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***June.H*** · 08-04-2009, 08:10 PM

I haven't done any real computer shopping for years (like, 1998), so I'm looking into either building or buying a new computer for general purposes of audio, video, browsing/office work, multi-tasking with a lot of various apps, and gaming. I'm already aware of most of the ups and downs, but what I'm looking for:

-Price next to quality; this thing is going to last me for years
-Intel, preferably Core i7 (unless someone can convince me otherwise, but not AMD)
-Looking into a nice GeForce card that doesn't suck (8800GT came to mind), do I need this SLI stuff?
-My price range is under $1000.
-I really can't migrate much from my old computers, esp. since my HDD's are all PATA, the only 7200RPM drives are Maxtor pieces of crap that continually fail and the RAM (PC2100) is far too old to reuse.

I know it's hard, but I've tried building a few computers online and have hit pretty darn close near that price range.

Any suggestions/help or ideal configurations? Thanks!!

08-04-2009, 08:10 PM	#1
*June.H* Doki! Doki! Doki! June.H is offline Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago-ish June.H's Collection Posts: 1,329 Marketplace Rating: 0	Help an old man (me) build a computer! I haven't done any real computer shopping for years (like, 1998), so I'm looking into either building or buying a new computer for general purposes of audio, video, browsing/office work, multi-tasking with a lot of various apps, and gaming. I'm already aware of most of the ups and downs, but what I'm looking for: -Price next to quality; this thing is going to last me for years -Intel, preferably Core i7 (unless someone can convince me otherwise, but not AMD) -Looking into a nice GeForce card that doesn't suck (8800GT came to mind), do I need this SLI stuff? -My price range is under $1000. -I really can't migrate much from my old computers, esp. since my HDD's are all PATA, the only 7200RPM drives are Maxtor pieces of crap that continually fail and the RAM (PC2100) is far too old to reuse. I know it's hard, but I've tried building a few computers online and have hit pretty darn close near that price range. Any suggestions/help or ideal configurations? Thanks!!