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InnocentNoobie
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One of my good friends is in need of a new computer.
He lives in Houston, TX
He will be buying in the near future if: (a) he can get a computer between 3-350; and (b) it can play fallout 3
He is not sensitive to FPS performance, and he doesn't care much about a whole lot of eye candy
A budget monitor will work fine for him -- 19'' or similar would be fine
He wants to play Fallout 3; but he is primarily using this for games ranging from WC3 to TF2
The only thing he can reuse is Case, Mouse and Keyboard and HD and Optical drives (I assume it's OK to use a 5 yr old IDE HD as it provides plenty of disk space for him). I'm not sure if he would be successful reusing his old copy of XP.
He won't do anything hardware-demanding other than gaming.
So my question is: Is this even possible. He is hurting financially at the moment, but his old computer is completely done-for. The monitor is dead, and the box is built with parts over 5 years old. I'm not familiar with the most budget/value based components so let me know if it is please -- and thanks!
P.S. I was thinking he could pick up a monitor such as this one for ~$120: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009151
And then throw in an $80 8800GTS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130410
Which leaves $100-$200 for a CPU, MOBO and Ram
He lives in Houston, TX
He will be buying in the near future if: (a) he can get a computer between 3-350; and (b) it can play fallout 3
He is not sensitive to FPS performance, and he doesn't care much about a whole lot of eye candy
A budget monitor will work fine for him -- 19'' or similar would be fine
He wants to play Fallout 3; but he is primarily using this for games ranging from WC3 to TF2
The only thing he can reuse is Case, Mouse and Keyboard and HD and Optical drives (I assume it's OK to use a 5 yr old IDE HD as it provides plenty of disk space for him). I'm not sure if he would be successful reusing his old copy of XP.
He won't do anything hardware-demanding other than gaming.
So my question is: Is this even possible. He is hurting financially at the moment, but his old computer is completely done-for. The monitor is dead, and the box is built with parts over 5 years old. I'm not familiar with the most budget/value based components so let me know if it is please -- and thanks!
P.S. I was thinking he could pick up a monitor such as this one for ~$120: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009151
And then throw in an $80 8800GTS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130410
Which leaves $100-$200 for a CPU, MOBO and Ram
