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mdkilinc

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Too be honest all of those pc's are not good for much. If you're comfortable with it, tell is a budget and we'll come up with a better pc you can build
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Th_Redman

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I agree totally with the above answers. Neither of those three systems is worth buying, especially for gaming, which I will assume is what you're going to buy a computer for. Build your own or if you're not comfortable doing that, have someone build it for you. You will get "better bang for your buck". Good luck.
 
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mdkilinc

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my budget is around 300 to 400
 
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can you please tell me which pc out of the 3 are better for gaming? Thanks.

 
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Cristi72

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Hello,

Strictly from these three systems, I would go for the first one because of the better processor (graphics wise, they will be roughly the same).
 
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WyomingKnott

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True, and interesting. It was not always true. Back in the olden days, you could almost always build a machine for less than you could buy it. Along came Gateway (really, it started around then, Gateway and Dell being main players) and they bought in bulk and passed on the savings. Really. Buying a thousand or ten thousand hard drives at a time meant that they could make a profit charging me less for the hard drive than I would spend to buy one myself. The margins on large-production-run machines got thin, and the bulk-buying savings to the manufacturer got fat, and building became less of a way to save money on some classes of machines. That's why my wife and daughter are working on a business-line Dell Windows 7 machine instead of something I built. Counting the Windows license, it was cheaper than what I could build.
 
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manofchalk

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The first one is what I would go for.
The 2nd has no redeeming value against the others, the third is a dead end in terms of upgradability and you dont get much in compensation for it (it may just edge out the other two, not sure, in graphics horsepower, but is weaker in CPU especially to the 1st).

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That tends to work when your talking an office machine, there is no way you can build a PC cheaper than Dell where all it has to run Excel, where the minimum performance metric is that it doesn't take 10min to boot and top-tier performance is that it doesn't crash or hang.
Gaming machines are different. The $/performance bell curve is a lot longer, and at ~$400, your right at the start where its near flat, and some hardware puts your further along that curve than others for the same cash. Combine that with the fact that Dell/Origin/HP and whoever are notoriously bad at speccing gaming rigs (I would never recommend an FX-6300 and an R7 240 normally, the CPU is overkill in comparison to the GPU and doesnt matter as much) you can get yourself a superior machine due to better speccing even if your cash doesn't stretch as far in terms of raw hardware.
 
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Onus

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Give serious consideration to the used market, e.g. Craigslist, but there are some caveats. Avoid cheap systems on eBay from system sellers; they'll be spec'ed with the cheapest crap they can fit together, some of which simply won't last or is unfit for purpose (e.g. Logisys PSU-shaped objects). On Craigslist, you may find a guy who built a gaming PC but is giving it up, or built something new, or otherwise is willing to let a perfectly usable machine go for a song, possibly just to be rid of it. Since Craigslist sales are typically completed in person, you can arrange to meet somewhere where a demonstration that the machine is in good working order is possible.
 
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