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1. Re: Customize Comp. vs Upgrading?

   

   Reply by Jesse Moody · Apr 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   The proc was slated for 1199. So yeah 1200 bucks. Not a huge difference between the non extreme version though. You might want to look into that if the price is a big difference. I have a dell xps notebook. I love this thing. I am gonna be tossing in 4 gigs of ram and a new core 2 duo chip this coming june / july. Then…

2. Re: Customize Comp. vs Upgrading?

   

   Reply by notman · Apr 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   Ditch the Dell. I don't agree with the $1200 estimate for a custom, unless you go high end on most of it. The reason I say go with custom is to get dual core. You Dell is still a pretty nice machine, but dual core can help with your rendering and if you do any sort of video editing.

3. Re: Customize Comp. vs Upgrading?

   

   Reply by notman · Apr 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   Here's an example btw... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115011 For $970 you can get a quad core that is just slightly slower than the 6800, but you save $300. I'd rather have my $300 than a sliver of speed that I'd probably never notice.

4. Re: Customize Comp. vs Upgrading?

   

   Reply by Sage · Apr 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   I have a friend at work that has money to burn. He bought a dell highend quad core and decided to only get 2 gigs of ram. Later decided he wanted to max it out the ram that is for no reason at all, since most of what he does is AIM and burn movies. I wish I was making this up. He got pretty pissed when he found out he had…

5. Re: Customize Comp. vs Upgrading?

   

   Reply by notman · Apr 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   I agree with Earthquake... step it down a few notches on the CPU and I'm sure you'll be just as happy, but probably spend about $500 less. Then again, if you can afford it and you can deal with the warp speed depreciation on it, then go for the uber CPU I also agree with runner about stepping down the RAM a bit. You can…

6. Re: Customize Comp. vs Upgrading?

   

   Reply by Richard Kain · Apr 2007 · Home› General Discussion

   I just dropped $500 on my rig. But I got a fairly large overhaul for that sum. I got a new motherboard, a new processor, a new power supply, new RAM, and a new video card. It's all lower-end brands (for the most part) but I'm actually quite satisfied with the performance I'm squeezing out of it. The motherboard is an Asus…