Just wondering what you guys and gals have, and why. I have been hearing good things about the AMD Athalon Processor. I will be getting somethig next week, so any help or advice will be appreciated. Thanks!

 

Travis,

Shoot me an email, please.

wylman@houston.rr.com

 

Wyldman,

I'm curious.... who do you work for? Can you e-mail me at jarmstro@wt.net

Thanks,

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John Armstrong
2000 Red Lightning
#444 of 4966
Born 2/22/2000
Went home 3/6/2000

 

Travis,

Go with a Dell. You might get lucky like I did - they have yet to send me a bill on my laptop. $3800. Oh, it's been a year since I bought it.

Besides, they are a great computer. My brother has 2 and his roommate has a couple also.

Jerrod

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Caka - I've got one with an 866 Intel chip and one with an 800 AMD Athalon chip. Both work great and both machines are from Gateway. The key for good performance, IMHO, is lots and lots of RAM (more is better). I ordered the Intel box with 128M and the AMD box with 64M. Once I got them I called Gateway and had them send me the spec sheet for each motherboard. Once I had the specs I loaded up on memory from a third party vendor. Gateway wanted $210 for a 128M stick of memory and I bought the exact same thing for $60.

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Rick

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Hey Caka, I'm in austin with ya, and I have extensive experience building high performance computers. If you end up wanting to build your own computer, I can give you whatever advice or help you need. Hot rodding puters was my hobby before i got my L. Now i can't afford puter stuff anymore

 

PS - don't go to compusa / bestbuy / officewhatever do get a computer. Compaq, HP, emachines and stuff like that are all things you should really stay away from. I spent 16 long months working system sales at compusa, and if you want a good system, avoid those big retail companies like the plague. Dell isn't perfect, but they are much better than the rest.

compaq, hp, emachine = chevy extreme s-10
dell = dakota r/t
homebuilt by someone who knows their stuff = lightning (but for the same price as the chevy)

 

i have a TRS 80 from radio shack...its kinda old but it still works...my 12 inch monitor only shows green but you get used to it...

 

It all depends on what you want to do with it.

The only trouble with a home built is the ongoing support. If you have trouble in six Months "Bill and Teds computer shop" may not have a working phone number.

Luckily I dont have to buy Computers any more. I just get test units from Work. The best one I have now is the Compaq AP550 workstation with 1/2 gig of ram and 2 PIII 733 processors. It runs quake great.

Doug

 

i build my own computers... who needs tech support?

go to www.pricewatch.com to get prices on all the parts you need.

buy your parts & i'll put them together along with any software you need. (windows 2000pro, office 2000 premium, etc..)

but, i live in louisiana.

 

I'm in the build it yourself catagory too. If you a technically inclined, it's a great way to save money and offers a fairly smooth low cost way for you to keep your system up to date, plus it's kind of fun. I particularly like being able to hand pick components, like motherboards, hard drives, video cards,and memory. If you are into the DIY approach then sites like tomshardware.com and sharkeyextreme.com offer great evaulations on all kind of hardware including processors. Personally at them moment I could be happy with either an Athlon or Pentium processor and if it came down to price I'd start to favor AMD. My current recommendation to people who buy systems is buy Dell, they are good enough to tell you the individual brands of the components in there systems and they don't skimp and use no name brand components either.

 

Caka
I also Have a Dell and I love it. I have the XBS B1000 it kicks serious butt. Mine has the Pentium3 with the Rdram. I also have a Gateway laptop it is pritty good. Both Dell, and Gateway make a good unit, there customer service are both pritty good. I don't think you can go wrong with either one.

 

For what, mostly?? surfing? emailing? 3D gaming?

 

If I Had The Fundage I'd get an Alienware Machine. www.alienware.com But since I don't I have a POS Celeron 550 That I Built. Check out Alienware though. They custom build machines. So You get all seperate componets but still get a Manufact. warranty. I like the Area 51

 

I'm with the Dell crowd. I've bought three of them in the last two years, and have had virtually no problems with them.

I've had a set of speakers and a keyboard go bad, but support was great and I got replacements with no hassle.

The components are good quality, and you'd be hard-pressed to do better on price.

If you're comfortable building your own, that's an option, but stay away from the retail store systems. Gateway and Micron are OK, but IMO, Dell has better support.



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Gordon

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