The best computer from 2014

You could probably get paid to take away a computer with better specs.

Literally any office pc that get sent to ewaste is better

Use the box the components are shipped in as the case.

Steal the computer mouse from the local police station for a bonus thrill.

Diablotek

That’s not a computer. That’s an incendiary device.

Perfect for playing Counter Strike!

Boots up PC

"The bomb has been planted"
You have nothing on the Tri-Fan 1200W https://www.crazysales.com.au/online-ritmo-force-1200-tri-fan-gaming-power-supply-2-3v-8373.html
- That’s absolutely terrifying.

I "built" a "100€" gaming PC. I took home an old business workstation with a 4th Gen i5 that was discarded by one of my employer's customers and was about to be scrapped, put in 16GB of mismatched, used RAM my boss gave me out of the parts pile, and paid him 100€ for a GTX 1050TI that he had ordered to test something and couldn't return.

It was enough to run Cyberpunk 2077 on low settings, and replaced my former gaming PC I had duct-taped together out of parts my friends threw away after upgrading.

This was 2014 so those were fairly high end specs at the time

I think you’d have paid about 800-1000USD for those back then
Those specs are pretty close to the gaming PC I built in 2013. 4th Gen i5 (4670K), 16GB DDR3 1600, and a 770 (later upgraded to a 1070 in 2016). Paid $1100 for it and used it for a decade; even in 2023 I could hit 60 FPS at 1080p in most new titles (with medium-low settings). If I didn't buy a 4K 120Hz OLED, I'd still be gaming on that PC today.
- Lawl I use a 4670k/16GB DDR3/1070 as my backup VR machine! It plays most basic VR games (even Alyx) at 90FPS, it’s wild! I’ve got a backup 2070s I wanna put in but I’m hella lazy. I also have a backup 1080 but I don’t think it fits in like, any cases (318mm)

Those VIA C7 CPUs were extremely slow even when they were brand new.

(Source: owned one)

That is not a bad deal holy shit where is this?

Edit: didn't see the screenshot was from 2014

A modern rasp pi could beat that for half the price
- Raspberry pi might beat it for speed but not for half the price. Even the barest-bone 4gb pi5 is $60, and that's without storage or power supply. You're at at least 3/4s the price once those are factored in.
  
  And that's just considering raw speed. If you expect to play "PC" games, you're probably going to want an x86. Raspi may well lose at that point
- Is there a pi that costs the funny sex number though? Asking the real questions.

$69.96

Nice 😎

Here's how you build a high-spec's top-tier gaming PC for a hundred dollars:

1 - Go to your non-local consumer electronics store

2 - Find the most miserable looking employee

3 - "Hey bro, I give you 100 bucks if you tell me your guys' security code"

4 - Come back at night

5 - You get the idea

4 - He gives you a false code, but takes your money.

5 - You come back at night and the cops summarily arrest you.

Use PCs are cheap, never forget this fact.

You can get Motherboard, ram, power supply, hard drive, fans, cpu basically for free if you try hard enough then spend your $100 on a gpu.

I know it's 2014, but getting a used PC is a good way to get a "gaming" pc for $100. Although the quality jumps significantly with $300.

90€ for a thinkcentre with a quad core i5-6400, 290€ for the best gpu you can get (used, check power consumption), steal a mouse & keyboard at work for free, 20€ for a good soup and you're good to go.
- 20€ for a good soup
  
  That must be some killer soup
- I bought mine in a pricey country for around $350 and upgraded the RAM for a $100. Since I play mostly discounted games that are at least 5 years old it's been great. Highly recommend giving the devs some time to finish the game after it's released (looking at you Cyberpunk)

I know, not the same, but I built my kid a cheap "Gaming" laptop from an old corporate PC that was going to be scrapped because it restarted every hour of use.

Cleaned the cooling fins and fan, repasted both cpu and gpu, got a cheap ssd and extra sodimm of ram. Was good for about a year or so until he got my Ryzen rig :)

I've paid more for Raspberry Pi's. Not including the charger, SD card, input/output devices, etc.

Lots of games worked just fine on a 486...

Commander Keen and Lemmings should keep you busy for a few evenings at least.

Protect your investment

Build a rack of rpis

I remember building my Pentium 200 from Computer Shopper. Spent almost a month going through pages to make it affordable.

I had a gaming PC in 2014. It was definitely better than that.

You paid more or less than $100 for it?
- Irrelevant. The title says "The best computer from 2014," implying that that's what this build is. It is not. It's not even close. 2004 would get you a lot closer. Also 100 bucks in 2014 goes a lot farther than it does today because of inflation, and I'm assuming the person in the image is referring to $100 in 2024.

time for some !permacomputing@slrpnk.net