buying wife desktop

[juneau]

No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NEVER NEVER NEVER BUY A MACHINE FROM THESE CROOKS!!!!!!!!!!

They sell you a piece of crap, charge you to ship it back for repairs, send it back literally falling apart and then have the balls to yell at you because you rip them on review web sites.

Do an archive search here for ibuypower and you will see my whole experience.

No then?

Barebones sounds good. But at least try and find a Intel based setup.

[{CLR}geneSW]

But at least try and find a Intel based setup.

Why? AMD chipsets do just fine for gaming and are less expensive... You don't need 120fps to enjoy a game, anything above 60fps is just fine and AMD can deliver that easily in most cases.

Also, for the IBUYPOWER post... In case anybody is wondering why rico would say that... here it is...

http://www.cainslair.org/showthread....ight=ibuypower

[JohnyRico]

http://www.resellerratings.com/store/iBUYPOWER

You have to skip the 1st 15 pages or so of reviews written by people who work for ibuypower and then start reading the next 50 or so pages of people ripping them. Mine is by GDavis on page 16.

And in case you forgot.... no. You'd be better off sending the money to Cain and wailing yourself in the head with a hammer till all the spinning colors in the room began to look like Crysis.

[Duke{CLR}]

Jeffro I just hopped on Dell and priced this one out for ya. It's $799.00 for this quad core sytem with a monitor. There are video upgrade options but I'm unfamiliar with them.


PROCESSOR Intel? Core? 2 Quad processor Q6600 (8MB L2, 2.4GHz, 1066FSB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista? Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit edit
WARRANTY & SERVICE 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis edit
MONITOR Dell S1909WX 19 inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor edit
MEMORY 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 4DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache? edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/-RW Drive edit
VIDEO CARD Integrated Intel? GMA X4500HD Graphics edit
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio edit
KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell Multimedia Keyboard and Premium Optical USB Mouse edit
MEDIA READER Integrated 16-in-1 Media Card Reader edit
MODEM No Modem Option edit
My Software & Accessories
ENTERTAINMENT & EDITING SOFTWARE WildTangent Games edit
SPEAKERS No Speaker Option edit
ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 30-Days edit
OFFICE SOFTWARE Microsoft Works 9.0 edit
My Service
REMOTE ACCESS Dell Remote Access, free basic service edit
ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
Mouse Mouse included with Keyboard purchase
Adobe Software Adobe? Acrobat? Reader 9.0 Multi-Language
Network Card Integrated 10/1000 Ethernet
Labels Windows Vista? Premium
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP No DataSafe

[Jeffro]

not bad duke.

[Duke{CLR}]

Keep us posted on your shopping. Also be sure to check out Dell coupons at coupon mountain.

http://www.google.com/reader/view/?u...ell%20coupons/

One thing to consider when buying a Dell is that the XPS systems have better tech support.

[juneau]

Why? AMD chipsets do just fine for gaming and are less expensive... You don't need 120fps to enjoy a game, anything above 60fps is just fine and AMD can deliver that easily in most cases.

Also, for the IBUYPOWER post... In case anybody is wondering why rico would say that... here it is...

http://www.cainslair.org/showthread....ight=ibuypower

That's true. But if you do have a PC that can run a game at 120fps instead of a AMD based system that runs the same game at 60fps. The latter will need to be upgraded sooner.

It is hard for me to judge all of your prices so i do my best by basing them on ours. AMD's equivilent chips are not that much cheaper than Intel's here. Maybe ?10-15 at most.

[{CLR}geneSW]

When I look here it's a bit more then that... after I did the math it comes to be about $50 or so difference at least.