I have decided i am sick of not being able to use my only computer for weeks at a time. So What I will do is I will be saving up for a new computer for the rest of the year. At the latest it will be around by christmas, but if I save up around 500 dollars or so that will be all I need (and no, im not begging for donations. I will get this money by getting a job of some kind). So really, all I ask is what computers do you use?
Getting a new computer soon.
Sun, 07/13/2014 - 13:17
#1
Getting a new computer soon.
Sat, 07/19/2014 - 17:28
#3
i want something with power to it, since i also make huge videos on youtube. and i want it to have windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit installed.
Sun, 07/20/2014 - 07:42
#4
Not sure if you have the capability to build it yourself but that is by far the cheapest option if you're limited to a budget of $500. If you can't build it yourself, can you get a friend to do it for you?
If you like doing big videos, then something with quite a lot of everything will do the job (i.e. decent sized hard-drive, four/quad core processor, decent graphics card and get a lot of DDR3 RAM).
Go for 64-bit, too (32-bits are limited to 4GB RAM). 32-bit is old hat now.
My system is an Intel i7 (Quad-Core) 2GHz, 6GB RAM, 1.5TB hard drive, nVIDIA GTX 295 graphics - though my PC is about five years old now.
The problem with buying a PC is that it's out of date within all of a couple of minutes of you turning it on for the first time.
My PC has lasted the test of time because I invested about £1000 ($1700) in it and I probably won't upgrade again for another 1-2 years (mind you, we pay through the nose for stuff in the UK, so you might have got the same system cheaper in the US - not sure how prices compare over there!)
Nevertheless, if you're limited to $500, you could still get a pretty decent setup for that - but if you can't make it yourself, you'll pay a premium for someone else to make it for you.
Something like this looks half-decent (http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-8700/pd?oc=fddogs104rw7&model_id=xps-8700) but I'd bet you could build the same system yourself for around $500.
Sun, 07/20/2014 - 11:31
#5
actually, I know a few people who can help me build one. I will give them a call if I do choose to build my computer.
Well it depends if you want to play games, do some office work or whatever - but today is quite normal to have MB with ddr3 memory, 4core processor socket, ssd+hdd and some good piece of graphic card. :-) And OS of course... Win or Linux...as you wish.