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In the PC market and still looking...help!

by wrigleyfield Nov 13, 2005 2:38PM PST

i'm about 10 hours in to my Desktop search (after my Vaio's 2nd crash) and nothing's jumped out at me.

looked at high end stuff but felt would be paying for stuff i didnt need, looked at XPS 400 but backing off a Dell, Velocity Micro Vector SX-V was good, but still looking.

main uses...multi-tasking (a program, music, and surfing at once)...Gaming, heavy Strategy gamer (CIV, AOE, HOI-WWII) (but no doom half-life etc...)

Big, 200GB+

Don't need: monitor or extra Media center, to TV tuner, editing, design etc.., dont care if case looks cool

Price: willing to pay for what i want

my knowledge is very limited, building my own not an option, spent alot of my time trying to nail down what processer (Pent D?, Pent HT?, or Athlon64? X2?) memory (2GB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM), and video card (GeForce 6800) i need. i'm in the right range for my needs?

Bottom line: must be fast, quick, big, and handle multi tasking and big games into near future

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found Gateway
by wrigleyfield Nov 13, 2005 2:45PM PST

this seems very good, but i'll have to sleep on it. added on alot of stuff, perhaps too much?


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Gateway

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by damasta55r Nov 14, 2005 11:24AM PST

7800GTX instead. Not sure if enough power to supply. Also, without monitor, seems very expensive. BUILD YOURSELF IS LOT BETTER.

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What you need.
by VadimE Nov 21, 2005 9:46AM PST

My best advice, processor wise, is going to have to be an AMD AthlonX2. Resaon being that it will handle multi tasking really well. Keep in mind though, that AMD is more for gaming than applications, but it will take TONS of information to slow it down, especially if you have 2gigs of ram. AMD usually uses a faster BUS speed, and processes 64 bits rather than 32. There arent really too many application that will use the 64bit potential but there will be in the near future.

Here is my advice to you as far as what brand to choose. If you are not very computer literate I would go with Alienware, they use very reliable components. So you shouldnt have any major issues, plus their tech support is supposedly really nice.

I would reallllllyyyy advise you to buy the system from a place like Best Buy, if something goes wrong you can go in person rather than complain over the phone. Im not sure where you live though, so I'm not sure how accessable that would be for you.

SPECS:
Processor: AMD Athlon X2 4800+
Ram: 2GB (the more the better)
Hard Drive: 200 GB+
VIDEO CARD: ATI x850 pro, or NVIDIA 6800 (overclocked)

I hope this helps you, if you have more questions feel free to e-mail me @ vadim_e@hotmail.com, good luck and enjoy.

Vadim.

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