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Where do YOU get the money for the latest pcs for the new games?

I mean, i'm 15 and i'm expected to pay £500 to get my pc updated for the new games coming out like half life 2 and stuff

How is a 15 year old ment too get £500!!!

how do you do it? :S


*walks off carrying empty open wallet with a moth flying around it*

Or offer to help pay for it.

Josh8899 wrote:
> Where do YOU get the money for the latest pcs for the new games?
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> I mean, i'm 15 and i'm expected to pay £500 to get my pc updated
> for the new games coming out like half life 2 and stuff
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> How is a 15 year old ment too get £500!!!
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> how do you do it? :S
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>
> *walks off carrying empty open wallet with a moth flying around it*

First of all, exactly what are your current PC specs and what are you wanting to upgrade to? Remember 9 times out of 10 it actually works out cheaper to buy a complete new base unit or a PC for that matter. Take for example my old PC, it was an AMD Duron 950MHz, 256Mb PC133 RAM, 15.2Gb HD, 64Mb GeForce 2 MX400, 52x CD-ROM, 17" monitor and standard 300W Case, Keyboard, mouse etc. So by the time i'd caulculated how much it would cost me to upgrade it, it actually worked out cheaper in the long run to just build a new PC from scratch.

Also you could try and bribe your parents into buying you a new PC by saying what a good investment it would be, as they have such useful applications for the whole household.

Josh8899 wrote:
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> how do you do it? :S

I used to use my student loans to buy bits for it.

You don't need 500 quid, just update it a bit at a time. A gfx card now, maybe a new motherboard and processor next time, sound card after that.

I haven't updated my pc for quite a while though.

theres always credit, buy now pay nothing for yonks, that gives you the time to save it.

Personally though, if I were you, I'd get a console like the ps2 or xbox, and use that for games, most games on the pc are available on console (apart from a lot of the rts type games), and they only cost about 150 squid.

PCs are a very expensive games machine.

UrkiE-UK wrote:
> take Star wraith 3. it's not well-known in most places

You can say that again. But don't.

paper round my ass - you want to get into programming languages and making dosh quickly and in large bursts. take Star wraith 3. it's not well-known in most places but it's making good money. and it was made in Dark basic, which is just crap but y'know.

I have m.e. ^_^

Get a part time job, for hell's sake, Josh8899...

I work, and have saved up enough money to buy three top of the range, extremely high spec PC's. I just settled for a £700 base unit though, and that's £700 well spent.

BAH!

Lie about your age to get a job.