Which wins for gaming?

[Begley95]

My friend and I have both just ordered new rigs, he paid $225 and I paid $185. Both are refurb units, his from Best Buy and mine from TigerDirect.
 
His rig: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-desktop-computer-8-gb-memory-1000-gb-hard-drive-windows-7-professional-silver/1307217894.p?id=mp1307217894&skuId=1307217894
 
My rig: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9900963&SRCCODE=WEBLET03ORDER&cm_mmc=Email-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET03ORDER-_-Deals&utm_source=EML&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=WEBLET03ORDER&cm_lm=trainiac95@gmail.com

 

I'm interested to hear your opinions on our choices. Thanks in advance!

[kgorringe]

His is better. 

[Mohenjo]

neither bro, there equally as bad for gaming as the other 

[FelixMemoria]

Uhh I guess yours as it seems to actually have a gpu as opposed to his.

[Mr_IICaTz]

His wins. Barley. lol

[Bsmith]

pages dont seem to work for me....

 

but judging on the comments I doubt they are truelly worth it for good gaming

[ShadowCaptain]

Id rather buy a gameboy

[TheRandomness]

Your due to it actually having a GPU although it doesn't state which.. Just says 'ATI Radeon'.

pages dont seem to work for me....

 

but judging on the comments I doubt they are truelly worth it for good gaming

One has a C2Q with no GPU, other has a quad core Xeon with a GPU.

[KemoKa]

His is better, but not by a lot.

 

Neither should be used for high-end gaming.

[ZetZet]

Id rather buy a gameboy

or x360, it's pretty cheap now

[The Toaster]

They both suck imo.

[jtchimesin]

His is better, but not by a lot.

 

Neither should be used for high-end gaming.

or really for gaming at all...

[Atmos]

Both are complete shit for gaming.

Neither have a even moderately good dedicated graphics card, meaning 3d games simply will not run at all.

 

The one from bestbuy is atrocious, running a cpu from 2007, which by itself is not horrid, but the lack of any sort of graphics acceleration hardware means you cannot game on it.

The one from tigerdirect is the worst though, by far. The fact they don't even list what xeon it is, is troubling, meaning its probably older than the core 2 quad, meaning even with a dedicated graphics unit it still would only just be able to run games, it does has a dedicated graphics card, but its such a low power, and frankly aweful card that it cannot run games at all; it's simply meant to allow you to display a still image on webpages and stuff, since the xeon has no integrated graphics. it means you're not going to be able to game at all on this one too.

 

Quite plainly, you can pickup both of those systems online for about $60-80, you both got a shit deal.

[Mohenjo]

Both are complete shit for gaming.

Neither have a dedicated graphics card, meaning 3d games simply will not run at all.

 

The one from bestbuy is atrocious, running a cpu from 2007, which by itself is not horrid, but the lack of any sort of graphics acceleration hardware means you cannot game on it.

The one from tigerdirect is the worst though, by far. The fact they don't even list what xeon it is, is troubling, meaning its probably older than the core 2 quad, meaning even with a dedicated graphics unit it still would only just be able to run games, but since it too has no dedicated graphics card, it means you're not going to be able to game at all on this one too.

 

Quite plainly, you can pickup both of those systems online for about $60-80, you both got a shit deal.

it has ddr2 ram so that xeon is at LEAST as old as the core 2 quad 

[KemoKa]

or really for gaming at all...

I was talking more about if OP and his friend decided to throw cards in their machines. Core 2 Quads handle mid-tier cards rather well. Just not high-end GPUs or SLI'd cards.

[sgtcool]

lol my old PC worth 70€ is better than those two, can run BF4 at 20 fps and Bad company 2 ,ultra 60 fps lol (GTX 550ti) 1080p

 

OP you and your friend got a really really the worst deal possible, those PCs are worth maybe 50€ new ones

[BrightCandle]

Its hard to tell because when the GPU is listed as "ATI Radeon" its impossible to determine what that actually is! The processor in his is a bit faster (they are both Core 2 quads) but then he is on Intel integrated graphics so he isn't going to be playing any games on that at all but equally who knows what the GPU is in yours because its not listed. Unless that ATI Radeon is actually a gamers card you wont get 3D graphics out of either of these machines. If they had time appropriate gaming GPUs then you should be able to play xbox 360 class games on them, something from 2007 should run fine on them but it all hinges on the GPU on yours.

[zackjay21]

they are not for gaming

[Ellis_D]

Looking at the pictures of that tiger direct PC, the GPU looks like it's a single-slot card so I have very low hopes for it.  It's most likely only there to display an image since Xeons don't have integrated GPUs.   Both of those PCs are awful for modern purposes.