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Jdub22 · 03-16-2004, 07:43 AM

try to avoid buying a pre-built computer.. have one custom built with nice parts.. will beat the crap out of any dell or gateway or whatever..
I built mine, it rocks but it's not the best.. My videocard is my fav part of it all though lol. Anyways where do u live, also whats ur budget. It would be best to try to make a friend who REALLY knows exactly what he's doing and have him build it. You can spend less than any stupid dell and get 10x the performance.. Trust me, my gf's parents bought a SONY VAIO or whatever and that thing sucks! They spend like $1200 or something and I offered to build them a machine.. Well my comp altogether would cost about $800 or so today. And let me tell u my machine could boot up and load windows like 3 times before my gf's comp would load windows once. Their machine is like a 3.2 GHz intel and all the rest is worthless crap and that's why it goes so slow. Stupid companies say they've got a 3.2 GHz cpu in their machines, and that's all people look for.. the CPU speed. They've got a stupid 32mb videocard, a slow stupid mobo, like 256mb ram or something it's horrible. $1200 for that thing! They didn't even get a new monitor with it! They use this crappy 15" old monitor and the refresh rate makes me wanna throw up. Anyways I put windows XP Pro on the machine (cuz they had Home which is stupid and slow as crap) and it runs a lot better, but not half as good as my machine.. That thing will never even play the original Half-Life. what a waste of money they spent, because now they're gonna have to buy another one in about a year or 2... Plus they're noobs so every time they get something to print, it's call for celebration because they don't know how to do jack.. I could really go on for EVER.

03-16-2004, 07:43 AM	#5 (permalink)
Jdub22 is on the 5th circle: Wrath & Sullenness Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: USA Posts: 1,035 Hellbux: 21,848	try to avoid buying a pre-built computer.. have one custom built with nice parts.. will beat the crap out of any dell or gateway or whatever.. I built mine, it rocks but it's not the best.. My videocard is my fav part of it all though lol. Anyways where do u live, also whats ur budget. It would be best to try to make a friend who REALLY knows exactly what he's doing and have him build it. You can spend less than any stupid dell and get 10x the performance.. Trust me, my gf's parents bought a SONY VAIO or whatever and that thing sucks! They spend like $1200 or something and I offered to build them a machine.. Well my comp altogether would cost about $800 or so today. And let me tell u my machine could boot up and load windows like 3 times before my gf's comp would load windows once. Their machine is like a 3.2 GHz intel and all the rest is worthless crap and that's why it goes so slow. Stupid companies say they've got a 3.2 GHz cpu in their machines, and that's all people look for.. the CPU speed. They've got a stupid 32mb videocard, a slow stupid mobo, like 256mb ram or something it's horrible. $1200 for that thing! They didn't even get a new monitor with it! They use this crappy 15" old monitor and the refresh rate makes me wanna throw up. Anyways I put windows XP Pro on the machine (cuz they had Home which is stupid and slow as crap) and it runs a lot better, but not half as good as my machine.. That thing will never even play the original Half-Life. what a waste of money they spent, because now they're gonna have to buy another one in about a year or 2... Plus they're noobs so every time they get something to print, it's call for celebration because they don't know how to do jack.. I could really go on for EVER. __________________ ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe AMD BARTON 2500+ GEIL 1GB DUAL-DDR400 PC3200 ATI RADEON X1600 PRO 256MB WD 74GB RAPTOR 10,000RPM SATA150 HDD MAXTOR 60GB ATA133 HDD WINDOWS XP PRO