Computer Help

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Dell

I think our family owns about 5 Dells... Never a problem with anything. You can spend 9000$ on an elite gaming computer, or 499$ on a word processor.

Go dell... and PHONE IT IN!!!

Phone in your order, and I promise you, you can sucker something free out of them. My brother got a free printer, with my laptop I got a free backpack, with my desktop way back when they upgraded my speakers.

You'll get some guy in India, and he'll cut you a deal... always. Smooth talk, smooth talk, smooth talk. They want the money, you want free shit. It works every time

True... there may be better computer makers, but none are as easy to customize. Customizing a computer from scratch is complicated, and the ones pre-made in stores probably have as many alleged horror stories as Dell. But to be honest, I've never heard one about Dell *shrugs* They are good quality.

When buying your Dell, make suuuure you watch for a few weeks. There's a new deal every week, something free, something half off. Just keep an eye on their site. I usually know exactly what I want by using their easy-to-use website to chose a model, and add the features you like. Then give them a call They have free shipping fairly frequently, if not always, too

If the computer for the kids, try and get a graphics card from Nvidia or ATI. The Intel Graphics card is awful... it wont play a lot of games, or at most they'll look shitty. An upgraded graphics card will run you about 50$ (more for a great one obviously, but if it's Nvidia or ATI you're good). Upgrading your sound card is nice too... that shouldn't be more than 30$.

The computer DC is talking about is pretty good, but this week it's about 1100$ to start. The model one lower (believe it's still the 9200c) is cheaper, stars around 900$ and then you can upgrade a few components. For gaming, RAM is very important, but looking at computers these days, not many come with poor ram

And I agree with Noods... go XP if you can. Not all Dell models still offer it.

If you've already got a monitor, you'll save money there too (200$-ish for the standard monitors the mid-range desktops come with)... but the new monitors that dell sends out these days are preeetty fine Then again, you use an existing monitor, or go find a non-flat panel for 50$ (that could get you a huuuge old-school, but still nice monitor) and then kick up your desktop a little more Those old chunky screens are still great for games... and by old I mean 2 years ago, when they still sold the non flat-panel kind. These flat panel ones have refresh rate, which makes games look like shiiit if it's not a decent monitor.