A 9-year-old gamer found an affordable gaming PC on Amazon. His older brother recognized the bad deal and warned him not to spend over 450 euros on around 10-year-old hardware.
At first glance, you can find many tempting offers when shopping online. However, not every deal is as good as advertised by sellers. This lesson was learned by a young gamer, who almost made a big mistake while searching for a computer on Amazon.com. His older brother, who warned him before the purchase, reports in a Reddit post about this experience.
Tempting Purchase Offer
What kind of PC should this be? As the Reddit user reports, his little brother saved up for his own PC. With his savings from pocket money, birthday, and Christmas gifts, the 9-year-old boy decided on a gaming PC priced at 458 euros.
Before the purchase, he contacted his older brother, sent him the offer, and asked whether he would also get the corresponding performance for the requested price.
Which parts are installed? The brother took a closer look at the computer.
He was able to deduce the following specifications from the description:
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3570
- Memory: 16 GB DDR3
- Graphics card: Nvidia GTX 750
- Storage: 1 TB SATA hard drive
A Good System – from a Decade Ago
Looking at the age of the individual components or their respective release dates, it quickly becomes clear that you are offered anything but top-notch components in an affordable device.
How old is the hardware? The graphics card was originally released by Nvidia in early 2014. The processor of the 3rd Intel Core generation is a product that was even launched in 2012. It can be assumed that the other installed hardware is of a similar age.
Sellers Exploit the Ignorance of Potential Buyers
The seller advertises the PC on Amazon with the words “This system is designed to be upgradeable for years to come.”
This is not necessarily true. Anyone who buys this computer would have to use stronger and mainly used hardware from that era to perform an upgrade. The slight gain in performance does not justify the effort and the associated costs at all.
Such offers are likely aimed at tricking unsuspecting customers into spending too much money on completely outdated hardware. Therefore, it is always advisable to consult someone knowledgeable before making a purchase.
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