This build worth $250?

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A friend is trying to sell me a old gaming pc build at a price of $250. It's about 2.5 years old, and could use more ram. He claims it can handle games pretty well. I had someone else look it over and they said its terrible. Money is tight, really tight and I recognize for this price games may not look pristine, but it's better than the old laptop I have. Here's the specs:

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3.1 GHz) [ 2 Cores, 2 Threads ] 1MB --never overclocked -- never needed to.
Motherboard: nVidia nForce 590 SLI
Memory: 4GB DDR2 -- can be upgraded to 8GB
Video/Graphics: Dual SLI Cards -- ATI Radeon HD 4870 (From Alienware) each 512MB DDR5
Storage: 250GB SATA HDD 16MB Cache -- Fast
SONY DVD RW AW-Q170A

Case: Diablotek -- approximately 8 months old 3 120mm Blue LED Quiet Fans 2 80mm Blue LED Quiet Fans, Awesome CPU Cooler with multiple Blue LEDs by Gigabyte - cooling is not a problem and not loud.
Power Supply: 880W SLI Certified with Blue LED fan.

I would like to be able to play games like Guild wars 2. Also if it's far from good can I upgrade it?
 
I'm going to say no.
At 250 dollars, that is about the cost of a decent video card alone.
 
Wish said:
I'm going to say no.
At 250 dollars, that is about the cost of a decent video card alone.
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Aw I had a feeling it was too good to be true. Not even a good starting point huh? Guess I may be stuck pcless for a good while.
 
AoJones said:
Aw I had a feeling it was too good to be true. Not even a good starting point huh? Guess I may be stuck pcless for a good while.
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That graphics card is around 5 years old.

If you need to game, would probably be best to buy a video card seperate.
 
Wish said:
That graphics card is around 5 years old.

If you need to game, would probably be best to buy a video card seperate.
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Bare with me please (new to this) what if I bought it could I just replace the video card later?
 
You could, yes.
Guild Wars 2 doesn't require an AMAZING graphics card; I'm going to say around 7500-8000 because that is what it takes to run Vindictus for me.

I was wrong earlier, a decent video card isn't 250; you can get one for around a hundred but 4870 is just awful.
A radeon 7750 is around a hundred dollars, but you may need to upgrade your PSU. In any case, I would go to your local Best Buy and ask, I'm no expert lol.
 
Wish said:
You could, yes.
Guild Wars 2 doesn't require an AMAZING graphics card; I'm going to say around 7500-8000 because that is what it takes to run Vindictus for me.

I was wrong earlier, a decent video card isn't 250; you can get one for around a hundred but 4870 is just awful.
A radeon 7750 is around a hundred dollars, but you may need to upgrade your PSU. In any case, I would go to your local Best Buy and ask, I'm no expert lol.
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Alright thanks so I'm guessing I shouldn't get it? It's the cheapest one available to me that looks somewhat legit. Also if guild wars 2 can play it for now, I would be fine as long as I can upgrade parts later.
 
pretty sure 4870 can't even run it :( sorry
 
yeah definitely not. I spent about 150 on each of my GFX cards. You wont be able to run much with that.
 
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