your orders have been completed sir.Trading_Zoner

This might apply more to people living in the United states

Do you approve of your president, George W Bush, overall policies?

[QUOTE="diemensioncorp"]

well, of cource the laws of physics say that christianity is right

right?

MattUD1

well, of cource the laws of physics say that christianity is right

right?

what the hell was that?

go straigt dammit!

Having built many computers in my day (I did it for a living for a while), I can't understand what the big deal about it is. Yeah, its fun the first couple of machines you build, but it is just so much easier to fork over the money and get your comp. handed to you. No matter what people say, if you look around for a while and weigh your options you can't save that much money.

For Example:

My Prebuilt - little over 4 grand - shipping; 2 year in house warranty; G5 Mouse: & T-shirt (a $20 value!)

 

Single parts from New Egg: (I know all are not best possible price)

QX6700 - $970 (not overclocked; you kind of have to know what you're doing)

Sound Card - $89

MoBo - $260

Hard Drive - $200

1000 W PSU - $250 (Couldn't even find one New Egg)

8800 GTX - $559

Vista home Premium - $110

Liquid cooling - $100 (A pain to install)

RAM - $300

DVD Drive - $40

Lighting - $30

Case - Maybe $150

G5 gaming mouse - $60

Odds and Ends - $20

 

Subtotal - $3138

+243.04 tax (at 8%

+shipping (possibly on every part) 100?

= $3,481.04

 

Keep in mind, this includes no construction, which gets a little more worrisome when you have $3500 you can mess up. When you also factor my 2 year in house warranty/maintenance (can't be underrated), and Alienware bragging rights, it doesn't seem too much different to me.

How about you?

PC-junkie

Last time I checked, 600 dollars was quite a lot of money

Do you have a DSL modem? cuz Im pretty sure that they have USB cables as well as ethernet cables. So, you can go onto the internet without needing the Ethernet controllers

Second, in the boot device priority, set it to the CD drive, and insert the WinXP disk inside the CD-ROM drive. you should be able to format your hard drive from there

local PC shops might be a good deal when you first buy a computer, but when you want to fix the problem, they are such ripoffs. For instance, a power surge fried 3 of my Dial-up modems right? so we went to get some new modems installed, and he charged over 400 dollars!!! I could've fixed those problems for about 20$