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Off Topic => Computers & Programming General => Topic started by: Simpsonboy77 on March 25, 2010, 06:12:58 PM

Title: Computer Build
Post by: Simpsonboy77 on March 25, 2010, 06:12:58 PM

Hey everyone,

I'm looking to upgrade my computer and I just want some other opinions. I'm looking to spend about $600 but if its really worth it, I'll go up to 750-800. It doesn't need to be spectacular, I'm not going to be doing 3d modeling or anything intensive. Basically just so it can play recent games (Starcraft 2 and other stuff). I don't need a wireless card.

I would need everything except mouse, keyboard, speakers, and monitor, and any cables.

I am looking at these items:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleD...st=Combo.343620 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.343620)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0-514-_-Product (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130514&cm_re=gts_250-_-14-130-514-_-Product)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136074 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136074)

Thoughts? Suggestions?

 

Title: Computer Build
Post by: Kayedon on March 25, 2010, 06:59:26 PM

SC2 isn't out yet, so it doesn't qualify as "recent" yet.

Additionally, I found the same products at lower prices at TigerDirect:
http://goo.gl/5zRM (http://goo.gl/5zRM)
http://goo.gl/0QlX (http://goo.gl/0QlX)

I'm no hardware expert, but it looks fine to me. Have someone else look for you though

Title: Computer Build
Post by: Simpsonboy77 on March 25, 2010, 07:05:56 PM

Tigerdirect has a bad return policy, so unless I save a lot I'd try to stay away from them. Its only 17 dollars of a difference, which I am fine with paying for the better RMA policy should anything break.

SC2 qualifies in my book if you have the beta. ;)

Title: Computer Build
Post by: Hooman on March 26, 2010, 01:26:17 AM

I don't really play games anymore, at least not new ones, so any bargain basement computer tends to be pretty useable for me. I probably spent about 300$ on my current computer and it's more than adequate for anything I throw at it. That was 300$ after a 2GB memory upgrade and 1 Gbps network card. The base price of the unmodded system was about 250$.

Mind you, I got it from a second hand computer store, and it was the last of it's kind. It appears to have been a business machine that got sold for some reason or another. It's got a 3 GHz hypterthreaded CPU. It only had 512 MB of RAM (hence the upgrade), and an 80GB harddrive though. But that's still way more RAM, and the same disk space as my old computer.

In other news, I hear you can get certain 2TB harddrives for about 130$-160$ these days. Certainly the 1.5TB drives are available at 130$. Perhaps overkill though, so if you don't need that much, than yeah, get a smaller drive. Still, it seems like decent value, particularly if you're the type of person to use whatever space you have.