Advice on Buying a Computer!!!

[The_Dunadan]

my dell is sweet and i have no trouble with it! dells are awesome! i got the dimension 8200. if you get maximumpc they reviewed it last issue and loved it. dells are one of the better prebuilt pcs, not to be compared with compaq or gateway!

(sorry, i had to defend my pc)

[gekko]

I have a Dell and it sucks ass. Top of the line model, take it home and it has problems. Their customer support sucks major ass, and i spent hours on the phone each time i talked to the clueless bastards. Then they replaced every single part in my PC, but would not replace the whole thing. Ok, so not every part, only 3 sticks of RAM, the video card twice, the motherboard, the processor, the sound card, the DVD drive, and a couple other things.

Not to mention Dell has a their own motherboard, so don't expect to upgrade it, and all problems must be dealt with by Dell.

[quiet mike]

Originally posted by gekko


Also, the whole build your own PC and save money is a bit misleading. Most of the people saving big time cash are the ones who use a ton of parts from their old PC, and the ones who buy cheapo P4 cards like the 1.6a which have the potential to be overclocked to 2.4ghz.

Look at my computer, if i were to build it, i'd be saving at most $200, but probably less than that. Why? I got all new parts. Now if I kept a monitor, bought a 1.6a P4 and overclocked it instead of the 2.53ghz, etc., I could've saved thousands.

Well you are right that you don't save at the time you build it first time. The thing about self-built computers is that you can keep it up to pace by building it smartly, and then just getting a few upgrades and make it last for a very long time, as much as buying 3 prebuilt computers.