What do you Jow Forumsuys think about this PC that I am thinking about buying off a friend? I'm not a hardcore gaymur but I do play some games on occasion and I'd like to be able to produce videos in 1080p. Here's the specs of what I'd be getting:
Pic related is the case which I like since it has no Windows. Asking price is $500, is that a rip off or a deal? If it is what should I offer, or pass altogether?
I'd probably pass. The FX6120 is pretty garbage-tier. Maybe for $400, since the rest of the system seems OK.
Have you looked into getting a used 6-core X58 based system? They can usually be had for pretty fucking cheap. Even though the 6 cores are from like 2010, they'll still beat the shit out of faildozer chips.
Alexander Davis
CPU is worth $40 at best.
GPU is worth $150 10 GB DDr is worth $50 500 SSD is worth $40 1 TB HDD is worth $20 Corsair 450 is wroth $20
You could offer $250 and see if it sticks. Otherwise, pass it.
Chase Green
Nah I haven't but maybe I will look into that. That's Intel right? And maybe I'll offer around $400 for this, my friend said the processor isn't that great but everything else is solid and it'd be a good base to upgrade from.
Thanks for the info, do you know if those PCs have a power supply that can support an RX 570? If so they're a much better deal.
Colton Bell
They should be able to push out ~300W total. It will be fine for RX 570, it might need bit of undervolting to tune it perfectly.
Nolan Hughes
This thing costs 250 dollars at most
Anthony Nguyen
For $150 sure. Throw the CPU and mobo out, buy X58 board and Xeon and put that in there. Actually for $500 you'd literally be better off with a 27" 2011 iMac, lmao. That 580 is probably gonna be bottlenecked so hard it won't be faster than a 6970.
Jason Johnson
>X58 If you want to gimp yourself, go ahead. I'd focus more on the recent E3-E5 series Xeons with AVX features. Modern games/emulators are now taking advantage of these and you'll be left out in the dust without such.
Bentley Bell
>ddr3 socket >shit psu >good base to upgrade from Your friend is trying to scam you
Chase Cruz
Or those then.
Alexander Reyes
How about instead he just buys a cheap b450 board and a low end ryzen for cheaper as well as matching his use case. OP was willing to spend 500$ so why get ancient trash. This is coming from someone who used a socket nodded Xeon in a core 2 duo board.
Logan Davis
this, the cpu socket is also dead
Connor Russell
Word, I guess I will tell him I'm not interested. Think I should try to make a lower offer or just pass altogether?
Nolan Moore
Seems really overpriced, really the only things of value in the system is the SSD and GPU. That cpu is pretty garbage, I'd at least look for a X58 based system or even better, something Haswell-bases
I sold a i7-930, 16gb, SLI GTX 460 system for $550 four years ago and thought I got a good deal
Jackson Brown
Worth $300 at best, but mates rates should drop that to $100-150 if not free.
>friend Friends don't let friends use FX series CPUs. They're shit. I'm an AMD fan and am glad ryzen is good and AMD is back in the market but man FX was shit. I replaced my phenom2 with an FX8350, and then that turd with a 2600k and just waited it out for ryzen.
Tldr, part out whatever else, anything else, just not FX series.
William Anderson
Who the fuck charges friends for their old PCs instead of giving it as a gift?
Evan Cox
>FX
stopped reading
Matthew Lopez
I'd pay $250 for that, tops. The only remotely valuable thing in there is the GPU and that's still only about $150 new.
Juan Johnson
>$500 That's overpriced. Where do you live? That price sounds like you live in a 3rd world shithole.
You can build your own for cheap. Start with used components as base for your system.
I just started my project this year. I'm rocking with an i5 [email protected] GHz and 12GB of RAM. I want to add another 4GB soon and maybe a cheap GPU (Something less than 120 $USD) >maybe, because I'm not a PC gaymer but like you, I want to play ocasionally some games.
The computer cost me ~100 USD. I just added a better CPU cooler and bought pic related ( another $100 USD on both)
If understand well, this will be an Ivy one, right?
> E3-1220V2 > E * - * * * * V2
Benjamin Rogers
Yep. Same with the motherboards LGA2011 v0(v1 or not listed). LGA2011 v2(ivy) and LGA2011-3/v3 (haslel)
Christian Flores
Mfw I have a 2500k on a 212 Evo, 750 PSU, 16gb ram, EVGA 670 build gathering dust. There's got to be a better way to put almost obsolete US parts in the hands of the less fortunate. It's going to sit until I get around to recycling it.
Caleb Taylor
>10 GB DDR3 10? is that 2+2+3+3 sticks?
Brody Martinez
Build a machine around it and send out a bunch of e-mails to public schools in low income catchment areas. If you say you want to donate a PC to some kid in need who does well academically they are generally happy to. Family or family of friends can be ways to find someone without access to a decent PC as well.
Dominic Kelly
Best values Xeons for that are E5-2667(6c12t)/2670(8c/16)/2680(8c/16) for Sandy Bridge versions and you can find those for $50-$80.
The gpu, ssd, hdd, psu, and case are the only parts of value and combined probably worth $220 USD.
The cpu and motherboard can be beat with old xeons off ebay for under $100. For an odd amount like 10 GB, I'm guess it's a mismatch of really low binned 2 GB sticks.
Noah Foster
Are there any good/cheap Xeons with Intel Graphics?
Dominic Allen
Interdasting find.
Mason Richardson
it's 4+4+2
Carson Thompson
See if you can get the gpu for like $70 cash.
William James
It has about $200 value
Cpu worth about $20 and GPU worth about $100. SSD worth about $80. Everything else has almost no value.
10gb RAM is fucking retarded because it means the system likely has an odd amount of memory, so no dual channel.
Luke Moore
I was just looking at E5s and X79 boards are so expensive, it actually costs the same to get an X99 board and Haswell-E assuming you don't mind buying DDR4. Unless you have parts already or want 10 or 12 core Xeon, just go Ryzen for the same total price.
Nathaniel Jackson
X99 boards are slightly more expensive than X79 and the v3 xeons are far, far more expensive than v1 or v2. Not to mention the cost of DDR4 vs DDR3 ECC. A 4dimm x79 board is only $75 while a CPU on par with a 2600 is $65. While you can get 16gb of DDR3 ECC for $25. Aka about the same price as a 2600 alone
