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| Gen 1499th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Buying a new computer, any good net dea"
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Hey guys, I want to buy a new computer, but I am trying to keep it under 500 dollars, and I want it to at least be able to play Unreal Tournament 2003 at a decent frame rate. Anybody know some cheap and RELIABLE online sites? I was looking at pcusa.com but they have a few complaints from the Better Business Bureau. A site that lets you customize would be best too!
Don't buy from Dell. It will take you hours to get someone on the phone if you ever want to speak to someone. Then instead of solving their problem, they will transfer you to someone else, which means more hours of pressing your phone to your ear listening to their on-hold-music.
My next computer I'm buying one part at a time.
But for pre-grouped computers I've been eyeing www.sys.com , among a few others....
I recomend choosing AMD processors. Intels have given me bad vibes for years.
Look for places that you can return the system to should it have a problem, and places that offer a warranty.
I haven't used Macintosh much in recent years but I'm sure it would be also fine to get the latest Macintosh model. They're not bad. IBM-style computers just give you more software to choose from and more customizability. Although each new version of Windows (should you use that OS) locks out more and more older software, for the purpose of satisfying MS's evil plans.
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| Mog
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| "Re(2):Buying a new computer, any good net dea" , posted Tue 22 Apr 21:28
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Hey guys, I want to buy a new computer, but I am trying to keep it under 500 dollars, and I want it to at least be able to play Unreal Tournament 2003 at a decent frame rate. Anybody know some cheap and RELIABLE online sites? I was looking at pcusa.com but they have a few complaints from the Better Business Bureau. A site that lets you customize would be best too!
Is that $500 with, or without a monitor?
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Don't buy from Dell.
I'll second that. The quality of Dell machines has dropped dramatically over the past few years. They've started using low quality parts and their customer service is only a sliver of what it use to be. I've had to fix more Dells at school....
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I recommend choosing AMD processors. Intels have given me bad vibes for years.
I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. Each company's current chip has its strengths and weaknesses, and from my experience end up coming out about even in the end.
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I haven't used Macintosh much in recent years but I'm sure it would be also fine to get the latest Macintosh model. They're not bad.
Again, I'll second that. Mac's are quiet good machines, and while I probably won't buy one until Apple becomes the dominant gaming platform, I have no qualms recommending them to people.
As always, the above is just my opinion.
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| Radish 1138th Post
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| "Re(3):Buying a new computer, any good net dea" , posted Tue 22 Apr 21:30:
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I haven't used Macintosh much in recent years but I'm sure it would be also fine to get the latest Macintosh model. They're not bad.
Again, I'll second that. Mac's are quiet good machines, and while I probably won't buy one until Apple becomes the dominant gaming platform, I have no qualms recommending them to people.
As always, the above is just my opinion.
One of my problems with Macs is that in order to get them fixed, you have to get it serviced by an authorized Apple repair store, which passes the negative savings on to you. It seems like if you have a lot of money and don't want to do a lot with your machine, Macs are the way to go since they don't crap out much, are easy to use and are highly standardized. For everyone else PCs are much better.
EDIT: I will agree that mass produced consumer PCs are getting worse and worse. HP and Compact joined forces to make the world's most unstable desktops and Dell's new 2 gig computers are slower than my old beater I've been running 4 years now.
My recomendation would be to find some small computer dealer that makes the computer from scratch. That seems to work out the best if you can get some kind of warrenty. You might pay a little more, but my custom build is going still going strong and I run it pretty hard compared to the messes I fix daily that are used to download porn, mp3s and write papers.
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| CrazyMike 498th Post
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| "Re(5):Buying a new computer, any good net dea" , posted Wed 23 Apr 20:06
Well the site I was looking at, you could build a 2 GHZ AMD Athlon XP, with 512 megs of RDRAM, a motherboard with onboard LAN/Audio, a CD-RW 48x, 40 gig HD, 300 watt power supply, and a Nvidia FX5200 all for 495 with a 1 year warranty. That is without monitor, printer, blah blah, I'll be reusing the ones i got. www.pcusa.com if anybody is interested. I think that is enough to play Unreal Tourny 03 (I'll wait down the road for a new videocard when I am ready for Doom 3).
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