A New Gaming PC from $320-$681 and It Works!

A Cheap Gaming PC that works efficiently for most games out now.

Dell Vostro Series.

This is often overlooked, and they are incredibly cheap compared to most PCs

I currently own 3 Dell Vostro's they are actually so cheap that I upgrade every single year, and I upgrade the monitor that comes with them. I will explain the benefits to getting a Dell Vostro.

Often Dell holds all sorts of bonuses for buying a Vostro too, they are usually business PCs so Dell will give big discounts on them all the time, because they are manufactured in such a large bulk. What I would recommend is choosing a Vostro and just upgrading the Ram and the Video card, you can do this yourself too, and save a little more money.

Typically a Vostro will cost you Less than $500 (after tax) with a 19 inch monitor which is usually included and free. What I do is every year I upgrade the monitor by a couple more inches, it isn't that expensive about $100 more will get you, if you search online you can also find a free shipping coupon usually, but on a lot of products they offer free shipping if the item is over $500 (Base price.) so typically I recommend people choose between whichever upgrades they deem worthy.

Video Card 512MD Nvidia $90 and Memory $44
Or go for a 23" Monitor which is $90 which may bring you short of the $500 minimum free shipping since shipping does cost a pretty penny usually you might want to just buy the additional Memory which is recommended anyway for $44

For gamers I would recommend getting all 3 upgrades including the monitor, after all you will save on shipping still. With full upgrades this Desktop PC comes to 681.00, there is no real reason to buy a 1gb video card at this time, most computer games don't need them, this 681 includes 4gigs, and the 512mb video card.

For a Gamer this would be the ultimate PC. that will stay good for the next 2 years at the very least, if you only buy the bare minimum and don't buy the video card or the memory, and still won't to game on it, That's still more than possible, these run WoW smoothly even 25 man raids, just you will get system lag at times, and don't expect to run at 30fps during raids, if you get the Video card you will retain 30fps with no problem at all times, though usually it'll actually be 60frames per second. You'll be quite satisfied.

If you don't plan to use this computer as a gaming PC, $409 is a great deal no matter how you look at it. Since it would be business or school, it will do everything you need with no problems. If you take a look at what it comes with and do a break down you will feel as if you are buying it half off

(This is not including the additional memory, video card and upgraded monitor.)
Windows 7 $100-$300
Free Monitor/Keyboard/Mouse/ $160 total
250gig Hard drive - $25
2gigs of memory - $65
1 year warranty - Which is incredible to have, I purchased one, and had an outage once, it fried the computer, it was replaced by Dell. I received a new one in only 3 days.
Computer Processor about $150 would be hard to get it for less.
TOTAL = 500 Before tax, before shipping for each part.

Building your own computer of equal quality would cost you almost 800, you'd still need to buy the case, the motherboard, etc...

You having them build it costs from $409-$681 plus free shipping still cheaper than building it yourself, and the warranties aren't scattered everywhere.

Now here is the FINAL trick if you already have a monitor and don't need one, or if the free one is good enough it will be only $591, also when you receive that monitor you can go sell it on ebay for $80 or more bringing the price down to $511.

Also for those who need just a desktop PC and no monitor you would be looking at getting this PC after all the hard work for only after ebaying the monitor and keyboard/mouse since you already have your own, you are looking at the PC costing around $325. Now that is a nice Price tag for anyone. And most likely an upgrade for a lot of you out there.


Pros: Affordable $409 without upgrades and still comes with everything and it's ready right out of the box.

Cons: No speakers! If you are a gamer though, you already have a headset, or speakers lying around anyway, and if you don't read my article on the speakers!