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Person A has $750. What should he do? Buy a new prebuilt pc, build a pc, buy a laptop, buy an old pc and add on to it or buy an oem and add on to it??? What is your answer??

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5 minutes ago, virtualgamer425 said:

Person A has $750. What should he do? Buy a new prebuilt pc, build a pc, buy a laptop, buy an old pc and add on to it or buy an oem and add on to it??? What is your answer??

I'm just going to assume it's going to be a gaming PC. Buy a old OEM Workstation PC with a Xeon and add a GPU to it.

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3 minutes ago, ConspiracyTheory said:

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Has "Person A" stolen the $750?

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On 8/23/2018 at 10:30 AM, Origami Cactus said:

What does the person A right now uses for a pc?

A old dell laptop with windows vista

 

On 8/23/2018 at 10:41 AM, FloRolf said:

Has "Person A" stolen the $750?

Nope!! why 

 

On 8/23/2018 at 10:34 AM, Firewrath9 said:

what does person A want to do?

You have to help him decide

 

On 8/23/2018 at 10:39 AM, jmoles said:

Invest in Humus. 

YEah broo

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Person A should put it in the bank and not spend it. 

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2 hours ago, fpo said:

Person A should put it in the bank and not spend it. 

Person A should put it in MY bank. xD

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On 8/23/2018 at 11:28 AM, virtualgamer425 said:

What should he do?

@virtualgamer425 He should slowly buy PC parts and over time build a gaming PC. If done patiently, $750 can build a $1000 gaming PC. Especially if person A has years experience with eBay. Insane deals on PC parts(especially GPU's and CPU's) come and go daily on eBay. And I'm talking brand new parts.

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10 hours ago, A Random Dude said:

@virtualgamer425 He should slowly buy PC parts and over time build a gaming PC. If done patiently, $750 can build a $1000 gaming PC. Especially if person A has years experience with eBay. Insane deals on PC parts(especially GPU's and CPU's) come and go daily on eBay. And I'm talking brand new parts.

This is a great idea! 

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In my experience, Investing on a moderately fine I5 and relying on its IGPU for a while until he rises the money for a beast GPU would be the best option. Intel IGPUs are quite capable this times, I manage myself with an I3 7100 for fortnite at low settings, but it reaches 60 fps no sweat! but, as with the other responses, it depends, for CAD work is better to have beast IPCs so investing on a nicer CPU is better on that scenario.

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Actually, that depends on the person's choice or What is his requirement? Nowadays there are so many options of PC's and Laptops available in the market under $750. For example, you can buy ASUS VivoBook F510UA. It's an amazing laptop with amazing configuration in this price range.

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Person A should donate it to Person B who only has an electronic potato and no computer.

I volunteer to become Person B

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Why declare a variable if its the only one? hehehe.

Anyway depends on what the use is for the computer on what you buy.

notebook nice and portable. but less performance and/or higher prices.

prebuilt is nice stable (most of the time) but can be hard to upgrade if smalle form factor.

Building yourself might be cheapest but can give some issues, if you havent done it before.

Old PC's are probably the cheapest option but can have issues upgrading.

When i ask for more specs, don't expect me to know the answer!
I'm just helping YOU to help YOURSELF!
(The more info you give the easier it is for others to help you out!)

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On 25/08/2018 at 6:33 AM, virtualgamer425 said:

 

You have to help him decide

 

Uhm use it to read TXT documents and give person A and icecream since he can use his old Dell notebook?

When i ask for more specs, don't expect me to know the answer!
I'm just helping YOU to help YOURSELF!
(The more info you give the easier it is for others to help you out!)

Not willing to capitulate to the ignorance of the masses!

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id buy another motorbike probably

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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On 8/26/2018 at 12:20 PM, A Random Dude said:

@virtualgamer425 He should slowly buy PC parts and over time build a gaming PC. If done patiently, $750 can build a $1000 gaming PC. Especially if person A has years experience with eBay. Insane deals on PC parts(especially GPU's and CPU's) come and go daily on eBay. And I'm talking brand new parts.

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On 27/8/2018 at 7:58 AM, DXTN said:

In my experience, Investing on a moderately fine I5 and relying on its IGPU for a while until he rises the money for a beast GPU would be the best option. Intel IGPUs are quite capable this times, I manage myself with an I3 7100 for fortnite at low settings, but it reaches 60 fps no sweat! but, as with the other responses, it depends, for CAD work is better to have beast IPCs so investing on a nicer CPU is better on that scenario.

Intel IGPUs are pretty capable, mate there's this thing called Ryzen APU's, gonna BLOW-YOUR-MIND.

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All persons (A through Z) should Paypal me that $750.

 

 

Serious answer:  Buy used and upgrade, or build your own with new components and a good used GPU.

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