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May 18th, 2004, 05:25 PM
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Re: OT: Worst PC Decision
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May 18th, 2004, 05:33 PM
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Re: OT: Worst PC Decision
NOOOOOOO Not that! I will telll you everything I know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhh
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May 18th, 2004, 05:35 PM
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You can tell the guy in the cartoon works for human resources... 
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May 18th, 2004, 06:36 PM
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Re: OT: Worst PC Decision
The best way to have a build your own computer is like i do: I'm a lawyer but my hobbie is dismantling computers, so i made a deal with the rest of the people in my office (other lawyers): every time they wish to upgrade their computers i would do the upgrade for them (installing the new Boards, etc.)in echange for the old Boards, etc..
So i have lots of old Boards, memories, etc, and i have actually 3 computers, 1 at the office: 750mhz, 128mb Ram, HD 40GB, and 2 at home: 1.2ghz, 256mb Ram, HD 60mb, Geforce 2 and a 650mhz, 128mb Ram, HD 1.2mb (yes, i know, i'm waiting for someone to upgrade his HD so i can get a better one).
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May 18th, 2004, 07:29 PM
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Atrocities, just read your story. That's why I don't build my own computers. I'd rather buy a already made one at an electronics store, or in the case of my current computer, have someone else build it. In this case, it's my wife's cousin-in-law. If I can ever come up with the extra dough, I'll have him upgrade it, especially the graphics card. I want to play Knights of the Old Republic, but can't.
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May 18th, 2004, 07:55 PM
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Greg, when you do update your graphics card, I strongly recommend that you go with the best card on the market. Video cards are changing and so are the programs that use them. The video card I just bought for $240.00 GeForce FX 5700 Ultra is already grossly outdated and considered as a medium card now.
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May 18th, 2004, 09:08 PM
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I recommend that you do NOT go with the best card on the market... unless you have a huge amount of money to waste... in which case it would be better that you send the excess my way.  You can get a card that costs 1/2 to 1/3 as much, and still does everything necessary to run today's high end games as well as tomorrow's. You do not need to spend an arm and a leg to buy hardware that will cost half as much in a month... the differences between the high end and medium end graphics cards are rather negligible at this point in time... |
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