Hey I'm getting a new computer at the end of the semester, I think my price range would be $1000-$1500 suggestions?

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Hey I'm getting a new computer at the end of the semester, I think my price range would be $1000-$1500 suggestions?</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>If you don't want to build it yourself, I'd go with Dell.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Alienware! Just kidding!</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Build it yourself, and for the love of God, get AMD</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>you can easily build it buying parts from newegg or TigerDirect...OR you could get a shuttle PC-- those things are awesome for LAN parties.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>AMD?</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Nah no Lan Parties for me. ;p</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>What about Gateway?</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Bitch, of all people I expect the most out of you! :P</div>

[Cranky McCrankyson]

<div style='font: 14pt ; text-align: left; '>AMD Athlon and not Intel Pentium. AMD runs just as fast (maybe faster, depends on who you talk to) and are crazy cheaper.</div>

[Cranky McCrankyson]

<div style='font: 14pt ; text-align: left; '>my parents get Gateways and have never had any problems with them at all. I've tinkered with them and i think they are built quite well. Along the same line as Dell and much better than Compaq/HP, Emachine, and the like.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>What everyone else said. If you don't want to build it yourself, buy a Dell.</div>

[Cranky McCrankyson]

<div style='font: 14pt ; text-align: left; '>If you really want to go with a place who puts the things together for you (pussy) then check out ibuypower.com</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Gateways are the devil!</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Gateway isn't turning a profit anymore. They're customer service isn't as good. (This is according to one of the sysadmins in the department here. The department now only gets Dell.)</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>eMachine: If you can get your PC in the same store that you can buy groceries, it's probably not a good buy.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>yeah but how cool is it to have a computer tower the size of a gamecube???</div>

[Cranky McCrankyson]

<div style='font: 14pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://us.shuttle.com/specs_access.asp? ... _id=279</a>

Not very cool when you need something like a parallel port for a printer.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>pshh, everything's USB these days</div>

[Do you know chocolate pud]

<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>It's safe if you go with a dell. I'm using one right now, but wait and see if they'll let you replace your monitor with an LCD. The one I have is an 18" one, and it's so fucking sweet!</div>

[Tortolia]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Just make sure you have adequate cooling, AMDs can and do run hot.</div>

[Cranky McCrankyson]

<div style='font: 14pt ; text-align: left; '>The fan that comes with the chip with a case that has no case fans works fine if you dont over clock. I have an Athlon XP 1800 tweaked so it runs like an XP 2000 with the stock CPU heatsink/fan and only a couple small case fans and the temperatures are fine.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>2nd case fan and a nice heat sink at the least</div>

[Oracle]

<div style='font: bold 10pt ; text-align: left; '>What I bought was the SN41G2 that you can find on www.shuttle.com.

SN41G2 FN41 nForce2 Mobo
AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton CPU (these are cheap as DIRT, and a good chip to boot, but Im waiting for the 3200+ to drop in price atm).
1GB Corsair Value Select RAM (PC3200, CAS 2.5)
Seagate 120GB HD 7200RPM w/ 8mb buffer
Some DVD/CD-RW combo drive
Samsung 152s 15" LCD screen (15" viewable that is)
And I just picked up an ATI Radeon 9800SE (256bit) video card.

I bought the systems all at the same time in August besides the video card. The system has onboard GF4 MX graphics, which really is quite good for onboard graphics and ran any game I tossed at it well (DAoC, Battle Field 1942, Warcraft 3, etc.).

All together for the Shuttle, CPU, RAM, Hard Drive, Screen, Combo Drive, Keyboard/mouse and a carrying case it cost me around $1600 canadian (which is around $1200 USD atm). Toss in another 200-300 US for a good video card and you are in your price range.

The only thing you have to take into account with Shuttle's is you can't leave them on for a week straight at a time. Well, I've never tried, but its cooled by heat pipes with one fan on the back cooling the grid it uses to get rid of the heat, and then the power supply fan. The hard drive doesn't get any airflow. I just turn the thing off when I'm asleep, or if I'm doing some heavy downloading I put it in standby mode and leave it on. It DOES run warmer than a normal PC, but WELL within the safety range of the chip (mine runs at around 46 Celcius full load, I have the same chip in a full PC and it runs at around 34 Celcius).</div>

[Oracle]

<div style='font: bold 10pt ; text-align: left; '>Btw the site I got it from is www.ncix.com. ITs canadian, but deals with US I think. Even if you don't buy from there ( and I wouldnt if I was in the US ) you can look at parts to get an idea of what there is out there and what prices are like now.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>do you have a little carry case for it?</div>

[Oracle]

<div style='font: bold 10pt ; text-align: left; '>I think I mentioned it above, but yea I bought a case for it too.</div>