500 in holiday / b-day cash

[BabyHeadCrab]

What exactly would you do if you were me? Upgrade comp hardware? Get "x" game? Buy a PSP maybe? I have no idea what to do with it.. I may just save it up? Any suggestions for this pc gamer.

btw throw this in OT, I always forget to change forums before posting damnit.

 

[OmegaX]

Well why kind of PC do you have now? If its not really worth upgrading then get something else.

 

[Dalamari]

Buy a 360 and PGR 3 / Perfect Dark

Money well spent

 

[Lucid]

Save it up.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Buy a 360 and PGR 3 / Perfect Dark

Money well spent

I used work money to pay for 360 + PD, this is extra

pc:
amd 3500+, 6800LE(agp), 1gig mem

Save it up.

not a bad idea

 

[Asus]

If it was me right now I'd buy a nice 20" LCD.

 

[Zeus]

save it up

 

[CyberPitz]

I'd save it to buy myself another 2nd Gen RX-7....

 

[Lucid]

Yeah, Save it up...

Like keep it as emergency cash or something.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

If it was me right now I'd buy a nice 20" LCD.

that would be very nice, useing a horrible 14" compaq crt.. lol, but i've never quite been happy with the picture lcd monitors provide, they look odd at angles and have dead pixels / ghosting.

I'm aware monitors have come out that are aimed at gamers and have brighter pictures and faster refresh rates but I just dont want to go through all the trouble only to get a monitor that might have dead pixels. I shall see.

 

[Naudian]

^ Well, I guess a 17-19" flat CRT monitor would be cool if you don't want LCD...

BUT, if you're young and don't have a car, I would save it towards something like that instead, which is what I'm doing with my $290 in christmas money...

 

[Iced_Eagle]

For the LCD you can go the route I did and just bought a small LCD TV and just sort of used it as my monitor

I have 0 dead pixels (I've never noticed a dead pixel on an LCD TV but for some reason I see some in LCD monitors... They do appear to be the same technology, so I'm not sure if TV's get a more careful check or what... I have no blur, no ghosting, etc etc... Very nice monitor It's a Cornea CT1702T, and I can also hook up my Xbox if I want (however _that_ looks like crap... obviously it's not running at the native resolution, so that's when you get uber blurry-ness)

 

[OvA]

Buy a hooker and make her drink dozens of bottles of Pepto-Bismol

 

[Krynn72]

You cant save up your christmas money! Its meant to be spent on presents that you would have gotten if your friends/family werent to lazy to figure out what they are. I spent my 80 bucks (yeah, thats right, only 80 you rich bastards) on a new ps2 controller and ncaa 06 football.

I would buy a monitor, or a hooker and make her drink dozens of bottles of Pepto-Bismol.

 

[Freemanator89]

If it was me right now I'd buy a nice 20" LCD.

Right, a monitor, or a PCI-E mobo w/ a 6800GS maybe.

 

[Harryz]

Give it to me.




Or save it up.

 

[oldagerocker]

I'd by the best AGP graphics card i could find. Or an mp3 player, thingymajig