Seems ok deal, right?
If you want an 11 year old processor that was designed to be used with DDR3. I guess it depends on how much newer of a processor you might get
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This is entirely overpriced for the dated hardware you’d end up receiving. It’s not worth the gamble. In order to upgrade anything in the machine you’d be looking at a new motherboard and PSU since dell uses their own proprietary boards and PSUs that don’t work with any other brand.
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What should I expect to pay for modern components?
Must have a SSD + 1TB HD.
I would seriously reconsider purchasing this. Not only is it refurbished, it’s very outdated parts made by a company reputable for poor design quality when it comes to consumer GAMING pc’s specifically. That being said if you just want something that can browse the web and play like… stardew valley or a SNES emulator this should work fine, but you could get a much better deal just asking for helping building a budget PC in that range.
This is an ELEVEN year old REFURBISHED computer for 500 bucks, lmfao. Do not buy this. Run.
Run fast.
Far.
Away.
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Amazon has it for $399 with the SSD and 2 TB plus an optical drive this one 1TB no optical.
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Optiplex-Computer-Processor-Wireless/dp/B09QXV435T
[MOD: That’s Windows 10 Home. Ours is W10Pro]
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6cFBLs I don’t know your use case, but this is squeezing by what the bare minimum is for gaming these days. If you’re just using this for light, and I mean LIGHT gaming then you can do away with a dedicated GPU, and changing the CPU for something like an intel i5-12400, which has integrated graphics. This will allow you to save ~$300 while still being able to do tasks and light gaming until you can afford to upgrade. Building a PC seems daunting, but I promise you there is all the guide videos in the world on the internet to help you. Don’t let these prebuilds, especially like dell who download bloatware and such onto your PC, trick you.
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Optiplex-Computer-Processor-Wireless/dp/B09QXV435T
[MOD: That’s Windows 10 Home. Ours is W10Pro]
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Based on the minimum specs including DDR4, the CPU has to at minimum be a i7 6700. Anything older is ddr3 and therefore doesn’t meet minimum specs.
Seems like a lot of mistakes in the listing, under specs it says ddr4 with a processor that only supports ddr3. Does woot have to honor their wrong listing or do they just refund?
It also lists chassis options which are all optiplex so this is a business computer with a graphics card added, not a gaming pc, not to say it wouldn’t work fine for gaming. It also lists optiplex 770 as an option which isn’t even a real model number.
I’m pretty sure this listing should be for random assortment of optiplex 390,790 or 990. Of which all have 2nd Gen core i7 processors that are 11years old and all. Come. With ddr3 memory. And unless they’re giving you a significantly better graphics card then was sold then this would be a very bad price.
UPDATE
As a couple posted here, the i7-2600 processor will be paired with DDR3 memory. We’ll reach out to customers that already purchased.
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Seems like an appropriate meme
Do you feel lucky?
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Basically to let a grade schooler play PC games that aren’t available on Xbox, Android, Oculus, or Switch. Ideally, it would good enough to allow us to play Roblox VR games using the Oculus headset. Definitely not looking to run resource intensive games at their highest setting or anything. Not looking to drop $2k on a gaming rig that won’t be the primary gaming platform.
I think your link is messed up, it just points to a blank list.
I’m pretty sure the min specs for this woot listing do not meet the min specs required for any VR headset, they for sure don’t meet Oculus’ requirements.
You’d be much better off picking up a used system from FB marketplace or craigslist for $200 and spending the rest of your budget on a GPU, you might be able to get a VR capable system that way.
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I was thinking it would be these specs.
https://store.facebook.com/help/quest/articles/headsets-and-accessories/oculus-link/oculus-link-compatibility
We have a Quest 2. That link says AMD 500 Series is supported.
AKA no one is buying Rx550s anymore so we need to get rid of them 