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Which is a better deal?

Viper87227

Viper87227

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My friend is moving in his own place, and will no longer have a computer. He is looking for something that will play games decent, but its more for the web and chatting with his GF. I have two different offers and its a toss up as to which would be better at this point.

Offer 1: $500 shipped

Intel P4 M mobile processor 1.7 @ 2.8Ghz 512k cache, runs @ 2.8Ghz 24/7 on only 1.575 volts
Zalman CNPS7000-cu Heatsink/Fan
Abit BH-7 i845PE motherboard
2x256 Geil Ultra Platinum PC3500
80gb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm Hard Drive
Gainward Geforce4 ti4200 64mb *mint* condition
Soundblaster Live! sound card/ or onboard sound if you prefer
Brand New Codegen Case Black w/420w power supply
Lite-On 52x32x52x CDRW Black
Black Floppy
Low Noise Panaflo fans
Windows 98 legit copy with certificate and boot disk not installed on any computer


Offer 2: $300 shipped

1800+ amd xp
256mb pc2700
30gb 7200rpm hd
52x cdrw
52x cdrom
floppy drive
32mb tnt 2 video agp
onboard lan/sound
56k modem
Usb 2.0 and Firewire onboard
Atx case wtih 400watt psu
Xp pro preinstalled


THe second one woudl need upgrading, probably another stick of ram and a Ti4200, which woudl still leave room for something else if need be. What turns me on to that one is the XP Pro, however the first one shows some killer OCing abilities. No. also comes with a modem which is nice...as hes to poor to afford high speed. So, with offer 1 vs offer 2 (with another stick of ram and a ti4200) which do you guys think woudl perform better? Would it be a huge difference? Enough to justify the extra $100?
 
Qwertyman said:
definately A) just do to more ram, and a better graphics card.
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and by A you would mean?

lol, your post changed but it doesnt say you edited it. The thing is, I wont be putting ina new card or ram, he doesnt need it. He is shooting for $500 and tharts where that one is. He is not huge into games, doenst have the time for em really. I wil give him like BF1942 and COD, but hes not playing anything really advanced, and I doubt hes a real graphics whore anyways.
 
A Pentium M 1.7GHz runs @ 2.8GHz??? I don't think so. That's either a typo or he's full of shit.

Offer 1 "sounds" like a better deal even if the guy meant it runs at 1.8GHz. But my BS meter is starting to spike so I don't know if I'd trust this guy or not.
 
Astral Abyss said:
A Pentium M 1.7GHz runs @ 2.8GHz??? I don't think so. That's either a typo or he's full of shit.

Offer 1 "sounds" like a better deal even if the guy meant it runs at 1.8GHz. But my BS meter is starting to spike so I don't know if I'd trust this guy or not.
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I myself thought that was high too, but ive only dealt with the AMD side of things, so I dunno how well mobile P4's overclock.
 
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