Build or Buy

hatpin7 · Rated PG-13 Joined: 02 Aug 2006 Posts: 26 Location: canada

Yea very true, What card would you replace it with?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:35:27 Post Subject:

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:03:06 Post Subject:

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:06:41 Post Subject:

kimchiman · Rated R Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 60 Location: New Jersey

You can't beat some of those deals, better than a garage sale, but you could use the situaion as a nice opportunity for yourself.

Having a top of the line computer is tough because "better" components get released monthly. My wife hates when I spend money on my expensive toys. Best way to trick the wife is to give your current computer to the kids, then buy yourself a new rig.

My kids always destroy the file system. Partition the drive in half, Install all their games and backup to the second partition. Then you can just copy the entire partition over without trying to diagnose how they made various parts of windows cease working.

acruxksa · Posted: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:13:59 Post Subject:

I agree, buy it.
I say this mainly for the one option I find most important when it comes to my kids computers......................."The RESTORE DISK" or in my case, the lack there of. I eventually began using Acronis True Image to back up a clean install of their computers, but if I had a restore disk it would have been easier and saved me a lot of time.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:42:41 Post Subject:

Saw these deasl for about what you mentioned at Best Buy...

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:35:47 Post Subject:

Thanks Doc... I did some changing around because we need a monitor, a Wireless NIC, just the standard dual core CPU and a 19" monitor comes to $796 shipped (with tax).

Also since they have that Magic Desktop software, I added that too.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:40:00 Post Subject:

The Dell or HP?

Did you see the second one I just added to the post above? 20 inch monitor included!

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:04:44 Post Subject:

That was for the HP.

Just saw the Dell one... and I dunno... It's not bad, it's really a business machine, but... That can be changed. I like the XP option, but once I put in a wireless card it requires Vista again. UGH.

And it's hard to really tell right now on the Dell... their website is all F'baged under both IE and FF.