Desktop Recommendations

Grumpy

Grumpy

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Okay..looking to get a new desktop(tower preferred). Looks like everything is a la carte, so I guess that means keyboard, mouse, box and monitor are all separately priced. Got $1500...gimme some suggestions. Want a quick machine, large HD/storage with a decent monitor (24"), probably speakers too. I'm too lazy to research myself :)
 
NextJen

NextJen

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My daughter sent me a pic of what she just built. Shall I ask her some specs?
 

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Kyle

Kyle

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Grumpy said:
Okay..looking to get a new desktop(tower preferred). Looks like everything is a la carte, so I guess that means keyboard, mouse, box and monitor are all separately priced. Got $1500...gimme some suggestions. Want a quick machine, large HD/storage with a decent monitor (24"), probably speakers too. I'm too lazy to research myself :)
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I’m about a year and a half to two years away from replacing mine as well. I would take a look at what Dell has on their configuration site. Look for something with a solid-state hard drive in combination with sata hard drive.

With the OS on the solid state it’ll be lightning fast.
 
GURPS

GURPS

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Grumpy said:
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Gaming is vastly different ... as well as the games you play

$ 1500 does not buy a lot of power these ........


My last home built was about $ 2200 for the box ...... I reused previous 3 24 inch displays


Core i7 - 8700K
GTX 1070
32 Gb RAM
256 Gb NVMe SSD - Boot Drive

3 Dell 24 Inch LCD Displays





Alienware Gaming | Dell USA

Industry leading innovators, Alienware, manufactures the best gaming laptops & desktops that provide users with immersive and exhilarating gaming experience.
www.dell.com www.dell.com
 
Grumpy

Grumpy

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GURPS said:
Gaming is vastly different ... as well as the games you play


$ 1500 does not buy a lot of power these ........ my last home built was about $ 2200 for the box ...... I reused previous 3 24 inch displays


Alienware Gaming | Dell USA

Industry leading innovators, Alienware, manufactures the best gaming laptops & desktops that provide users with immersive and exhilarating gaming experience.
www.dell.com www.dell.com
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I don't do any interactive gaming so I probably don't need super quick
 
GURPS

GURPS

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Grumpy said:
I don't do any interactive gaming so I probably don't need super quick
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OK so a basic desktop would probably suit you ... I always recommend ' business ' class machine they are more robust ... sure any pc can go 5 - 7 years


Dell - Optiplex
HP - Elite Desktops

I've only supported these professionally



don't pay the OEM for extra RAM, buy it from Crucial or Amazon and install it yourself RAM is the single biggest item to making your system faster

.... but I tend to go over board .. my last 3 desktops had 32 gb ... my next one will have 64 ...

At work our business laptops have 16 gb the Dell Precision's have 32 .. but then they run CAD Applications
 
Kyle

Kyle

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GURPS said:
OK so a basic desktop would probably suit you ... I always recommend ' business ' class machine they are more robust ... sure any pc can go 5 - 7 years


Dell - Optiplex
HP - Elite Desktops

I've only supported these professionally
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I’ve always dealt with the OptiPlex at work, and bought XPS for personal.

Over the years I learned to avoid the Inspiron models. They only seem to have severe built-in limitations.
 
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Kyle

Kyle

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Yeah I just looked on the site at some of the XPSs. Price is really jumped over the last 10 years. OptiPlex might be a better bet.
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

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Don't get bogged down on making a decision based on disk size. In a lot of cases, it's cheaper and better to upsize the drives yourself. Get a good piece of hardware with a standard HDD and replace it with an SSD or NVMe drive of your choice.
 
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