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| Psygnosis |
Ok i wanna buy a new PC, this one has already passed it's lifeline.
Now i seem to remember that someone said that building your own PC, chosing which CPU, and so on goes it into the PC actually comes out better and cheaper in the end.. is this right?
Btw is Dell a nice company, i see heaps of offers by them but hear so many complaints from people who purchased from them... these complaints were from USA customers, not aussies so it might be different??:conf:
Now is Celeron CPUs any good? or are they weak? Pentium is the best choice??
Cause when it says 2.6GHz Celeron, how much GHz is that of Pentium? isn't it like weaker?
there was this offer that had, Aspire T310 with 17' Monitor, Celeron 2.6Ghz, 256mb RAM, 40gigs HDD, CDR/DVD combo for like 984 bucks... is that worth it?
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| -=M=- |
basically, the Ghz shows how fast the processor can actually do commands... however the type of processor eg pentium, celeron, amd, etc defines how much load that the processor can handle
it pretty much runs like cars do
Celeron = Ford Laser (cheap and ecenomic)
AMD = rx-7 non-turbo (affordable and still has ok grunt)
Pentium 4 = Porsche (more expensive, but worth the money)
i wont get into all the other factors inside computers, but basically thats what you really need to know about differentiating processors |
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| bassaholix |
Well i suggest you go AMD, its cheaper than a Pentium 4, but if you want to do Digital Video Edition you might wanna do Pentium way...
Btw =M=, AMD's run on higher cycles, therefore are faster even though they have less Ghz.
I say get AMD, Asus nForce2 motherboard, a nice cooling system for the CPU and nice case, all in all AMD system will be cheaper for you :) |
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| NiNo LoCo |
Well it all depends to what you want to do with it... Graphical Designing, Gaming, Education, Video editing, Entertainment system or whatever.
As I build computers just as a hobby of mine, I recommend just building it yourself as you know what you want, as sometimes a package might sound good in some areas but there some little things that makes the whole system run good in only particular areas but bad in others.
AMD = High Temps. (i just recommend a good heatsink fan like the Thermaltake bit more expensive but its well worth it [As i blown 1 amd with a crap heatsink fan, but now i got a Thermaltake it runs with current temps. as a Pentium..
if not go for the pentium bit more expensive but you wont have to worry about the thing blowing up hehe. Unless you overclock but thats another story.
Going with the prepackaged Dell etc. sounds good but next time you want to upgrade you can't just upgrade specific parts in the system, well you kind of can, but you're restricted. Making you just buy a whole new system.
Get something that next time you upgrade in a couple of years time you wont have to just buy a whole new system you can just buy the bits and pieces and still be up to date. Unless you want a new system and have two computers if that tickles you fancy in the future :)
Need more help just msg. me. |
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| lethal |
My main piece of advice - INTEGRATED = BAD!!! It might be cheaper to get integrated sound, video, etc... but its a very bad idea!! About the only thing you want integrated on to the motherboard is maybe a network card and modem!!!
Also be aware that when you buy packages from the likes of HP (and prolly Dell - havent looked into there stuff) most of what you get is integrated! Makes it very hard to upgrade in the future.... |
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