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Gaming computer for cheap
I am interested in purchasing a new computer for the purpose of gaming. Games im intersted in are half life 2 and Everquest 2. Id like to spend the minimum amount of money required, but id like to buy a system that is able to support these games and run them smoothly, reliably, and in good graphics. does anyone have any advice on a good cheap set up?
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MY friend runs off an emachine and can as far as i know play halflife graphics on medium. The comp is 200 bucks and a graphcs card is round another 200 thats the least you can spend. I reccomend a little higher up in the chain though, get a better computer, if you plan to keep playing games for a while on your comp, get a nice graphics card. I recommend and x700 or something along those lines, it runs off pci-e and i like the ati brand cards.
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My brother is hooked on counterstrike games so it doesn't matter what computer you get as long as its fairly quick what matters is the harddrive get one of the ATI ones i can't remember the number but most of them r pretty reliable.Here r some ektra tips the quicker the computer the better your chances of killing someone on counterstrike,get computer headphones the one with the speaker and the big headphones and I guarentee you you will be able to hear people sneaking up on you so this is my advice I'll try to give you some more from my brother but if you don't want any that's fine!Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!
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You can get a lot more for your money if you build it your self or get a freind to build it for you. Get a nice unit asus mother board 512or more of ram a nice 3.0-3.4 GHz processor!! um.. a good internet bandwith is important half life likes the 3Mb a sec for your internet! 128-256 Mb video card! nice monitor. If you do it right i build on about 3 months ago with all that for 1500 dollars and i did i speed test and it came out awsome!!
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Yeah, I found this computer on PCMall with an Athlon 3200 for 500 bucks, check it: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
Although, you might want to buy a better graphics card. It does have AGP, BTW.
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hey i know where you can get one the thrift store or your mama. just to tell you i was being sarcastic but seriously.
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Evercrack 2 is fairly graphics intensive. For that game to look nice, you really should have a fairly beefy video card (newer GForce model or mid-to-high end Radeon). I'm not sure what sort of proc you'll need. I am not all that familiar with the needed req's for Half Life 2. In all honesty, go to the websites for both games and look up the minimum and recommended system requirements for them and then see how tough it might be to get a system to meet those specs.
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