we're building Mike a gaming PC (recycled thread)

[noiseredux]

what what? $20 is sick. Mike needs Win7 - 8 makes no sense to him - and pretty understandably.

From where I stand, hardest parts to find "spare" will be mobo, CPU and case.

Whoever has a case might be the guy to build, as it might be dumb to ship a case and build then ship to him.

RAM-wise, I'd think Mike needs 4GB to start.

Benchmark - Ultra Street Fighter 4 comes out next month. This box needs to run that.

[Duane Dibbley]

I think that iMac is probably this one: http://support.apple.com/kb/sp576

There haven't been any 21" iMacs. That one was the first 21.5"; prior to that, there was a 20".

Low End Mac has a list of used Mac prices, but the site isn't working right now. Based on a quick Google search, $450 looks like a good price for that model.

[TSTR]

So now that I've thought about it some more, I'm not sure if any of the stuff I have will really be useful. It's kinda old. Here's what I got anyway:

BioStar MCP6P M2+ mobo (AM2+ slot, 1 PCI-E x16, 2 DDR2 slots)
Some old AGP Radeon
Creative Live 5.1 soundcard
40 GB IDE drive
Iomega USB external CD writer
Generic USB mouse (kinda small)
CrossFire GPU bridge
Cables out the ass

[Aramonde]

What does Mike think about this plan?

[mjmjr25]

He thinks Brad was making a half joke and it sorta took off as a possible real maybe thing and he's just sitting back thinking, "...wait, am I getting a gaming pc out of this?"

[wip3outguy7]

I'm looking for a possible gaming PC - could this do the trick (again, based on such little info).

No. At least not really for anything more recent than the year it was built.

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory

This is going to be your achillies heel.

You can push that 9400M pretty far, but you'll find yourself creating a custom profile for every goddamned game in the NVIDIA control panel just to hit 30fps. This is in addition to dancing in low resolution land.

[noiseredux]

He thinks Brad was making a half joke and it sorta took off as a possible real maybe thing and he's just sitting back thinking, "...wait, am I getting a gaming pc out of this?"

pretty spot-on.

Like I said, I feel like the case, mobo and CPU will be the hardest pieces to find anyone's got something good lying around spare. So perhaps we should talk about getting you picked out a barebones combo deal from NewEgg and then seeing what we all have around that we can throw into it for you. Nothing too extreme. Just a simple starter rig. In fact, you might want to go w/ a smaller case like Erik did. I'm not so sure you'd even use a disc-drive anyway. I'd think $200-ish for the barebones pieces, and then we can pitch one some stuff (I think I have spare working GPU, maybe Erik has a Win7 to spare, etc). Have it all shipped to me or Fast and one of us will put it together for you.

Ultra SF4 comes out in June I believe. Would love for you to have a setup that's able to play it by then...

[flex wood]

Lets get him an evga hardon. I could put it together, I just really want to build in one of those cases since I'm planning on going with a smaller form factor in the next couple of months and that case is on my list of choices.

Edit that's not how you spell the name of that case but I refuse to change it.

[noiseredux]

you want to give him a hardon?

Seriously, no idea what case you're referring to - and totally scared to google it.

[flex wood]

The computer case evga released last year or maybe it was earlier this year. It looks awesome. Evga hadron.