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1 hour ago, Meowster said:

So my Dad has been constantly begging me to build him a PC. He said "Oh I love to see you building PCs, love to see the parts go together'' I need to find something for him because trust me, my Dad does not forget about anything (including begging about a pc) He works from home, all he does is write emails and eventually play a game of virtual chess. I need some suggestions on some fairly inexpensive parts (could be something from 2007 onwards) His computer at the moment is a Compaq Presario V5000 with ATI graphics that runs windows XP. That thing has a 1.5GHz Celeron M CPU

A used Dell Optiplex with a core i5 should work fine.

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So my Dad has been constantly begging me to build him a PC. He said "Oh I love to see you building PCs, love to see the parts go together'' I need to find something for him because trust me, my Dad does not forget about anything (including begging about a pc) He works from home, all he does is write emails and eventually play a game of virtual chess. I need some suggestions on some fairly inexpensive parts (could be something from 2007 onwards) His computer at the moment is a Compaq Presario V5000 with ATI graphics that runs windows XP. That thing has a 1.5GHz Celeron M CPU

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1 hour ago, Meowster said:

So my Dad has been constantly begging me to build him a PC. He said "Oh I love to see you building PCs, love to see the parts go together'' I need to find something for him because trust me, my Dad does not forget about anything (including begging about a pc) He works from home, all he does is write emails and eventually play a game of virtual chess. I need some suggestions on some fairly inexpensive parts (could be something from 2007 onwards) His computer at the moment is a Compaq Presario V5000 with ATI graphics that runs windows XP. That thing has a 1.5GHz Celeron M CPU

A used Dell Optiplex with a core i5 should work fine.

Gaming With a 4:3 CRT

System specs below

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X with a Noctua NH-U9S cooler 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Aorus M (Because it was cheap)
RAM: 32GB (4 x 8GB) Corsair Vengance LPX 3200Mhz CL16
GPU: EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC Blower Card
HDD: 7200RPM TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1TB, External HDD: 5400RPM 2TB WD My Passport
SSD: 1tb Samsung 970 evo m.2 nvme
PSU: Corsair CX650M
Displays: ViewSonic VA2012WB LCD 1680x1050p @ 75Hz
Gateway VX920 CRT: 1600x1200@75Hz, 1200x900@100Hz, 960x720@125Hz, 800x600@140Hz
Gateway VX900 CRT: 1600x1200@75Hz, 1200x900@100Hz, 960x720@120Hz (Can be pushed to 175Hz)
 
Keyboard: Thermaltake eSPORTS MEKA PRO with Cherry MX Red switches
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19 minutes ago, MadAnt250 said:

A used Dell Optiplex with a core i5 should work fine.

Found one coincidently at goodwill literally 2 minutes ago, bought one for like 10 bucks. Thanks

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Found one coincidently at goodwill literally 2 minutes ago, bought one for like 10 bucks. Thanks

Nice.

Gaming With a 4:3 CRT

System specs below

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X with a Noctua NH-U9S cooler 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Aorus M (Because it was cheap)
RAM: 32GB (4 x 8GB) Corsair Vengance LPX 3200Mhz CL16
GPU: EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC Blower Card
HDD: 7200RPM TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1TB, External HDD: 5400RPM 2TB WD My Passport
SSD: 1tb Samsung 970 evo m.2 nvme
PSU: Corsair CX650M
Displays: ViewSonic VA2012WB LCD 1680x1050p @ 75Hz
Gateway VX920 CRT: 1600x1200@75Hz, 1200x900@100Hz, 960x720@125Hz, 800x600@140Hz
Gateway VX900 CRT: 1600x1200@75Hz, 1200x900@100Hz, 960x720@120Hz (Can be pushed to 175Hz)
 
Keyboard: Thermaltake eSPORTS MEKA PRO with Cherry MX Red switches
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Just now, MadAnt250 said:

Nice.

Also, next to the PC I found it's original never opened peripherals. That was a pretty good deal for it.

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7 hours ago, Meowster said:

Found one coincidently at goodwill literally 2 minutes ago, bought one for like 10 bucks. Thanks

Fucking steal, if I even *find* computers at my local thrift stores it's $150 for a C2D.

 

 

Sick find.

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SPECS:

CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X Motherboard: MSI B450-A Pro Max RAM: 32GB I forget GPU: MSI Vega 56 Storage: 256GB NVMe boot, 512GB Samsung 850 Pro, 1TB WD Blue SSD, 1TB WD Blue HDD PSU: Inwin P85 850w Case: Fractal Design Define C Cooling: Stock for CPU, be quiet! case fans, Morpheus Vega w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 2 for GPU Monitor: 3x Thinkvision P24Q on a Steelcase Eyesite triple monitor stand Mouse: Logitech MX Master 3 Keyboard: Focus FK-9000 (heavily modded) Mousepad: Aliexpress cat special Headphones:  Sennheiser HD598SE and Sony Linkbuds

 

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On 3/16/2020 at 1:02 AM, kelvinhall05 said:

Fucking steal, if I even *find* computers at my local thrift stores it's $150 for a C2D.

 

 

Sick find.

Yeah my thrift stores barely ever do computers, if I find one its like magic. Still ccan't believe I found that

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