Best All-in-one Desktop PC

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tomfordham

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I have a budget of about $1,500 - 2,000 for a new desktop PC. I'm not that into building PC's, and I need a new one asap so I'm going to get something that's pre-built.

I was thinking about an all-in-one desktop cause I think they look smart and I'll mainly be using it for gaming, watchin movies, going on the internet, downloading etc, but I have a couple of questions:

Firstly, are All-in-one desktops actaully any good?
Second, if they are, whats the best I can get for my budget?
Is something like the HP TouchSmart PC / Display (IQ770) or the Sony VAIO All-in-One Desktop PC (VGC-LS25E) worth the money?

Any opinions would be great, I'm fairly lost atm!!
 
They're most definitely small and will save space, as far as performace, I don't really know, it'll depend on the specs, it could have great components in it, then again, they could be terrible.

I don't see there being much chance to upgrade it though as they are very small.
 
You have a fantastic budget there...don't waste it on a pre-built machine.

please!! we will help u build
 
Scooter speaks the truth! If it must be prebuilt might I recommend an iMac? Yeah, I know you said PC... but you might want to look into it if you have not already.
 
Pay someone to assemble a system for you. If you don't know anyone who can do it, pay someone on this forum who has experience with doing it. I am sure someone would be willing. With $1000 you can get an awesome computer system custom built just for you.
 
as said, these days local computer shops just overprice putting together a system, I am sure if you spend a couple hours you could find out how to build your own and save 200-300 or more dollars that a shop would charge for labor. Trust me either pay someone online to do it as they are usually way cheaper, or build one yourself. You can get a beast of a pc with that kind of budget no kidding. Even a prebuilt desktop will be a beast with that kind of budget.
 
i made a cart on newegg.com for 1700 dollars and it was amazing!!! but i made the same computer on dell.com(customized one) and it was 2800. big difference eh. BUILD
 
Yeah, computer shops are gonna overprice custom builds and mainstream companies (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, ets) are gonna overprice them even more. For example, the rig in my sig cost about $200, as opposed to $410 that I'd be paying for an HP rig which would give a good deal less performance... and you're only gonna notice more of a difference as they get more expensive.

Also, there's a lot less components that you have to worry about in self building than you may think... basically you buy a mainboard or motherboard (that's the main circuit board that everything else attaches to), then you have to get a power supply unit or PSU which plugs into the motherboard and powers the motherboard and everything that's plugged into it. Of course there's also the CPU, or computer processing unit, which basically is the brains of the computer. Then there's memory (commonly called RAM or random access memory) and a GPU or graphics processing unit which processess graphics (for games, 3D rendering, and such.)

So basically there are five parts that go into your case to make a computer... if you've got an old computer laying around that does nothing useful you could always try taking it apart and building it again to decide if you want to self build.
 
It's hard to game with all-in-one PC's as they use mostly laptop components. Even the best HP all-in-one PC only has a 9600M GS. I don't know what type of gaming you're into, but that card just doesn't belong in a $2000 PC.
 
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