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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
This will be my college work computer, first year it will be mostly word processing and audio editing for my personal recordings. Later on it may be used for video and picture editing/production.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
$1000-$1700
3) Where do you live?
Dallas Texas
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be
A computer (I.E. everything)
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific
N/A
6) Will you be overclocking?
Nope
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
>=1920x1080
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Within the next 2-3 months
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
Raid most likely, firewire a must, crossfire/sli not so much.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
Currently i only have an XP disk but will soon be buying a Win7 Ultimate disk.
Like i said in #1, this is going to be my college work computer. It wont spend much time on the internet to avoid virus's and would be doing audio recording/editing and some video production/editing.
My first thoughts were to a Mac, i have worked on them before and they have been great and stable unlike some PC's i did projects on which crashed in the middle of working. But i cant commit to buying a Mac because of the price. Mac's seem so expensive for what you get (2k for an i7 rig with only 4gig mem? ok.)
Although i have looked into getting older model Mac's. You can get the 24" with almost loaded spec's for around $1200
I have also kicked around the idea of just building my own workstation PC. I bench raced an AMD and Intel rig that both came to about 1500$. But then i run into Windows being stable for working on projects?. I do not currently know how Win 7 does stability wise.
Anyway, what is the forum's thoughts?
This will be my college work computer, first year it will be mostly word processing and audio editing for my personal recordings. Later on it may be used for video and picture editing/production.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
$1000-$1700
3) Where do you live?
Dallas Texas
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be
A computer (I.E. everything)
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific
N/A
6) Will you be overclocking?
Nope
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
>=1920x1080
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Within the next 2-3 months
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
Raid most likely, firewire a must, crossfire/sli not so much.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
Currently i only have an XP disk but will soon be buying a Win7 Ultimate disk.
Like i said in #1, this is going to be my college work computer. It wont spend much time on the internet to avoid virus's and would be doing audio recording/editing and some video production/editing.
My first thoughts were to a Mac, i have worked on them before and they have been great and stable unlike some PC's i did projects on which crashed in the middle of working. But i cant commit to buying a Mac because of the price. Mac's seem so expensive for what you get (2k for an i7 rig with only 4gig mem? ok.)
Although i have looked into getting older model Mac's. You can get the 24" with almost loaded spec's for around $1200
I have also kicked around the idea of just building my own workstation PC. I bench raced an AMD and Intel rig that both came to about 1500$. But then i run into Windows being stable for working on projects?. I do not currently know how Win 7 does stability wise.
Anyway, what is the forum's thoughts?
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