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Buying Used and Upgrading Help

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Lt Cobra

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I'm curious as whether this rig can handle games at low or medium resolution. I'm also going to be doing some recording, but I know the requirements for that. I'm sort of new to all this, any feedback will help. I don't mind buying the cheap one now and start working on its upgrades, I just need suggestions as how much upgrades costs will run me. I'm willing to put in $300 in upgrades into the PC.

Quite frankly I prefer to buy now, seeing how bids can spike a price at the last minute.

The Bidding Game (1 day of bidding, currently at $155):
Cooler Master Elite 430 (Mid-sized Tower Case)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 AM3 3.4 Ghz 512MB (CPU)
ASUS GeForce GTX 550ti Graphics Card (GPU)
ASUS M5A97 (Motherboard)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (CPU Cooler Fan)
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 (RAM)
LITE-ON DVD Burner - Bulk Black SATA Model (DVD-R)
WD Blue 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gbs (Internal Hard Drive)
Cooler Master 450W Bronze (Power Supply)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit (Operating System)

The Cheap Pony ($185 no questions asked):
System Details
Make: HP
Model: xw8200
Processor type: Xeon Performance Processor
Processor Speed: 3.4GHz
Memory: 4GB (DDR2)
Hard Disk Drive: 250GB
HD Type: SATA
Optical Media: DVD-RW (DVD Burner)
Video Card: nVIDIA Graphics Video Card
Video port(s): VGA / DVI
Sound: Integrated HD audio
Chassis / Case: Tower
Case Orientation: Dual Orientation
Other details:
8 USB (2 Front)
1 Serial
1 Parallel
On Board Sound Card
On Board 10/100 Network Card
Operating system: Windows XP Pro w/ COA
Antivirus: Installed and activated (online update enabled)
Restore Media: N/A

My only two questions are:
*How much in upgrades will I need to play upcoming popular game titles?
*Will it be an ideal PC to do basic game footage/editing?


1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming along with some video footage for it.

2) What's your budget? $300ish in upgrades, I can handle some shipping tax. If I can get it a little less that'd be great.

3) Which country do you live in? Tucson, Arizona, USA

4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? Graphics card and power supply for the HP among other things.

5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? As many parts as I can, but the Hp's Graphics card may need an upgrade.

6) Will you be overclocking? I don't plan to, no.

7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it?
23" Screen Size
1920 x 1080 Resolution
300 Brightness
1,000:1 Typical Contrast Ratio
10,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio
160°/160° Viewing Angle
5ms Response Time

8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Building

9) What features do you need in a motherboard? Something that will allow me to buy a bigger GPU.

10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? Yes Windows 7 64-bit.
 
"The Cheap Pony" is a Pentium 4 based machine. You do not want that for any type of gaming or video editing. I would pay a max of about $50 for that system.
 
Neither are good. It' s more cost effective to just build a new system from sractch than to upgrade any of those PCs to modern standards.
 
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