Broke guy trying to get more into PC's and Gaming

[congcatepa8651]

Ok guys long time lurker first time poster, I'm in college and I have no shame in telling you I am broke and I mean BROKE BROKE, to a degree we ramen noodles 3 nights a week, my parents try and help best they can but they are on SSI with a fixed income so... anyways I came across this site and I tried searching on here for it and it seems no one has discussed it or bashed it or anything.

 

They claim you can connect through basically anything and have a full spec PC with some decent specs for a pretty low cost per month. So I had a few questions for you experts

 

1. Do you think its legit? or should I try it and pay with like a pre paid card?

2. Can they actually do what they are claiming

3. Will I be technically using their internet or my own when I browse, because we have Wifi here in the dorm 

 

I never used anything but windows and Mac so I would likely choose the windows package

 

https://cloudcorevm.com/

 

or on the OTHER hand if you think this is not the route to go can you maybe spec out a superrrr cheap PC for me?

 

Thanks guys

[AbydosOne]

2 minutes ago, congcatepa8651 said:

They claim you can connect through basically anything and have a full spec PC with some decent specs for a pretty low cost per month.

They don't have GPUs, so you can't game on them. If you had a non-Windows machine, but needed a Windows machine temporarily, these would be an option, but these won't run games.

 

3 minutes ago, congcatepa8651 said:

or on the OTHER hand if you think this is not the route to go can you maybe spec out a superrrr cheap PC for me?

At the moment, there's not really a such thing as a cheap PC (depending on the games you want to play, I suppose). There's a shortage on pretty much everything.

[8-Bit Ninja]

What you want is something like Google Stadia 

[Hyrogenes]

5 minutes ago, congcatepa8651 said:

Ok guys long time lurker first time poster, I'm in college and I have no shame in telling you I am broke and I mean BROKE BROKE, to a degree we ramen noodles 3 nights a week, my parents try and help best they can but they are on SSI with a fixed income so... anyways I came across this site and I tried searching on here for it and it seems no one has discussed it or bashed it or anything.

 

They claim you can connect through basically anything and have a full spec PC with some decent specs for a pretty low cost per month. So I had a few questions for you experts

 

1. Do you think its legit? or should I try it and pay with like a pre paid card?

2. Can they actually do what they are claiming

3. Will I be technically using their internet or my own when I browse, because we have Wifi here in the dorm 

 

I never used anything but windows and Mac so I would likely choose the windows package

 

https://cloudcorevm.com/

 

or on the OTHER hand if you think this is not the route to go can you maybe spec out a superrrr cheap PC for me?

 

Thanks guys

You could try geforce now...

[congcatepa8651]

at this point I dont even have a PC for school work or anything, so even non gaming is it worth it? 

 

I know with these prices OMG, when the heck will they drop? when BTC does? 

[Dutch_Master]

Common sense: their goal is to make as much money from you as they possibly can, hoping they can force you to pay extortionist prices once they've lured you in deep enough you can't go back w/o serious issues (data loss, etc).

 

As for cheap gaming PC, here's one LTT did earlier:

 

As noted previously, given current circumstances: YMMV

[Hyrogenes]

Just now, congcatepa8651 said:

at this point I dont even have a PC for school work or anything, so even non gaming is it worth it? 

 

I know with these prices OMG, when the heck will they drop? when BTC does? 

Bitcoin is basically dead. Its mostly etherium

[Tan3l6]

1 minute ago, Hyrogenes said:

Bitcoin is basically dead. Its mostly etherium

Rather bitcoin is a muppet... played by ETH and others...

[Dutch_Master]

Just now, Hyrogenes said:

Bitcoin is basically dead

So that's why it's hitting record levels frequently then

[Hyrogenes]

1 minute ago, Dutch_Master said:

So that's why it's hitting record levels frequently then

record levels of both price and difficulty to mine

[congcatepa8651]

Well thats even worse right? ETH is GPU mined which is bad for us gamers isnt it? BTC basically can't even be mined with GPU can it? I mean it CAN but your electric bill would not like it lol

[AbydosOne]

1 minute ago, congcatepa8651 said:

at this point I dont even have a PC for school work or anything, so even non gaming is it worth it? 

There really isn't anything you can't do on a mobile device (which I assume you're using) that you can on a desktop aside from high-performance gaming these days. Save your pesos for when we're out of this hardware drought.

[congcatepa8651]

I have an OLD OLD OLD laptop that came with Vista on it lol  but also they state they can do like Pi's and stuff, I can hook it up to my TV Via HDMI and kinda use that 

[Moonzy]

Depends on how much budget you have and what are your needs for a PC

 

APU or Intel's CPU with iGPU is a viable option

[congcatepa8651]

OK no laughing at my Vista laptop lol

[congcatepa8651]

$3400G looks cool I have used a system with it before and it played Doom Eternal well but they are like $200 these days lol

[Entropy.]

3 minutes ago, congcatepa8651 said:

$3400G looks cool I have used a system with it before and it played Doom Eternal well but they are like $200 these days lol

I very highly doubt you'd be able to run doom eternal well if at all. The minimum spec for doom eternal requires a gtxx970, gtx 1060, or gtx 1650/ r9 290

[Middcore]

1 minute ago, Brok3n But who cares? said:

I very highly doubt you'd be able to run doom eternal well if at all. The minimum spec for doom eternal requires a gtxx970, gtx 1060, or gtx 1650/ r9 290

 

Eh, it ain't bad if you're OK with low/medium settings. 

 

[Stugotsv10]

I hear ya before this price wars and scalpers mess happened I used to build PC's for the less fortunate (locally) and since this I have not been able too and I miss it, felt good to give back.

 

As far as the company you linked one of us should try em out lol  Prices seem to smoke Azure and places like that, who knows if the quality matches Azure tho. 

 

I'd be the guinea pig, try it for $45 for the weaker package lol

[Fasauceome]

17 minutes ago, congcatepa8651 said:

$3400G looks cool I have used a system with it before and it played Doom Eternal well but they are like $200 these days lol

Make sure you use the quote button or we won't see your responses

 

Check out local recyclers or warehouses. Contact schools and government offices, they have repositories of outdated computers that have been replaced. It's possible to find a cheap or even free (if you're super lucky) system that doesn't completely suck. Possibly a 4th gen i6 or something similar.

[congcatepa8651]

14 minutes ago, Stugotsv10 said:

I hear ya before this price wars and scalpers mess happened I used to build PC's for the less fortunate (locally) and since this I have not been able too and I miss it, felt good to give back.

 

As far as the company you linked one of us should try em out lol  Prices seem to smoke Azure and places like that, who knows if the quality matches Azure tho. 

 

I'd be the guinea pig, try it for $45 for the weaker package lol

Wanna try it and let me know? lol

[Stugotsv10]

2 minutes ago, congcatepa8651 said:

Wanna try it and let me know? lol

if everyone is dead serious interested and wants to know how it is... I'll take one for the team lol

[Dutch_Master]

You should be able to get one of these for under 100USD

https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=976

 

Add PSU and RAM, some no-name case if you must, usual peripherals and away you go!

 

OK, not exactly (Ry)ZEN, but still better then nothing!

[SAVE-12-HK]

check out techyescity, youtuber

he turn old pc into gaming pc and resell for profit

[Amias]

1 hour ago, congcatepa8651 said:

at this point I dont even have a PC for school work or anything, so even non gaming is it worth it? 

 

I know with these prices OMG, when the heck will they drop? when BTC does? 

 

Yeah bro. If you're eating raman 3 times a day, stay away from PC gaming. You need to get a job.

 

When you've got a job, pick up an old used PC for cheap, and get use to the massive pre-2010 catalogue of games for a while. Many of those communities are still alive and thriving.

 

Then when you've actually got disposable income, start investing more heavily.