New PC Coming - What to put on it?



If you can get a small SSD drive for you operating system and other applications and a second HD for storage.
 
I would kill myself if I ordered a gateway, didnt get a computer with an SSD drive, got intel 2000 graphics? WTF is that? Do they make intel 2000 on the sandy bridge?

If you get a new computer build it yourself from NewEgg
Get a sandy fucking bridge or dont bother.
Get a SSD drive
Get a $125 graphics card
Get COD for some down time.

You could probably put a SSD drive in your 5 year old computer and it would be better then the new one you are ordering.
 
You might want to wait a couple of months, as Intel is coming out with a successor line of processors.. I think codenamed Ivy Bridge.
 
if you can get 2 small SSD drivers make RAID 0 with them they are not failing very often like HD drives anyway :) Put OS on them and paging file if OS is Windows. and Get big drive for data
 
You might want to wait a couple of months, as Intel is coming out with a successor line of processors.. I think codenamed Ivy Bridge.

Really? This is news to me, but I'm down

I would kill myself if I ordered a gateway, didnt get a computer with an SSD drive, got intel 2000 graphics? WTF is that? Do they make intel 2000 on the sandy bridge?

If you get a new computer build it yourself from NewEgg
Get a sandy fucking bridge or dont bother.
Get a SSD drive
Get a $125 graphics card
Get COD for some down time.

You could probably put a SSD drive in your 5 year old computer and it would be better then the new one you are ordering.

yeah, I'm definitely getting a SSD on my next PC
Good price but eh...Gateway?

At any rate, use Ninite.com to put that shit on faster.

Thanks for showing me ninite, this will definitely speed things up when installing software on my business PCS
 
Honestly newegg has some dope built pcs to check out.

I do video editing with adobe after effects,photoshop and illustrator so any of my pc's might look like a gamer machine but instead of pwning nubs on the interwebs I'm designing ish to outrank them on the serps.
 
I'm also in the market for a new PC.. was actually gonna make a post but found this thread. Yay!

I bought a ready-made Gateway about 2 years ago and it was the biggest fucking mistake I ever made. Ever since day 1, this thing can barely handle shit. I cant play any video games on it (SC 2, CS: Source or even BF2 -- forget BF3), and every time I try to, it just shuts itself off. Also, it randomly turns itself off at randoms times and gives me blue screens or other fun goodies for absolutely no reason. Sometimes it wont load windows. Its a lot of fun!

The other day, I barely even managed to boot it up... I had to keep it turned off for like 2 hours before it decided to boot windows again.

So heres my question.. because im pretty retarded when it comes to computer hardware. I've heard people price shit out anywhere from $600 to $3,000. I don't think I need a fucking $3,000 computer just to play a few video games and run photoshop, etc. I want to spend about $1,000. Is that realistic? All I need is the tower, I have monitors and kb's and all that shit. I want to be able to play BF3 or SC2 on it, run photoshop in the background, and have firefox open with about 20 tabs without it fucking blowing up or giving me blue screens.

Any suggestions?
 
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I am currently waiting until April for Ivy Bridge to hit.

Got a nice machine specced out and will build it myself.

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if youre after a new machine online check out the dell factory outlet - end of line stuff passing through dirt cheap. keep checking it every day and you'll be surprised what you can get if you hunt about a bit.
 
Going to third the SSD suggestion. Put your OS and other programs you use often on it and use your other HD for the other stuff.
 
You are having good configurations on your system and price is also very low. My system is latest with all the latest softwares and configurations. My system has 5GB RAM and 500GB Hard Disk with i7 processor and Window 7 operating system but it cost me a litter higher.
 
It seems some people here don't value their time very highly if they want to build their own machine to save money?