Woot Computer?

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Today's Woot is an HP AMD PC. I want a new Windows computer for video games. Is this one worth it?

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Oops, I forgot to mention. This company gets these things in small quantities, so if you like that pc, you might not want to delay purchase. I personally feel confident assembling computers from a motherboard here, a vga card there and any one of a dozen old cases I have laying about, and EVEN THEN I have difficulty resisting the temptation to order that PC I just linked you to. I swear I can't build a comparable system for less than the $147 price on it.

Honestly, try pricing a 40 gig HD (guessing $30), 512mb ram (guessing $20), P4 motherboard (guessing $40), 3ghz cpu (guessing $40), AGP video (guessing $20)... that's $150 before you get to the Case, Power supply, floppy drive, cdrom drive, all of which I have in my old cases.

You know... if your Pentium 3 is housed in a standard ATX chassis, you could simply buy a new motherboard, CPU and modern memory module for it and save on shipping, but as I don't know anything about your pentium 3, I'd be afraid to suggest it. If you list it's brand and model number (hopefully listed on the back) I'll try to look it up for you to determine if it is a good candidate for a new motherboard. There is a liklihood however that depending on the style of new motherboard, you'd still have to put an extra $20 in to buy a P4 style power supply, although not all P4 motherboards actually require that.