Background: My parents computer is over three years old and its exceedingly painful to use when they boot up each morning it takes 5+ minutes, apps that launch in 2 seconds on my PC take a minute on theirs, etc. And its my fault. My dads computer died and he needed a new one immediately...
I have posted twice on [H]ardforum for advice on PC builds, and both times got excellent advice. I know next to nothing about Macs, but my girlfriend managed to break her MacBook Pro display, and it's kinda my fault, so I have to help her fix it. You see, I was at my desktop working, and I...
Last week I built a PC for a friend with a lot of help from people at [H]ardforum. Here is the build:
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1036262848&postcount=6
When I gave him the PC a week ago, it was working great. Windows cold boot-up was ~30 seconds, and shutdown was ~3 seconds. All...
Hi.
Several months ago I put up a post for a build for a friend of mine, but unfortunately he had to put off getting a new PC for reasons beyond his control. But now he has to put one together, and quickly, so I'm going to repost a slightly modified version.
1) What will you be doing with...
A friend of mine just called me asking for advice on getting a new PC. His "what are you doing with this PC?" and budget are very similar to this other build below, http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1517150, but with some key differences. BTW, I did one of these threads back in October for...
I just ordered the parts for my new system but the monitors I'm really on the fence about. They've given me the most trouble and I've spent the most time researching them. Actually, researching displays is how I found [Hard] Forum. However, I just went to the local Micro Center and actually...
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing?
This PC is primarily for work, as I work from home. For work, under maximum usage conditions, I have Outlook open, 8-10 Word docs, 1-2 IEs open, about 10 tabs in chrome, 2 excel spreadsheets and possibly more...