Looking into buying a computer, could you help please?

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luke774

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Hey everyone! Last week my computer fried and I can't get it to boot back up. Now, I'm looking into buying a new computer or laptop possibly. The budget I'm looking for is under $500. Some of the things I'm interested in are...

Video editing / Special effects
Gaming
Burning Movies
Blu Ray?

I have been looking online thinking that I will get better prices... Are bestbuy and walmart bad choices? I recently went to Newegg.com and found these two computers that looked appealing.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...82E16883229091R

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...82E16883227130R EDIT : they sold out of those already :( I guess I shouldn't have waited.

Are these good computers? I'm open to any suggestions and thanks so much for your help!
 
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luke774

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Blah, links don't work cause I guess they sold out lastnight. Does anyone have any suggestions of computers I could look into ? Thanks :)
 
bomberboysk

bomberboysk

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luke774 said:
Blah, links don't work cause I guess they sold out lastnight. Does anyone have any suggestions of computers I could look into ? Thanks :)
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Your links are broken, as in they arent copied correctly. What kind of price range were you looking into?
 
bomberboysk

bomberboysk

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luke774 said:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4559646&CatId=114

Ok this was the one I saw on newegg. Or atleast it was extremely similar, the problem is on newegg it was only $370, are there any other computers like this but that are less expensive? I can't say it too much thanks again for the help guys :)
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For gaming...$500 is a tough budget for prebuilds, because they usually use pretty low quality power supplies/etc. Would you be comfortable in building your own perhaps?
 
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luke774

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Ya I thought about that except I have never built one on my own, can anything go catastrophically wrong with building your own computer? If I can get a higher quality computer for cheaper just for putting it together myself it would be great.
 
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luke774

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All I need is the tower, thank you so much man. If you could just get me a list of stuff I should buy that would be amazing :)
 
bomberboysk

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ODD: (Out of stock atm..newegg has almost no optical drives in stock right now)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827140038

Case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119203

HDD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136098

Mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131381

PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817189014

Memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122

CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...Details.aspx?ItemList=Combo.205094.14-127-420
Now...If you already have an OS like vista or have something like XP that you want to use until windows 7 comes out, you could add in some better parts;)
 
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luke774

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bomberboysk said:
ODD: (Out of stock atm..newegg has almost no optical drives in stock right now)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827140038

Case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119203

HDD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136098

Mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131381

PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817189014

Memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122

CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...Details.aspx?ItemList=Combo.205094.14-127-420
Now...If you already have an OS like vista or have something like XP that you want to use until windows 7 comes out, you could add in some better parts;)
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Looking good man, the last link is broken, and where is the graphics card? Also, would it be possible if I could talk to you on msn or something? It would be a lot easier :p. My email is [email protected]

Thank you so much man.
 
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luke774

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What kind of games do you think I would be able to run with this build? I have some DDR2 ram in my old computer, would I be able to put it in this one? Would the same apply for my old computers disc drives? I added you on msn but you haven't signed on yet :p
 
bomberboysk

bomberboysk

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luke774 said:
What kind of games do you think I would be able to run with this build? I have some DDR2 ram in my old computer, would I be able to put it in this one? Would the same apply for my old computers disc drives? I added you on msn but you haven't signed on yet :p
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With a 4830, you should be able to play alot of games with decent settings, crysis will run at medium or so settings probably, can max cod4/cod5 depending on the res you play at. Very similar in performance to that of a 9800gt/8800gt.
 
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luke774

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bomberboysk said:
With a 4830, you should be able to play alot of games with decent settings, crysis will run at medium or so settings probably, can max cod4/cod5 depending on the res you play at. Very similar in performance to that of a 9800gt/8800gt.
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Great, thanks! So that's all the stuff I need? If I order all of those I will have all the components for building a PC including Vista?
 
bomberboysk

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Hmm, appears as if my link for the 7750 didnt copy right. You need a cpu, such as this: (original link didnt copy) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103253

Lemme get you a quick revised list since the optical drive is deactivated also;) Do you already have an optical drive? If you do that could be eliminated and used towards a couple slightly better parts.

HDD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136098

GPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127414

PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817189014

Memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227267

Mobo+CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.211678

Case+OS:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.205088.11-119-203

$557.93 Before rebates/$517.93 after rebates

If you need an optical drive:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10010593
 
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