Well, recent taffs with my ancient, Athlon 800 desktop have convinced me that maybe it's finally time to get off my butt and get a new PC. I'm thinking about building it myself, but the fact of the matter is that I'm lazy and I like the convenience of a cover-all warranty. It's been difficult for me to track down a good vendor to make one, though, in the limited time I've been searching. It seems that since I bought this one there's been a lot of little guys getting pushed out, and my choices either seem to be an HP-like device filled with bloatware, junk, and a lack of physical software cds and upgrade options, or pay through the nose for an alienware or something similar that costs an arm and a leg. Is there a middle ground anymore? Something that offers decent support and options which doesn't charge an uber-high premium? I don't need a whole lot, but I'd prefer to find someone who does sff's as well. Any suggestions?
PC vendors?
- Thread starter Clashman
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dell's would be perfect for you. They do have quite a bit of bloatware within it, but a few minutes here and there and youll get most of them out. Plus, they are really good pc's.
epic
epic
I think HP is the only big-brand label that sells AMD these days.Clashman said:
eMachines does, but they're not really a big-brand label.
Truth be told, however, all of the warranty stuff is handled by the same contract technicians locally. Or so my IT guy said.
I have to agree with Epic, Dell really is great. While they come with bloat as delivered, just do a format and then reinstall windows and you're up and running again if you don't want to fiddle with the add/remove programs thingy a lot (which probably won't get rid of all the stuff they pre-load onto their systems anyway). The quality of dell hardware is top notch, very well built and constructed.
While it may be annoying you can't get AMD thru dell, I really can't complain about the performance of my P4 system. It runs really great.
While it may be annoying you can't get AMD thru dell, I really can't complain about the performance of my P4 system. It runs really great.
The web based company I work at switched to IBM from Dell and I've heard rumblings that IBM is going to be offering AMD workstations.
ShhHHhhhh
Unless this is already known...than....I don't know
ShhHHhhhh
Unless this is already known...than....I don't know
I just helped my brother buy this ABS PC from Newegg.
http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfilesfornewegg/promo/ABS/599/index3.html
I got him the 700 dollar one which comes with a 17" LCD you have to select before putting it in the cart. When he got it 3 days later the thing is very quiet. But it has an onboard ATi Xpress video so he's going to get a X700 PCIe later next month.
Looks pretty upgradable since everything is made with parts you could find.
http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfilesfornewegg/promo/ABS/599/index3.html
I got him the 700 dollar one which comes with a 17" LCD you have to select before putting it in the cart. When he got it 3 days later the thing is very quiet. But it has an onboard ATi Xpress video so he's going to get a X700 PCIe later next month.
Looks pretty upgradable since everything is made with parts you could find.
Dell makes nice HW. Quiet and easy to work with (at least the ones I've seen in person). But they don't seem to know how to build a PSU. I've never had any problems with a PSU except for my DELL box at work. And from that batch of computers (~20) the PSU died in every single one within 18 months!
Yikes, that sounds scary.
Has anyone ever had any experience with http://ibuypower.com ?
For 1115 I can get this:
Athlon X2 3800
1 GB Ram
Nvidia 6600GT
160 GB HD with 8 mb Cache
5 point speakers
Pioneer DVD Burner
Wireless keyboard and mouse
Which to me sounds like a pretty good deal. Whatcha all think?
Has anyone ever had any experience with http://ibuypower.com ?
For 1115 I can get this:
Athlon X2 3800
1 GB Ram
Nvidia 6600GT
160 GB HD with 8 mb Cache
5 point speakers
Pioneer DVD Burner
Wireless keyboard and mouse
Which to me sounds like a pretty good deal. Whatcha all think?
Cartoon Corpse
Veteran
i was looking around the mfg site recently. looks like you can't get agp rigs anymore through them? ibuypower has a fun configurator, so i go there and goof around some. i went to a few others as well, didn't notice any agp rigs.
