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in market for a new custom computer....any other place to get one besides dell, gateway and alienware....it will used for storing movies, music, burning, digital pixs...looking for monitor and full tower.....
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HP, or build your own. For the love of mike, don't buy Gateway. And the Alienwares, while nice, are awfully expensive.
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cannot build my own....my brother gave it a try couple years ago and it has been a total disaster.......i have to take it to him every couple months for "fine tuning"..and now the half the fans are not working and the other half make too much noise...hence the need for a new one !!
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I read somewhere that Dell bought Alienware.
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Dell did buy alienware, but they are operating as different entities.
Alienware is profeting from Dell's buying power and cheap warehouse prices.
Anyways, how much are you looking to spend? I can hunt down some components or brands for what you need and what you want to spend. :-)
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about 3k including the monitor (hopefully 20 in flat screen digital) and speakers
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3 grand, man, what are you going to use it for? I just built a high end HTPC for under $800 bucks.
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and how exactly do you do that ?? i thought "good computers" cost around that much...i plan to use it mostly for surfing, burning, some gaming, digital pixs etc...
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5+ years ago retail desktops used to cost a lot more to purchase, that is why most people would build their own. Today, prices have come down a lot and you can buy a very very good system for $1000 or less. Heck good laptops don't even cost 3 grand these days.
Anyway, it is very easy to build a great system for under $800-1000 bucks as well. You just buy the parts from Newegg, Zipzoomfly, pcAlchemy, Directron, etc... and put it all togethor, no problem.
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I don't know about great system for $1000... mine cost me $1500 without the monitor, which should run you about $400 or so. Then again, I did buy that $165 case...
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