New buy

[jeboots]

I'm buying a custom computer from a friend. It's an AMD quad-core 3.2 phenom x4 955, 8gig ram, Western Digital Caviar Black 500gig hard drive. 3 RAID5 drives totaling 2tb, a Radeon 5670. Selling for $400.
If I buy I will upgrade video card to HIS IceQ X Turbo Radeon HD 7850.
Is this a good buy for gaming/graphic design?

 

[amuffin]

Great deal!

 

[nekulturny]

Is the Phenom II 955 a C3 or C2 stepping? You're better off with the C3. Its not a horrible buy no, I personally would try to talk him into $250 for it though, just to see how low you can get him lol, yea I know thats cheap!

But assuming we're talking an AM3/AM3+ board, strapping a 7850 on it would work out pretty well.

Just to give you reference, a Phenom II 965 build today with a 7850, 8 gigs of DDR3 on a decent AM3 board would set you back about $700-$800. With Windows7 though, figure in another $100. Thats why I'd try to talk him down on the price, since you're paying him 400 and going to be putting another $250 into it and its a used system. Maybe I'm just too much of a miser lol.

 

[jeboots]

Looks like I'm getting (maybe) a "HIS IceQ H787Q2G2M Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition" card.
AND
"ASUS VH236H Black 23" 2ms Full HD Widescreen LCD Monitor w/ Speakers 300 cd/m2 20000 :1 (ASCR)"