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1. I was joking when I said Wal-Mart XDTeancum wrote:All I can give is some general advice.
1-DO NOT buy from a little mom/pop store. If you're gonna buy instead of build, go with a retail brand at an electronics store (that means no Wal-Mart/Target either)
2-Don't buy based on the graphics card. Odds are you'll end up putting another one in it anyways. (people are always asking me to do this for them)
3-Remember that pretty much anything you buy brand new will be more than enough to run all your games, and will also run the latest and greatest games. Some of the lower end models may not run it as fast, but like I said you'll probably put a new gfx card in it anyways
4-Give Vista a good run before clean sweeping the drive. You void your warranty if you get rid of Vista, and frankly if it's a brand new PC you should be able to run with zero issue. As much as I hate Vista, most of that is due to the fact that it has a lot of bloatware programs (which can be turned off in the options)
I understand why you're saying this as general advice, but I have to disagree, I purchased my current PC from Wal-Mart nearly 5 years ago for just over $750 as an impulse buy because I needed a computer and it turned out to be one of the best investments I have made, it had zero defects and experienced no compatibility issues with anything installed, the only upgrades I have done since the purchase is add a TV Capture Card and Graphics card.Teancum wrote:...go with a retail brand at an electronics store (that means no Wal-Mart/Target either)
Yeah, come to think of it, electronics stores tend to overprice their products.AceMastermind wrote:I understand why you're saying this as general advice, but I have to disagree, I purchased my current PC from Wal-Mart nearly 5 years ago for just over $750 as an impulse buy because I needed a computer and it turned out to be one of the best investments I have made, it had zero defects and experienced no compatibility issues with anything installed, the only upgrades I have done since the purchase is add a TV Capture Card and Graphics card.Teancum wrote:...go with a retail brand at an electronics store (that means no Wal-Mart/Target either)
Just wait in line at a place like Fry's Electronics, everyone else goes for the tvs while I got my hardware; or you can get a barebones kit and place whatever you want with the basic hardware included: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... ?CatId=333
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Black Friday has the best prices for almost everything including computers.Ipodzanyman wrote:If you can wait, there is Black Friday. I bought $1200 worth of hardware for $600.
