- Feb 5, 2015
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Hello all,
New here but have been reading for a while. I have a ton of old junk PCs laying around the house and want to Frankenstein one together if possible, but with the fewest amount of $$ I can manage.
First, what I am looking to do.
I am mainly looking for something to play newer video games on that will look decent and more importantly for me sound good too. The most important game I am looking at is arma 3. I don't need super graphics or incredible fps, just looking for something that will look ok on my TV, which is what I will be using for a monitor. 55" Samsung 1080p.
Second I want to use it for streaming video to my TV. I have been using a laptop to stream movies and music to my ps3 and it has worked well so far but I want to make the laptop more portable.
What I have now...my newest equipment that I have that isnt in a working PC is a MSI g31m3-l v2 motherboard with an old e2200 CPU along with 4 gigs of ddr2 ram. Video is also old and won't be compatible with arma 3. I got plenty of hard drive space laying around unused.
I will need a new power supply, new video card, and new CPU. I would like to use the current motherboard and ram if at all possible, once again to save as much cash as I can.
Will also need a new wireless mouse and keyboard that will have decent range and good for gaming but doesn't have to be anything serious. Sound card is also a big thing. If I can run multichannel audio thru the HDMI of the video card that would be fine, if not I would need a car with at least a toslink connection.
Most important is keeping it cheap. I just want something that can run it now while I save up some to build a very good gaming htpc, then give this one to one of my kids.
New here but have been reading for a while. I have a ton of old junk PCs laying around the house and want to Frankenstein one together if possible, but with the fewest amount of $$ I can manage.
First, what I am looking to do.
I am mainly looking for something to play newer video games on that will look decent and more importantly for me sound good too. The most important game I am looking at is arma 3. I don't need super graphics or incredible fps, just looking for something that will look ok on my TV, which is what I will be using for a monitor. 55" Samsung 1080p.
Second I want to use it for streaming video to my TV. I have been using a laptop to stream movies and music to my ps3 and it has worked well so far but I want to make the laptop more portable.
What I have now...my newest equipment that I have that isnt in a working PC is a MSI g31m3-l v2 motherboard with an old e2200 CPU along with 4 gigs of ddr2 ram. Video is also old and won't be compatible with arma 3. I got plenty of hard drive space laying around unused.
I will need a new power supply, new video card, and new CPU. I would like to use the current motherboard and ram if at all possible, once again to save as much cash as I can.
Will also need a new wireless mouse and keyboard that will have decent range and good for gaming but doesn't have to be anything serious. Sound card is also a big thing. If I can run multichannel audio thru the HDMI of the video card that would be fine, if not I would need a car with at least a toslink connection.
Most important is keeping it cheap. I just want something that can run it now while I save up some to build a very good gaming htpc, then give this one to one of my kids.
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