Buying A Computer

[Jay?]

My wife has an acer. Support is good and all I've done is defrag it once. It's about two years old and still running great

That hasn't been my experience at all. I've had to fix every single Acer that anyone in my family or group of friends has ever purchased, including the Aspire that my mother bought me two years ago. The most common problem has been AC jigs coming loose and needing to be re-soldered, followed by RAM sticks going dead. There have been a few that i couldn't fix at all. I've recommended Toshiba laptops for every one of those people, and none of the ones who listened to me have had a single problem.

[Graziservers]

Mine has just 4 gigs of ram, no problems, no problems with the charger either. I've had a good experience. And it's an aspire

[Smurfkiller9000]

Im looking to buy a desktop around June next year for about £600-£1000, any useful websites, I want good RAM and video card, I'm not so bothered about space.

[Sacrieur]

Don't get a Dell, they skimp on areas that will fail in a year or two, and that includes Alienware.

Toshiba makes okay laptops, Asus is okay, and Lenovo is generally terrific all around. I always recommend Lenovo when I can because tech support is good and they don't skimp on anything, plus all their products are solid.

HP builds can be okay, maybe. Acer isn't worth mentioning.

[Smurfkiller9000]

Found my ideal one, from a really good "build-your-own" desktop website, here's the link for future people.

[Casey Carling]

Thanks for the post! I was in the same boat, I was looking for a good website to purchase a computer and I google Best Computer for Graphics and I found this website, it's awesome and has great prices, check it out!!

http://www.squidoo.com/best-computers-for-graphics

Casey Carling

[Sacrieur]

Eh, no.

CyberPowerPC is okay. I'm not sure about getting the most bang for your buck, but when it comes down to performance you can't have Asus on a list and not even mention Falcon NW or OriginPC.

[Maximus930]

I got a $20 graphics card for christmas. But it has 1G of ram, and a very good speed, not to mention sound processing on a graphics card. Yes, $20, that's not a typo.

[The_DarthMoogle]

I got a $20 graphics card for christmas. But it has 1G of ram, and a very good speed, not to mention sound processing on a graphics card. Yes, $20, that's not a typo.

What make is it?

[Cheap Shot]

There is another thread exactly like this and it also got derailed into an alienware and dell debate.

[Maximus930]

What make is it?

Sorry, haven't been on in a while, so I didn't see this. I forgot what make it is, but it runs direct x 11 (my old one only did 10), and my graphics have jumped from very low to high, so it's much better.

[The_DarthMoogle]

For $20, that sounds incredible. Too incredible for my liking, but hey.

[Sacrieur]

No, if it's $20 retail it's crap. Worse than crap. Monkeys could use an etch and sketch to draw frames faster.

[dragonshardz]

I got a $20 graphics card for christmas. But it has 1G of ram, and a very good speed, not to mention sound processing on a graphics card. Yes, $20, that's not a typo.

I find this hard to believe.

[Maximus930]

I found it hard to believe too, but, it works very well, and I've had no problems with it so far. You don't have to believe it, because it works for me and I like it.

[BurningCake]

I found it hard to believe too, but, it works very well, and I've had no problems with it so far. You don't have to believe it, because it works for me and I like it.

So. What black market did you get it from? Underground China Association? :3

[dragonshardz]

I found it hard to believe too, but, it works very well, and I've had no problems with it so far. You don't have to believe it, because it works for me and I like it.

So, what's the name? Model number? Serial number? Something so I can actually take a look at this thing?

[Maximus930]

Not a black market, micro center. I don't remember what the model or serial numbers are, I'll look at it later, but it works fine.