New gaming computor

[desertrat]

Dell founder and Chairman Michael Dell, in a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, unveiled a $5,499 gaming computer featuring a liquid-and-ceramic cooling system to prevent overheating, a nod to the importance and profits of high-end video games, which demand power and graphics.

 

[Kerad]

$5,499?!?!?

Or you could get the 360, a hi-def LCD television, a new surround system and new couch...with enough left over to stock the fridge full of your favorite gaming beverages.

 

[Vince]

Or you could build yourself a good one for under $1000 :shrug:

 

[Floyd2004]

Or you could build yourself a good one for under $1000 :shrug:

I spent 1200 on a watercooled gaming PC just a month or two ago...that price includes wireless mouse and keyboard and 19" flat panel gaming monitor.

Dells blow in the long and short run...

 

[chess]

Dell founder and Chairman Michael Dell, in a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, unveiled a $5,499 gaming computer featuring a liquid-and-ceramic cooling system to prevent overheating, a nod to the importance and profits of high-end video games, which demand power and graphics.

rat you mean COMPUTER ?

 

[Vince]

I spent 1200 on a watercooled gaming PC just a month or two ago...that price includes wireless mouse and keyboard and 19" flat panel gaming monitor.

Bought or built?

 

[chess]

Or you could build yourself a good one for under $1000 :shrug:

vince is right... #### oem companies !

 

[chess]

Bought or built?

he built it

 

[desertrat]

rat you mean COMPUTER ?

I guess, thats what the article says.

 

[Floyd2004]

Bought or built?

Built by me... I think Chess has seen the awesome power of my PC before

 

[chess]

I guess, thats what the article says.

title says New gaming computor

so thats new way to spell it... its all good rat

 

[chess]

Built by me... I think Chess has seen the awesome power of my PC before

for some reason i havent seen it...

i use to build mine and still do but i dont care as much as i use too... i hate heatsinks and always will... hahaha

 

[desertrat]

title says New gaming computor

so thats new way to spell it... its all good rat

Ooopsie!

 

[Chain729]

[SNIP]
Dells blow in the long and short run...

Not if you're starting from scratch. Dell can sell low-normal level PC's w/software for about what you and I would pay for just the hardware. Trust me, I've priced it out and that's why I don't build computers on the side.

Now high end machines, like what you seem to have built, are a different story. Building what I want to replace SMP machine would cost over $2K and the only place I'd find that power and quality (things like CL 2.0 RAM apposed to CL 3.0, high buffers and low seek times on drives, RAID card, etc.) would be from a place like Alienware which would cost an arm and a leg.

 

[Chain729]

$5,499?!?!?

Or you could get the 360, a hi-def LCD television, a new surround system and new couch...with enough left over to stock the fridge full of your favorite gaming beverages.

Trust me, people will. I know a few off-hand.

 

[Floyd2004]

Now high end machines, like what you seem to have built, are a different story. Building what I want to replace SMP machine would cost over $2K and the only place I'd find that power and quality (things like CL 2.0 RAM apposed to CL 3.0, high buffers and low seek times on drives, RAID card, etc.) would be from a place like Alienware which would cost an arm and a leg.

Yea but most systems I looked at were lacking in all the areas that I wanted beefed up.

The ONLY place id buy a system would be Alienware but still their prices are horrible.

 

[desertrat]

Yea but most systems I looked at were lacking in all the areas that I wanted beefed up.

The ONLY place id buy a system would be Alienware but still their prices are horrible.

Not that this has much to do with anything, but your talk of building systems made me think of it. My son works for Intel out in OR. Every year they offer their employees a new processor as a bonus. I thought that was pretty cool. Also after 7 years, I think it was, they give them a 2 month vacation in addition to all their other vacation days, sick days etc. Are you listening CSC?

 

[Floyd2004]

hehe, well thats great but im not going to work for them for a free processer lol.

Im fine with my little OC'ed single core
I hate it when people think they need a dual core or a quad core... You might never use it unless you have applications that are setup for it.

Take gaming for example, a mild single core would yeld more speed then a high dollar dual core. Why? because most games dont utalize more than one core yet...

 

[Chain729]

Not that this has much to do with anything, but your talk of building systems made me think of it. My son works for Intel out in OR. Every year they offer their employees a new processor as a bonus. I thought that was pretty cool. Also after 7 years, I think it was, they give them a 2 month vacation in addition to all their other vacation days, sick days etc. Are you listening CSC?

CSC, as usual, will turn a deaf ear to their employees. The biggest reason most of us take the pay was because of the benefits. I wonder how much more slashing they'll do before people start looking elsewhere.

 

[Chain729]

hehe, well thats great but im not going to work for them for a free processer lol.

Im fine with my little OC'ed single core
I hate it when people think they need a dual core or a quad core... You might never use it unless you have applications that are setup for it.

Take gaming for example, a mild single core would yeld more speed then a high dollar dual core. Why? because most games dont utalize more than one core yet...

No, it wouldn't. It takes a moment for the second core/cpu to kick in, but it helps more than you realize. Some applications run on one, some run on the other. Both of my chips are only 1.6 GHz, but I can run things faster than a 2.4 or even 3.0 because I'm doing multiple things at once. Because of this, I can run games that supposedly require faster CPU's than I have, perfectly. I may not be using both processors directly for the game, but I am using both while playing the game.