w00t got $ for a new computer!!! i need help picking one out

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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 09:32 AM
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well what brands are there

dell
HP
alienware

what else?
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 09:35 AM
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well what brands are there

dell/alienware
HP


what else?
gateway/acer
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 09:37 AM
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the friend built special


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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 09:40 AM
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the friend built special
don't listen to him, they have bad customer service. never getting to you on time, always doing half *** job, recommending softwares that you don't need.

how about os? guess get an illegal copy. and the other one is quad core plus there crap-tacular warrenty. if you consider those then it's justified to be better than "the friend built special"

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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 09:44 AM
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don't listen to him, they have bad customer service. never getting to you on time, always doing half *** job, recommending softwares that you don't need.
lies, its that or u want to talk to someone from India, whos going to ask you if your power plug is plugged in or have you restarted your computer yet?
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 09:46 AM
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lies, its that or u want to talk to someone from India, whos going to ask you if your power plug is plugged in or have you restarted your computer yet?
HEY HEY. Jack Thomas does help sometime, because some people do forget restarting solves maybe 50% of the time .:P
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 09:54 AM
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how about os? guess get an illegal copy. and the other one is quad core plus there crap-tacular warrenty. if you consider those then it's justified to be better than "the friend built special"
whats an OS?

Sure that dell is quad core, but games don't run better on quad core than duo core. and on top of that. we all know mike is going to play games. why use the sucky ATI2400 pro video card when you can have the video game industry standard geforce 8800gts? and if mike feels like he needs more power he can slap another 8800gts, which makes game play 50% faster. And yea its only running 2gb ram vs to dells 3gb ram. but lets not forget that vista eats up ram like no other . vista idling uses up 30% of total ram. I recommend windows xp. which can be bought for less than 80 bucks (a legal copy)
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 10:03 AM
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vista has problems

can i play my windows 2000 games on that?
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 10:05 AM
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vista has problems

can i play my windows 2000 games on that?
on windows xp? yes with no problems
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 10:06 AM
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vista has problems

can i play my windows 2000 games on that?
probably not, and I wouldn't use it either :P I can obtain an XP serial for you.
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 10:10 AM
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Mike, shop around for your hardware. you should easily be able to find a kick-*** spec'd machine for under $1K, save the rest. i can help you out with any type of software that you might need (this means everything), so ditch any of the bundled software packages that are options, just get the OS. the less the better, pre-built machines today seem to be infested with all sorts of useless software anyway...
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 10:13 AM
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Mike, shop around for your hardware. you should easily be able to find a kick-*** spec'd machine for under $1K, save the rest. i can help you out with any type of software that you might need (this means everything), so ditch any of the bundled software packages that are options, just get the OS. the less the better, pre-built machines today seem to be infested with all sorts of useless software anyway...
there we go the guy i was waiting for

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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 10:16 AM
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Mike, shop around for your hardware. you should easily be able to find a kick-*** spec'd machine for under $1K, save the rest. i can help you out with any type of software that you might need (this means everything), so ditch any of the bundled software packages that are options, just get the OS. the less the better, pre-built machines today seem to be infested with all sorts of useless software anyway...
Ed did you take a look at the parts i picked out?
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 10:20 AM
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Ed did you take a look at the parts i picked out?
they will make my DL **** easy right?
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 10:38 AM
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if you wanted to u can have two monitors, connected to ur computer with multiple videos playing on both monitors and play games. Dling pr9n is another story but i'll tell u what software to use to make it easy



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