You might be better off just buying a pre-built tower at this point

I see no reason I can't reuse my same RAM unless like... they don't fit in a new motherboard....

THIS IS ALL TOO MUCH MONEY THOUGH GOD

So long as it has PCI ports you can take your old RAM out and install it in the new rig

No guarantees the existing RAM will fit in the motherboard, yeah.

Usually, but not quite always.

Like you could potentially do a 12-month payment plan with Best Buy to get a new tower with decent specs and take your RAM sticks in to make sure the tower can take it

RAM transferring over would depend on the motherboard specifically

AzureChrysanthemum: .........I did not know they did payment plans

that is feasibly doable

assuming they don't throw me away for not having credit

Dell also does a financing system, often with 12 months 0 interest

It IS reliant on your credit yes

But yeah that's usually what I do when I need to replace my tower, I just did that about half a month ago in fact

Basically you have to get their store credit card and they do 12 months interest free

oh. Well

I can try

but I've been turned down from every credit card I've ever applied for, so

If you want, let me know what your budget and usecase is, and I can try and find compatible parts for you

I'd be happy to proffer some help as well

Unfortunately, Citibank was not able to approve your application. LOL yeah i thought so

Have you just never had a credit card?

No

because I cannot get approved for them

because I have no credit

or worse, I had bad credit because of student loans

I THINK I just have no credit now because it's been long enough that the student loan stuff dropped off

Likely no credit yeah

Probably if you want to establish credit, you need to get one of the shittier cards like capital one that tend to take everyone

but I think it's very funny how if you're on time for every payment nothing happens to your credit score,
and then if you're late once, maybe twice, your entire score tanks
(with student loans)

Then just use it for your day-to-day expenses and pay it off every month just to establish something

alas

working on my credit score won't help me in the short-term with a new computer

that is rather the crux of the issue

Indeed.

anyway my computer still works for, like, the internet,

but not for games

this is mostly just irritating like, I don't NEED games, I SHOULD be able to just wait until after summer break then save up

but it's annoying specifically because like

me: man, look at all these computer games! well, I can wait until I'm on break then play them, I don't have time rn with work and stuff,
summer break: /here
computer: /won't play games
me: i guess i have to wait until after break.... when i won't have time again....