HELP ME BUILD A CHEAP GAMING PC

[bahogbahog]

sir i have a intel pentium 4 3.06GHz  ati-radeon-x300-x550-x1050-series
and lastly a daewoo lucoms CT7610 motherboard.... which components of my computer shud i upgrade 1st to a cheap gaming computer..THANKS i want to ugrade my computer to a cheap gaming pc. What must i do first?  
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[camerongray]

It really depends how much you can spend.  Your current PC looks far too old to be worth spending any money on so your only real option is to completely build a new one from scratch - Other than the case which isn't really worth anything I can't see anything in your current PC that could be reused in something new.

[Geek-9pm]

When talking about cheap, real cheap, there is almost no advantage in  using components. And gaming PCs have to be  above t average performers. So,m it can't be done. If you have just a little money, go buy a used XBOX. A working unit is about $80 or so. You can't build anything for that money.

[BC_Programmer]

When talking about cheap, real cheap, there is almost no advantage in  using components.

I don't know- components seem pretty important. I know I'd have a hard time building a PC without components.

[patio]

Cheap and Gaming should never be used in the same sentence....

[Maleke]

Sure lets think about building an economical gaming PC.

Lets start with what you want to play and at how high a graphics setting?

If you wanna play the newest FPS at ultimate, it won't happen.  If however you just want to play WoW or LoL at decent settings, we could pretty easily get you there for a few hundred dollars.

Inputs from you:
Budget
Performance Requirements

-Mal

[pcurtj1974]

There is always Craigslist.....

[DaveLembke]

 

If however you just want to play WoW or LoL at decent settings, we could pretty easily get you there for a few hundred dollars.

I have played both of these game titles with lesser processing power than the 3.06Ghz HT P4...... a $30 video card ( either AGP or PCIE ) would get you to the minimum specs for these games to play with about 20 fps with graphics settings set low if AGP, and if its a PCIE motherboard ( which I have doubts given the age of the computer ) you might be able to get a video card for around $40 that is PCI Express that would allow for mid-grade graphics settings with the Pentium 4 3.06Ghz thereon being a bottleneck for anything better in processing power of the graphics which handshakes with the GPU. I have a feeling that the video card is AGP, although I have seen the ATI Radeon x300-x500-x1050 series come in a 128MB PCIE 1.0 option.

i have a intel pentium 4 3.06GHz  ati-radeon-x300-x550-x1050-series
and lastly a daewoo lucoms CT7610 motherboard

Looking online the Daewoo Lucoms references to monitors, but not an actual computer. I am guessing that the operator here may be getting confused with the information that they have maybe or a typo where "motherboard" should really be "Display or Monitor"... I never heard of Daewoo making motherboards and so this sparked my interest to do some google searching, in which ebay hits show flat screen monitors.


Lastly, it would be nice if bahogbahog responded back to this as for 6/8 originally posted and now 6/21, almost 2 weeks later no response. 

[MikeCall57]

Sure lets think about building an economical gaming PC.

Lets start with what you want to play and at how high a graphics setting?

If you wanna play the newest FPS at ultimate, it won't happen.  If however you just want to play WoW or LoL at decent settings, we could pretty easily get you there for a few hundred dollars.

Inputs from you:
Budget
Performance Requirements

-Mal

If you're fine with an APU instead of the combination of a CPU and Graphics card, here is a build that I found for just over $200.