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Cheapest PC ever, just for playing old games and some internet browsing.
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19-02-2011 11:16pm#1
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A noble cause :cool::D Don't forget stuff like Homeworld, Morrowind, Half Life, Ground Control, Kohan 2, NWN, Battleground 2, MW4 Mercenaries, Tachyon, Starlancer, Tribes Vengeance... :P
While the cheapest way to handle this would be to buy an old, cheap gaming PC from just after their time, it won't be very energy-efficient or upgradeable. Decent modern integrated graphics are just as powerful as 6600GTs etc. so a very cheap and simple AMD X3 machine would give you enough upgradeability to throw in a cheap HD5570 further down the line if they decided to move on to HL2, Portal, Oblivion, World In Conflict, SupCom, DoW and the other modern classics!
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A noble cause :cool::D Don't forget stuff like Homeworld, Morrowind, Half Life, Ground Control, Kohan 2, NWN, Battleground 2, MW4 Mercenaries, Tachyon, Starlancer, Tribes Vengeance... :P
While the cheapest way to handle this would be to buy an old, cheap gaming PC from just after their time, it won't be very energy-efficient or upgradeable. Decent modern integrated graphics are just as powerful as 6600GTs etc. so a very cheap and simple AMD X3 machine would give you enough upgradeability to throw in a cheap HD5570 further down the line if they decided to move on to HL2, Portal, Oblivion, World In Conflict, SupCom, DoW and the other modern classics!
Yep
Who knows, I plan to upgrade my MoBo and CPU (+ cooler) this year, so if I can't finding something nice and cheap, I could just buy a case, PSU and some RAM and they'd be set
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I cant't believe I forgot to put Deus Ex in that list!
I don't think you can unlock anything on the 45nm Athlon X2s, they're based on the same process as the 45nm Sempron, the X3 and X4 Athlons are based on a different piece of silicon (the same one as the 45nm X2/3/4 Phenoms actually, L3 cache and all!).
IMHO a really cheap X3, while pricier, has better lasting power. Not a huge issue though The mobo should be okay, HD3000 has no HD acceleration though, so this won't be great for HD content. Its gaming power should be a little less than a 6600GT, so it can just about handle Oblivion, which was damn hard on GPUs back in the day. Not as good as a HD4250 though! Try and keep the gaming around the 720p mark as higher resolutions (especially 1080p!) wil probably force you to get a discrete card! Also pray that the onboard sound works, as those VIA chips are prone to EMI and might not work, forcing you to buy a sound card too! :eek: 0 -
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I cant't believe I forgot to put Deus Ex in that list!
I don't think you can unlock anything on the 45nm Athlon X2s, they're based on the same process as the 45nm Sempron, the X3 and X4 Athlons are based on a different piece of silicon (the same one as the 45nm X2/3/4 Phenoms actually, L3 cache and all!).
IMHO a really cheap X3, while pricier, has better lasting power. Not a huge issue though The mobo should be okay, HD3000 has no HD acceleration though, so this won't be great for HD content. Its gaming power should be a little less than a 6600GT, so it can just about handle Oblivion, which was damn hard on GPUs back in the day. Try and keep the gaming around the 720p mark as higher resolutions (especially 1080p!) wil probably force you to get a discrete card! :eek:
1280x720 is the max resolution I was going to have it at anyway
I may just drop in some of my PC's left-over parts after I upgrade it, instead of saving up for the Cheapass PC and then getting the upgrade.0 -
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Probably the best game of the era, an almost-but-not-quite-sandbox shooter with almost-but-not-quite-RPGesque progression with multiple routes through almost everything and tons of ways around each problem :cool: Also the only game I really liked stealth in 0
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