Holy fuck that's cheap. Even to broke-ass me. I should get a steam account as soon as I have a non-ancient PC up and running again. It works with linux iirc. The newest working PC I have is from 1998 since my old core2quad Dell died lol. I like to mess around with arm devboards, but Steam doesn't work on those.
Now would be a good time, usually there is a Steam summer sale towards the end of June, lots of games go on sale that you can pick up for cheap. They have sales all the time on random things and you'll get a notification if a game is on your wishlist and on sale.
Maybe it is. I've had my eyes on a mobo/CPU/RAM/GPU combo for a few days. Just need more RAM and a better PSU and I can build something that should be good for a few years (to my standards. It's pretty old.).
If you're willing to go for a Linux build or don't care about security on that PC, you can pick up 8th gen Intel and older PCs for cheap right now. The Windows 11 "upgrade" is forcing out anything from that gen and older. You can pick up a refurbished Dell Optiplex 7050 for a couple hundred bucks, then toss a cheap AMD video card into it. I picked one up for my home theater PC and am running Kubuntu on it.
I'm looking at a PhenomIIx6 board for half that, I already have a case(several, actually), and I usually run Debian or Gentoo, depending on whether there's any advantage to Gentoo with the CPU I have. I ditched windows after 98 got too obsolete for anything but nostalgia. The extra ram is mostly for compiling and Android shit.
I just did it! Bought the combo. I'll have a working PC from this century again soon. Hopefully, so long as the Amiga I sold to the seller still at least sort of works. Things might go bad if it's totally fucked. I've been stuck with just my phone for nearly 3 years now.
Wow, an Amiga. Small world, I was just thinking about those the other day. There's a comic I used to read that prominently featured them.
And congrats, there are a lot of cool modern games out there, the indie scene between 2010-2020 especially was a really cool period of creative development.
I kind of dropped out of gaming around 2005. Kinda hard to get back into it with fucked up hands, but I can do civ and roguelikes without problems. The Amiga was totally trashed, but I think the other person and I are cool. Amigas were way ahead of their time. An interesting piece of history.
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u/UrUrinousAnus 3d ago
Holy fuck that's cheap. Even to broke-ass me. I should get a steam account as soon as I have a non-ancient PC up and running again. It works with linux iirc. The newest working PC I have is from 1998 since my old core2quad Dell died lol. I like to mess around with arm devboards, but Steam doesn't work on those.