8]

Ok I see now, I guess the reason I said that was at one point in my life I got so into those games my health and quality of life suffered. I too run bike and weight lift now and have been game free for a while now. Now if I can just get away from alcohol at college, aw to hell with that you only live once :cool

[ArTee63]

have been game free for a while now.


Kinda like kicking a crack habit, huh? :lol:

[Bobo]

My first computer was a Commodore 128 (I was ~12 when I bought it if I remember correctly), and after that I had an Amiga 500. When I was about 17y.o. I noticed there are girls and a life outside my room too, and I sold the damn machine. Had some happy party years after that, and I bought my first PC when I was 26 years old (and married). Now I must take some distance to this thing and get out to play with the girls again. It seems to be a never ending cycle... :lol:

[Shane_Bos]

I manage to juggle everything somehow. I play Football Manager 2005 online with my mate quite a bit, BUT, Im active, usually playing football once a week, gym now twice a week and cycle when i feel like it. Ive got a part time job which is 2-3 days a week. Ive got a full time job with my bird although shes on holiday for 2 months currently. Ive just finished college and im going to Uni soon, and i go clubbing or generally out with friends quite a bit too. I find things just tend to slip into place. Theres no real hastle here :D

Im just one of these take life as it comes, kind of guys and it works for me. I guess im just lucky.

[Bobo]

All we have is this one life, with no guarantees of anything after death... that's a fact we should try to remember every day. If we're not happy with our lives, we must do something for it at once! All of us can get happy in one way or another, we just have to find our own way to live through this amazing experience called life.

[ArTee63]

All we have is this one life

A bit off topic but I've always believed that we go through many lives, many journies. What we learn this time around will help us on the next trip. No way to prove it. I guess I'll have to wait till I'm dead, huh?

[Bobo]

I hope You're right. This must be my first life because I knew absolutely nothing about nothing when I was born, had to learn it all later...

[Valk]

If it is true, I must've been a very sick person in my past live. A child molester or serial killer maybe. :lol: :x

[Bobo]

"Valk the ripper"... :lol: ... ... .... :roll: ..... :shock:

[Valk]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[zwmusic]

A bit off topic but I've always believed that we go through many lives, many journies. What we learn this time around will help us on the next trip. No way to prove it. I guess I'll have to wait till I'm dead, huh?

Do we keep our dick size when we come back in the next life? I don't want to start all over in the next one.

[ArTee63]

You could be a woman and have a great rack. :wink:

[zwmusic]

Hmmm... yeah, but I don't think I would like to be a woman. But if I was to be, I wouldn't settle for anything less. :P

[Bobo]

I'd like to test some other planet out, this one is a mess...

[ArTee63]

Maybe Dagobah or Tatooine, perhaps. I hear Naboo, Mobus and Adumar are very nice as well. Or pick any other one from here (http://www.supershadow.com/starwars/map.html) . :P

[Bobo]

Dagobah sounds "familiar":

- Location: On the fringes of the galaxy, in the Degobah system and the Sluis sector along the far reaches of the Outer Rim

- Indigenous Species: Knobby white spiders, gnarltrees, swamp slugs, dragonsnakes, jubba birds and bogwings

- Climate: Humid, with frequent rainfall and heavy mists

- Terrain: Swamps and bayous

- Of Interest: Cave of Evil and Yoda's Home

http://massassi.yavin4.com/sw_img/e6dego3.jpg

:lol:

[ArTee63]

I thought you would enjoy that place. :D

Just watch out for all the bugs when you go running. :lol:

[Bobo]

:lol: I will... trust me. :D

[zwmusic]

Gee!! Imagine the bugs on such place... monsters probably. You're up for a good run there Bobo. :lol:

[Bobo]

Whatever keeps me going... :lol: