bob4432
Lifer
- Sep 6, 2003
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what about the dell outlet? if you keep an eye out some good deals can be had their. imo, i would rather you get a amd system due to the fact that their cpus, atm are more efficient and offer more performnace per $$$, the problem is for $500 you a little on the low side for a build it yourself with gaming even in the near future. if you could do $700 then i think we could help assemble you a nice rig that would run the newer games at a decent fps.
to your other question - are they hard to build. no, not really, but there are times when things just don't work correctly or you may get a doa part. this can be discouraging for a beginner. as they say, sh!t happens. just last night i swapped out my p4/intel m/b with a opteron 144(the one ribbon13 recomended) & nf3 m/b and i thought from what i have read i could have just swapped out the equipment and all would be found since the os is pnp, along with other reasons. it didn't turn out that way and i had to do a full, new install. not that this was a big deal, but irritating none the less.
to your other question - are they hard to build. no, not really, but there are times when things just don't work correctly or you may get a doa part. this can be discouraging for a beginner. as they say, sh!t happens. just last night i swapped out my p4/intel m/b with a opteron 144(the one ribbon13 recomended) & nf3 m/b and i thought from what i have read i could have just swapped out the equipment and all would be found since the os is pnp, along with other reasons. it didn't turn out that way and i had to do a full, new install. not that this was a big deal, but irritating none the less.