Craigslist PC - Worth it?

[julesrules124]

Looking for a pc on craigslist and found this. Seems like a pretty good deal but would it be good enough to play GTA and Rust at high or max settings? I'd prefer Intel but I'm so desperate at this point haha.

https://potsdam.craigslist.org/sys/5936849689.html

 

[Herc08]

You can get it, but that AMD chip is a dead end, and has no room for improvement. Also the CPU is a few years old. Also, that GPU is not that great. And I'm not sure about BF1 running at MAX on that screen.

AMD builds are not the best. How muc his it?

 

[julesrules124]

It's $600, just dropped from $650

 

[Herc08]

You could get it and upgrade it later.

 

[julesrules124]

Wouldn't that just be really expensive unless I upgrade from amd to amd instead of Intel? I mean I'd have to replace the mobo and cpu, but I could probably keep the gpu and upgrade that at a later time. I might contact the seller and see if he'll drop it a bit more.

 

[ingtar33]

yeah, that pc won't play GTAV very well, to play GTAV smoothly you'd need to overclock the stuffing out of that cpu, and looking at the picture of that pc, he's got a junk motherboard and stock cooler. that cpu will never overclock.

 

[guanyu210379]

Try to take that PC with max USD400.
Or simply skip that PC.

 

[Rogue Leader]

I wouldn't pay $600 for that. You could build a faster starting point off of a Skylake i3 for cheaper. Yeah you may end up spending a bit more for a monitor, but you also won't be on a slower dead end platform.

 

[Herc08]

I would say save up another $200, and you can have a decent pc to play games. He is using those "marketing" terms sellers use to make his PC stand out. I know because I sell a lot of things on CL.

 

[manddy123]

You can get it, but that AMD chip is a dead end, and has no room for improvement. Also the CPU is a few years old. Also, that GPU is not that great. And I'm not sure about BF1 running at MAX on that screen.

AMD builds are not the best. How muc his it?

Not really sure why this comment got downvoted.

I wouldn't pay $600 for that machine.
It's outdated and, as said, with no possible upgrades in the long term.

Even a i3-6100 or some new Kaby Pentiums should be better and pairing it up with a GTX 1060 should be a better idea then the hotter r9 390.

For a whole new build, It would possibly be a bit more expensive , but at least you would proof yourself from a dead-end machine.

 

[julesrules124]

Thanks for all the input! I already have a build with an i3 6100 on PCPP so I'll probably just stick with that.

 

[cryoburner]

Yeah, in my opinion, it's probably not worth it. You could likely build a similar-performing system with brand-new parts for not a whole lot more, or potentially less if we ignore the monitor and peripherals. The 390 is a rather power-hungry graphics card, and the current generation 480 and 1060 provide comparable performance with significantly-lower power consumption and heat generation. The processor has a lot of cores, but most current games won't make use of that many cores anyway, and its single-threaded performance could be beat by many lower-end parts. There's also the fact that AMD will be launching their new, much-improved Ryzen processors soon, and those will require a different motherboard, so it may be limited in terms of future upgrades.