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superchunk on 30 September 2007
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BenKenobi88 said:
superchunk said:
ssj12 said:
lolita said:
Have you tried with Dell... Unless you don't like them either... I don't know any other (that can be in your region). The other ones I know are near me... =/

well its easier and cheaper to build one. Dells.. ok.. but nothing to jump for joy at.


It used to be cheaper to build one, however, I have found that not to be the case anymore.


Yes, but no good video cards in prebuilt PCs.

And even if you did buy a video card for it...they're just not good for future upgrading. It's much easier to add more of the RAM you want, extra HDs, video card, PCI stuff...I dunno. For a hundred bucks or so more, I find building your own computer much more user-friendly...once you get past building it of course.


 Well, the last two I linked to had 'decent' cards for basic gaming. Not top of the line, but fine for most games. I agree that there are issues with buying a prebuilt system, biggest is the crap they preinstall and give you on thier restore disks, but there are some nice advantages.

 1. in house warranty. If you build it, the warranty and time to find and fix an issue can be a real pain in the ass. Plus, if you went generic on that particular part, you could easily not even have much of a warranty at all.

 2. setup is cake. 5-10mins compared to 45m-1hr.

 3.  overall cheaper these days, with usually more features. Like multi card readers and such.

 

I personally, am undecided if my next pc will be pre-built or me-built. The one I am currently on is 4years old and was me-built. At that time I saved a few hundred dollars for a much better system. Now, everytime I peice one together it seems I can find a similar if not better featured model on Dell or Frys electronics. I will probably go me-built again, only because I get to actually pick what brandnames of parts I get, and I enjoy putting it together. It will definitely be built around AMD 64 multi cores, Vista, and focused as a Media PC.