Say I have 500 to use. A nice practical constraint, but enough wiggle room to have some options. First thought is obviously a budget gaming rig, that would probably skimp on things like optical drives for better GPU/cpu etc. Thats nice, but what else can i do?

Some desktop for some other task? Graphical stuff? Audiophile rig?

What other computing hardware is out there... super old off of store shelves stuff? Mess around with that for free?

What if I just bought massive amounts of hard drive space and stored peoples data for a minimal fee? That sounds like a ship that has sailed.

You tell me

I'll give the boring answer....SAVE IT.

building a computer just for the sake of building? that's an expensive hobby

cloud storage is free now (for certain amounts of space)


ship has sailed

Yeah I know that. Which is why I'm wondering what Microscoft was thinking when they came up with their microsoft account thing. The thing trying to get me to sign up for some bs microsoft account to get access to cloud storage when my computer comes with dropbox space.



Yeah, if you don't sell it

This post was edited by ForTheMathematics on Dec 5 2014 12:46pm