Hello! I know this has been asked countless times, sorry for that. From what I've seen this is slightly different. So I'm still young, I don't have an income and I'd like to build a better PC that can be added to over time. I'm in South Africa so things are a little more expensive, but I do have family in Ireland that can bring over stuff if needs be. The money that I plan to use is mainly birthday money and stuff at the moment I have just over €100, and maybe a little help from the parents but it'd be nothing over €40-50. So what I was thinking is mainly second-hand stuff, has anyone any experience of buying and using it? Does anyone from South Africa know of any good outlets for second hand parts? And is it worth buying second hand or is new stuff better?
I mainly do simulation gaming and a little bit of photo editing, if I'm right that'd mean a good CPU. I have a good monitor (1920x1080 Samsung), an optical drive and plenty HDD space, but that'd be it. I could maybe salvage the CPU. So for a start off point what should I buy first, and what components should I save up for in the future? I don't plan on doing a one off build, but rather buy one thing, then save up, buy the next, then the next and so on.
Just for interest sake, here's my specifications at the moment:
Dell Dimension C521
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 @ 2.3Ghz
RAM (DDR2): 1x 2gb and 2x 512mb so total of 3GB RAM
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3400 with 256mb
Mainboard: 0HY175 (Specs here)
HDD: 500gb internal and 500gb external
OS: Win 7 Ultimate, but I didn't build the PC so I don't know if I could recover this.
My power supply is 200watt.
I mainly do simulation gaming and a little bit of photo editing, if I'm right that'd mean a good CPU. I have a good monitor (1920x1080 Samsung), an optical drive and plenty HDD space, but that'd be it. I could maybe salvage the CPU. So for a start off point what should I buy first, and what components should I save up for in the future? I don't plan on doing a one off build, but rather buy one thing, then save up, buy the next, then the next and so on.
Just for interest sake, here's my specifications at the moment:
Dell Dimension C521
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 @ 2.3Ghz
RAM (DDR2): 1x 2gb and 2x 512mb so total of 3GB RAM
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3400 with 256mb
Mainboard: 0HY175 (Specs here)
HDD: 500gb internal and 500gb external
OS: Win 7 Ultimate, but I didn't build the PC so I don't know if I could recover this.
My power supply is 200watt.
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