Need help buying a computer

[llamaboy772]

My computer sucks ***insert something here***! It's a emachines T2596 with a 60GB , 256mb of RAM and my graphics card is "Intel extreme graphics AGP". But the weird thing about it is that it has PCI slots that don't even work. Here is how crappy the video card is......I'm happy when I get 12 FPS when on halo's lowest settings! But thank god it's going to die in a couple of months because it's copasaters,(or what ever the best buy guy said) were rising. And I can't get a new computer cause I

[wes]

only in $600 range?

[jks]

I built my computer in the $1000 range, I sold my old computer to help alleviate costs so the net cost to me was only $700. Contact me on aim if you want help, my advice is to build your own.

[llamaboy772]

Building my own isn't a option because it cost to much, i got to buy a pre made one and add a video card to it. But yah $700 is i think as high as my mom will go for the bace computer w/o the video card.

[jks]

Buying a premade one is too expensive. I saved literally $1000 over this computer if I had bought a similar caliber system from a manufacturer. Building saves you money.

[imgettionowned]

who's rockin more than 2gb of ram?

[The_Hushed_Casket]

Buying a premade one is too expensive. I saved literally $1000 over this computer if I had bought a similar caliber system from a manufacturer. Building saves you money.

ditto
Building it saves you money if anything.
I think for the time being 1 GB is pretty comfortable for most uses.

[llamaboy772]

Yah but i don't know the first thing about building, and when i added together the cost of everything i needed once it was like $2000! And i don't think i can sell anything off my computer that anybody wants. And BTW what graphics card will get 30 FPS with highest settings on Chronopolis C3 Public Beta v0.2?

[a_marine]

Yeah building is the way to go for a desktop. But I'm pretty sure you can't build a laptop but correct me if I'm wrong. I like laptops because they can be wherever you are but usually desktops are more powerful. I don't think your going to find a cheap 600-700 dollar computer with a 3 gigahertz procesor. And the best buy dude said the capacitors were rising, those are fun to throw in fires and I got them to completely inflame a computer by reversing the flow of power to the motherboard/power supply.

[Patrickssj6]

Aehm building a cutom one is cheaper.In your case I would:
-keep old drives(Hardrive,Cd-Drive)

[a_marine]

Yeah if you have a good hd and a dvd writing drive I wouldn't exchange them (not that I would know if you have a dvd writing drive)

[wes]

just build your own comp ;P

who's rockin more than 2gb of ram?

i r

[Cuda]

Yea, building also can give you a learning experience, and you know what you got, from 1st hand, not from a book.

[a_marine]

Yeah our teacher showed us how to build computers, we had a contest to see who could blow up the most computers right after the lecture. I won : D I got 5 of the school computers to light on fire if someone turned them on. Nobody knew it was me expet the hosts of the contest.

[llamaboy772]

How much would building cost me?

[jks]

If you tell me what you want I cant find you excatly what you need.

[Kirk]

Well why bother telling you what he needs?

[jks]

You get your Mac advocacy out (>-_-)> out I say!

[llamaboy772]

I said before, i want at least 1gb of RAM and a fairly new video card, and a 400 watt PSU.

[imgettionowned]

well about a week back, a friend of mine was looking for a pc and he found a gateway on tigerdirect for $700 with a dual core 3 ghz processor, 1 gig of ram, decent video card and some other stuff.