| jpcsfsd said: Question for ya Squill. What is a chump box? (My guess is a quality cheap computer?). I will be looking for a new computer soon and I was going to just go to my local best buy, but this blows anything there out of the water for the price. Is this a special occasion or are these deals all over the internet. Thanks for any advice as my current computer has the original windows 98, a 6 gig harddrive, 56 megs of ram and like 450 mhz processor. So it sucks for doing anything on the internet. Hell it sucks just trying to turn this POS off. |
Chump box = good computer for "chump" as in low prices. Its local slang, im not sure if it applies world wide.
If you're a newbie with computers then I suggest you go for chump option #2 or something like that, depending on your budget. Whether or not you want a graphics card depends on how you want to use your computer, if you do want to play games then its actually quite a powerful graphics card for monitors up to 22".
So thats something like a Compaq with a decent CPU, 3gb ram, Memory card ready, Vista 32bit (Important if you want to catch up on PC games you may have missed). So yes, its a great balance between price and performance and you can stretch it out a bit if you want to play games with the graphics card option I put in there. It should do pretty much anything you want out of it. Plus its a cinch to put that graphics card in. Its simply remove one screw, push out a retaining clip and screw in the card.
If you don't want to play games, seeing your needs are probably pretty limited the other option to consider is something like a Laptop computer. It shouldn't be too much more than the basic compaq desktop but it comes with a screen and you can use it anywhere. Sure it will be lower specced, but I doubt you'll need it unless you want to play games.
Tease.
