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Best place/site to buy a comp?

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by cotman68, May 30, 2001.

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    Remove all ads!
    any comments about the best place to buy a computer from? looking for quality components.. for gaming/video editing...
     
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    You can buy quality components in every good computerstore. Just look on a hardwaresite what good components are and what not. When you tell me what kinda computer you wanna have I can give some advice.
     
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    It would also help greatly to know what country you are in :)
     
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    [​IMG] I also suggest you check out http://www.pricewatch.com/ they have up to date listings for all computer parts so you don't get ripped off. Good Luck!
     
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    ahh.. man my post was vague..

    more info:

    I live in the western US

    looking for a comp that can handle video editing and gaming


    big questions:

    AMD or Pentium ? pentium 4?

    scsi harddrive important? that much faster?

    motherboards? minumum power source?

    video card recs?

    looking to spend about 1000-1500$... I already have a very good monitor and printer
     
    cotman68, May 31, 2001
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    The AMD thunderbird is probably the most powerfull CPU all-round, Pentium 4 didn't do so well in the tests

    about scsi, I dont know, I think I would rather have extra Gigabytes
     
    Lokken, May 31, 2001
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    I would advice A AMD Duron or Thunderbird. When you want to get real performance go for the 266 MHZ (mobo and memory 128 MB)

    SCSI isn't really necessary for the IDE Disks are fast enough nowadays.

    When you want real good video editing I advice A Gforce Quadro. WHen you just want good graphics in games etc. Go for a Geforce MX, Geforce 2, GEforce 2 GTS or Geforce Ultra or Geforce 3 (depends on how much money you want to spend on a videocard.
     
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    Go for T-Bird and 256 mb ram (DDR, it costs but is twice as fast). Also you get about 75 gig of IDE and 20 gig of SCSI for the same price, so the choise is not hard.

    [This message has been edited by Mollusken (edited May 31, 2001).]
     
    Mollusken, May 31, 2001
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    But do you really wanna do professional video-editing or do you just need good graphics for gamning and watching divx?
     
    Shadowcouncil, May 31, 2001
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    For gaming, I doubt you need much more than a GeForce 2.
     
    Mollusken, May 31, 2001
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    Indeed... even a Geforce MX is good enough but not that fast as a Geforce 2.
     
    Shadowcouncil, May 31, 2001
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