I’m looking to get a new computer in about 2 months (for my b’day) but I’m having trouble trying to find the one I would like. I’m having a few difficulties, one I’m trying to keep it below $1000, more like $850 would be nice. I’ve looked at Dell mostly, due to my almost 6-year old Dimension 4700′s been good to me for the most part, though if I can get more for the money from a different brand I’m not complaining. .
My main purposes for the computer are games (Runescape, Guildwars, Unreal, Farcry), movies, and music which my current computer does fairly well on low-medium settings, but it being 6-years old its been getting some irritating problems which I “can” fix for awhile, but they come back after a few days/weeks so I’m tired of fixing them…And windows 7 looks nicer than Xp, plus I’ve been avoiding some things because my computer just can’t handle it…
Current computer’s running on Windows Xp Sp3, 2GB Ram, 81GB Hard Drive. Busted floppy drive (who cares) and a really glitchy CD Burner.
I just built this one on dell.com to see how much it would cost, its not bad, the only thing I really feel isn’t what I want is probably the Video Card.
PROCESSOR & GRAPHICS CARDAMD Phenom™ II X6 1035T + ATI Radeon HD 5670 1GB
OPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English
MEMORY8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz – 4 DIMMs
HARD DRIVE1TB – 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
OPTICAL DRIVE16X DVD+/-RW Drive
MONITORNo Monitor
SOUND CARDTHX® TruStudio PC™
SPEAKERSDell AX210 Stereo Speakers
KEYBOARDDell Studio Consumer Multimedia Keyboard
MOUSEDell Studio Optical Mouse
MODEMNo Modem Option
My Accessories
Personalize
WARRANTY AND SERVICE2 Year Basic Service Plan
OFFICE SOFTWAREMicrosoft® Office Starter 2010edit
SECURITY SOFTWAREMcAfee SecurityCenter, 15-Months
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUPDell Online Backup 2GB for 1 year
ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
Studio XPS 7100Studio XPS 7100 Minitower
Network CardIntegrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Adobe SoftwareAdobe® Reader 9.0
Let me know what you think of that one.
Main answers I’m looking for are as follows:
1. What Brand is best for their price (Dell, Hp, Alienware, etc)?
2. Which system is best for value (xps, Dimension 4xxx, etc)?
3. Recommended specs (is 8GB of ram really helpful, quad processor vs duel)?
4. Whenever it inevitably gets a problem can I just keep everything on my 1.5TB external Hard Drive and restart it from factory, or will that have some disadvantages?
5. Anything you would suggest that I didn’t mention?
Oh, and I want a desktop…I really **** laptops…I already have a nice monitor, so I really don’t want something that includes one..
Thanks everyone!
KingTyrant
Oh, the computer I put specs up on had a total cost of $869.99, which is a nice price I do believe.
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