I really only ever play Minecraft, Left 4 Dead 2, Planetside 2, and TERA. I've been doing so on a laptop so far, but (other than Minecraft packs under 200 mods) those games are pretty CPU intensive and tend to overheat my laptop rather quickly, even with my cooling pad, or drain my battery too quickly. I've decided on a max price of 500 dollars including upgrades, since my friend is willing to sell me his gaming desktop for that much (32gbram, 6core RFX290 FAT2 chip set, 6 fan cooling system, 500gb hard drive, 280 watt power supply).
I like these for the prices, especially the Lazer, but I would be buying 8+ gb RAM the moment I get it. Are any of these good gaming PCs, just for what I'm playing? And are any of these companies really reliable? Most of the bad reviews are responded to and corrected, but the ones that aren't are absolutely unacceptable, like broken parts or having no OS.
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