trs96
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Saw this listing while browsing Ebay, looking for something else. Sounds like a reasonable price for new gaming PC with hardware prices being what they are. Should have at least a 1650 Super in there, right ? A tenth gen or newer Intel Core i5 for sure ? With all that rainbow RGB lighting, it has to be a real gaming PC, doesn't it ? In reality, it's not a gaming PC, unless you consider gaming playing Solitaire and Hearts online. Also, it's over priced by about $600 or more when you compare it to the cost of a regular, 11 year old refurbished PC.
As you scroll down the listing and see what the detailed specs are, you soon find what a blatant ripoff this is.
Has a 2nd gen Intel i5-2400 that was new back in 2011 ! A GTX 650 1GB graphics card and a bare minimum for gaming, 8GB of DDR3 1333 MHz ram.
I really doubt the games FPS ratings even come close to what they suggest at those settings. Can you run any of the three games below with just 1GB of Vram ? IDK because I don't play Windows games.
B75 LGA 1155 Motherboard
Video Card NVIDIA Gforce GTX 650 1GB
Here's the difference between a used 4GB RX 560 and the much older 1GB GTX 650. You can play games like Fortnite and GTA V with an RX560 and have a decent frame rate without stuttering.
So don't fall for these "new" RGB gaming builds that are really charging you about $150 per new RGB lighted fan. Everything but the case and fans is likely not new, just excess, refurbished hardware pulled from obsolete machines that are being recycled. You could buy a new M1 Mac mini that would game better than this, in some titles, for under $700. An 8th gen Intel Mini would do far better than even that. You could install Windows 10 on it and upgrade the ram to 16GB yourself.
Here's a 2018 mini on Ebay with a quad core i3 and 16GB of ram. Sells for $390 or $333 less than the $723 refurb gaming PC in a shiny new case. You can still use an eGPU with these if you want to game. Would be way better than the ancient and terribly slow GTX 650 1GB. Better yet, the mini runs Ventura with no hacking required.
As you scroll down the listing and see what the detailed specs are, you soon find what a blatant ripoff this is.
Has a 2nd gen Intel i5-2400 that was new back in 2011 ! A GTX 650 1GB graphics card and a bare minimum for gaming, 8GB of DDR3 1333 MHz ram.
I really doubt the games FPS ratings even come close to what they suggest at those settings. Can you run any of the three games below with just 1GB of Vram ? IDK because I don't play Windows games.
- 4 RGB Fan Gaming PC Desktop Computer
- Runs Fortnite average 100 FPS on Low Settings and 60 FPS on medium settings. Runs Pubg average 30 FPS on low settings. Runs GTA5 average 30 FPS.
- Core i5-2400 3.10 Ghz
- GTX 650 1GB Video Card With DVI, HDMI and VGA outputs.
- 1 Year Warranty.
B75 LGA 1155 Motherboard
Video Card NVIDIA Gforce GTX 650 1GB
Here's the difference between a used 4GB RX 560 and the much older 1GB GTX 650. You can play games like Fortnite and GTA V with an RX560 and have a decent frame rate without stuttering.
So don't fall for these "new" RGB gaming builds that are really charging you about $150 per new RGB lighted fan. Everything but the case and fans is likely not new, just excess, refurbished hardware pulled from obsolete machines that are being recycled. You could buy a new M1 Mac mini that would game better than this, in some titles, for under $700. An 8th gen Intel Mini would do far better than even that. You could install Windows 10 on it and upgrade the ram to 16GB yourself.
Here's a 2018 mini on Ebay with a quad core i3 and 16GB of ram. Sells for $390 or $333 less than the $723 refurb gaming PC in a shiny new case. You can still use an eGPU with these if you want to game. Would be way better than the ancient and terribly slow GTX 650 1GB. Better yet, the mini runs Ventura with no hacking required.
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