new rig suggestions?
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just listen to me and get a cheap dell. it will save you money in the long run or just suck it up and get a nicer laptop later on.
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...I really wanna get out and shoot people.
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The motherboards have absoloutely no upgrade potential, sometimes theres a free PCI slot or a PCI-E 1x slot, but thats usually the most you get.
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i don't think he gives a shit about upgrade potential.
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Originally Posted by WiLL
...I really wanna get out and shoot people.
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well i had my friend look at it it seems there was dust in the memory slot. then we saw that the cpu fan was not spinning. so i just ordered a cpu fan from newegg hopefully thats it till i can decide what pc to get...
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dell
Dell Inspiron 531
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+, Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic
PROCESSOR AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic edit
MONITOR No Monitor edit
MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW Drive edit
VIDEO CARD 128MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache edit
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio edit
KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse edit
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive Included edit
MODEM & WIRELESS No Modem Option
$619
"oh it's not a core 2" you know what? go suck a dick. Really, the core 2 duo's are faster, sure but the AMD ones come close enough in speed and are a ton cheaper.
You sit someone down with an AMD X2 4000 and a low end core 2 duo and they use the internet and email, neither cpu will even feel the breeze. 90% of people won't need anything more than that.
Dell Inspiron 531
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+, Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic
PROCESSOR AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic edit
MONITOR No Monitor edit
MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW Drive edit
VIDEO CARD 128MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache edit
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio edit
KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse edit
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive Included edit
MODEM & WIRELESS No Modem Option
$619
"oh it's not a core 2" you know what? go suck a dick. Really, the core 2 duo's are faster, sure but the AMD ones come close enough in speed and are a ton cheaper.
You sit someone down with an AMD X2 4000 and a low end core 2 duo and they use the internet and email, neither cpu will even feel the breeze. 90% of people won't need anything more than that.
I missed Sean
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From: Fairfield/Bridgeport CT
dell
Dell Inspiron 531
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+, Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic
PROCESSOR AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic edit
MONITOR No Monitor edit
MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW Drive edit
VIDEO CARD 128MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache edit
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio edit
KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse edit
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive Included edit
MODEM & WIRELESS No Modem Option
$619
"oh it's not a core 2" you know what? go suck a dick. Really, the core 2 duo's are faster, sure but the AMD ones come close enough in speed and are a ton cheaper.
You sit someone down with an AMD X2 4000 and a low end core 2 duo and they use the internet and email, neither cpu will even feel the breeze. 90% of people won't need anything more than that.
Dell Inspiron 531
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+, Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic
PROCESSOR AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic edit
MONITOR No Monitor edit
MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW Drive edit
VIDEO CARD 128MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache edit
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio edit
KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse edit
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive Included edit
MODEM & WIRELESS No Modem Option
$619
"oh it's not a core 2" you know what? go suck a dick. Really, the core 2 duo's are faster, sure but the AMD ones come close enough in speed and are a ton cheaper.
You sit someone down with an AMD X2 4000 and a low end core 2 duo and they use the internet and email, neither cpu will even feel the breeze. 90% of people won't need anything more than that.
http://www.dell.com/content/products...=19&l=en&s=dhs
dimension 531 with all of above except: 4400+, 19"LCD, ATI-X1300 instead of Nv-7300, priced to $649 with code "6JHJWDHQ85D?BX"
Last edited by sherwood; Jul 18, 2007 at 09:28 PM.