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Good value?

  • 20-09-2017 5:48pm
    #1
    Hollister11
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    Hi I'm looking at a desktop (no monitor) on ebay.

    The specs are

    Intel core i5 2300
    12gb DDR3 Ram
    500GB HDD

    Price: €130

    Is this good value?


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  • #2
    tech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭tech


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    Hi I'm looking at a desktop (no monitor) on ebay.

    The specs are

    Intel core i5 2300
    12gb DDR3 Ram
    500GB HDD

    Price: €130

    Is this good value?
    Yes


  • #3
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    tech wrote: »
    Yes

    What would performance be like?


  • #4
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    For what?

    General browsing and stuff would be sound, it would probably be a little slow for development but still okay.

    Editing or gaming would be a no imo


  • #5
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Digital Solitude wrote: »
    For what?

    General browsing and stuff would be sound, it would probably be a little slow for development but still okay.

    Editing or gaming would be a no imo

    It would be a development machine.

    Would need to run Atom well, and cloud ide cloud9. Also would need to stream Udemy courses.


  • #6
    Digital Solitude
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    Past my area of knowledge then so, I'm basing it off our college machines which are i5 2400

    Tbh, I'd say it'll be sound, especially at €130 odd.

    If you find it too slow, an i7 3770 would set you back another €100 or so and would definitely cover you. Not sure how cost effective that is though, but €250 for an i7 machine with 12gb RAM sounds good to me.


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  • #7
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Cheers. I can always sell if it doesn't suit my needs.

    I'm not much of a hardware person.


  • #8
    TerrorFirmer
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    Good price and still a decent performer. Editing would be fine and even gaming would be perfectly fine in 90%+ of titles with a capable card.

    The i7-3770 may not work, some of those machines are Q67 chipset (I think that's the one) which do not support Ivybridge. But worst case scenario you could definitely upgrade it to an i7-2600 which is still a reasonably good CPU.

    Ram's also limited to 1333mhz which may or may not influence certain tasks, broadly speaking it wouldn't be too much of an issue though.


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