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Ok, I am 42 years old married with two children own a business in Oregon.
I love to fish and hunt mushrooms and most anything else outdoors. And as my name might indicate not so good when it comes to computers.

I need a new computer for my home. I need one that is ready to go, plug and play if you will. The family uses the computer for surfing and emails and ipods and I use it for gaming. Games like Call Of Duty and Halo. would also like a 24" monitor. I have about 2k for this give or take.

First of I know you must get pounded with this type of question. second thank you for taking the time to read this. If I could return the favor of knowledge I would but sadly I cant. I have been looking at the Dell's If i could piece one together I would but I cant so I wont.


Thank you for your time, Troy from Oregon
 
Well most people will tell you to build your own...although obviously if you don't know how, then that's going to be a problem.

As for brands...I don't know who to recommend...Dell or HP would be my top two recommendations.
 
So Halo and cod are easy to run games since there has been 3 more games in the series released since cod. Since your Computer " stupid " i would go with a prebuild computer. And For prebuilt computers i would go with a dell. http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/desktops?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs find one that fancys you and we could help suggest one. The XPS series are the gaming destops btw. And do you just walk around and find mushrooms? like? what you walk for km and km fine a mushroom and take it home? sounds silly.... lol well might be fun.
 
I'll build you a rig. I live in Sacramento. By this time next week, you can have a fully functioning gaming rig at your doorstep. If you're interested, email me. I'll give you all the details. You don't need to spend $2,000.

If you want an OEM machine, configure a Dell XPS, or, take a look at the HP Blackbird 002.
 
BluePlum, What state do you live in? I look for mushrooms almost year around. Mostly morels,chterells,king bolets, chicken of the woods,oysters and Oregon white truffles. There are a few more I look for. I like it because its just relaxing to walk in the woods looking for "treasure" It has taken many years to find area's and pin point the time's that they grow and different elevations also.

Please keep the ideas coming. I will e-mail mep916 today. Maybe I just need to buy a book and learn to do it myself???

I have all of the COD games, I also wanted to say this isn't just a gaming computer, it needs to work for the Wife also. Reliability is huge for me also.


Thank you very much for the info so far, take care, Troy
 
Microcenters sell a house brand called powerspec, which re generically built and at good price points. If you were to buy pre build I would recommend one of those. I used to work on those a lot back in the day and they were very good machines for your dollar.

Since they are generically built as well you don't get all that crappy bloated preinstalled software package either. Also, you can fit any retail computer part in them.

Or, if gaming were not a huge issue, I would say just get a Mac since they are easily, reliable, and solid. However, since you want to game, and gaming is still limited I would suggest you get a PC.

Check out your local microcenter for a powerspec computer. Perhaps buy one of those and upgrade a few parts on your own to get a feel for how they work, then next time build your own.
 
Do they have a book for building computers with the current products avalible ?

I am going to start leaning this way. I don't always have to be "computer stupid" Just happen to be that way now. Need to start changing that.
 
computer stupid said:
Do they have a book for building computers with the current products avalible ?

I am going to start leaning this way. I don't always have to be "computer stupid" Just happen to be that way now. Need to start changing that.
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In all honesty building a computer is quite easy. All it is, simply is assembling some parts in a case. Things are notched so they can only be up in one way or another and other parts fit in like legos.

The hardest part would be installing an OS, and even with today's modern OSes that would be not that hard.
 
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