Posted: 8/31/2010 10:42:13 AM EDT
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Mine is VERY old and just crapped out. Not looking for something super nice, but upgradable would be good. What's the best bang for the buck? I'm capable of building it myself, but don't really have time to do it now, leaving for A-stan in about a week and the wife needs a desktop. Already have a monitor, and a new video card (thought the old one had a bad card...) Haven't bought a new desktop in a LONG time, so thanks for the advice. |
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There are some okay deals out there, of course that takes time to shop around. I personally cannot buy a built PC, I have always built my own and it's kick ass and far better quality then anything on the market hands down. 
The cost is a great deal as well.  I think it would be beneficial if: You list where you get your stuff (Newegg? Ebay?) Amounts, percentages of savings in building as compared to buying built |
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Quoted: Just go to Wal-mart and pick up a desktop. That's what I did when I got my Dell Inspiron 531. Since then I've upgraded the power supply, added another gig of memory, installed a BD-Rom drive and replaced the Athlon 64 x2 4000 with a Athlon 64 x2 5600. Vulcan94 Yeah, I might do just that. Dell has been pretty good to me in the past. |
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Quoted: Newegg, TigerDirect and FrozenCPU are the best websites out thereQuoted: There are some okay deals out there, of course that takes time to shop around. I personally cannot buy a built PC, I have always built my own and it's kick ass and far better quality then anything on the market hands down. The cost is a great deal as well. I think it would be beneficial if: You list where you get your stuff (Newegg? Ebay?) Amounts, percentages of savings in building as compared to buying built As for savings, it is going to depend on how good/powerful a computer you want. The more powerful a computer you want the better the savings are. As an example, a $900 computer at BestBuy would cost about $650-700 to build. Along the same lines, a $900 budget for building a computer will get you a computer that would last a long time. As to the OP, since you are very time-limited, I would recommend buying something in the 600-700 range at a local BestBuy. This will work the best for your wife in case of any warranty work needing to be done while you are deployed. Lastly, thank you for your service! |
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Quoted: Quoted: Newegg, TigerDirect and FrozenCPU are the best websites out thereQuoted: There are some okay deals out there, of course that takes time to shop around. I personally cannot buy a built PC, I have always built my own and it's kick ass and far better quality then anything on the market hands down. The cost is a great deal as well. I think it would be beneficial if: You list where you get your stuff (Newegg? Ebay?) Amounts, percentages of savings in building as compared to buying built As for savings, it is going to depend on how good/powerful a computer you want. The more powerful a computer you want the better the savings are. As an example, a $900 computer at BestBuy would cost about $650-700 to build. Along the same lines, a $900 budget for building a computer will get you a computer that would last a long time. As to the OP, since you are very time-limited, I would recommend buying something in the 600-700 range at a local BestBuy. This will work the best for your wife in case of any warranty work needing to be done while you are deployed. Lastly, thank you for your service! Thanks! So, I ended up getting a mid-road Asus desktop. I already have a vid card to put into it and I'll pull one of the HD's out of my old computer to use in the new one. 8GB ram, 1TB HD, quad core Intel processors on sale for $499 + $35 for 2 day shipping from Tigerdirect. Should serve me pretty well for a few years at least. Thanks for the help guys. |