Your better off pulling down the specs you want on iBuyPower and then shopping around for the best deal and finding a company that exclusively makes custom cases, if you want it to be super sexy... Don't go for prefab, you are only hurting yourself in the end... (Gaming Rigs only) Most prefab computers have the lowest quality hardware possible wrapped in a pretty shell with a logo slapped on top so they can make %800 profit on the unsuspecting consumer... Save yourself the headache and embarrassment If you just want an out of the box, email, internet, inbrowser games and maybe even some MC, go buy a nice $200-300 desktop rig at newegg.com and be happy.
You have to really enjoy the OS X environment to jump onto the Mac side of the fence... I do, which is why I exclusively use my iMac for my computing needs.
I run Minecraft on full settings with mods (Water shadier) on my PC (£534 total costs) home made PC and Minecraft runs about 124FPS (without water shadier) and about 56 with it on this was probibly the best buy of my life my family has 2 of these in the house one with 16GB ram and mine with 8GB with an extra 1GB slot thing (Dunno what its called) its on AMD but its better than the un-locked Intels i7's cores so you get how good it is and as copherfield said its best not to go with a brand because in my past experience with Dell I just want to throttle the owner ... I am planning on getting a new PC soon but i could just do up the one I have
Hey look that looks like my computer. Except mine is blue and has a blue neon light in it though. I got mine from ibuypower. I could have put it together myself (I have more then enough experience for it) but I am just kinda lazy and so yeah. I looked around for one of the best computer screen I could find, and some logitech G9 mouse and G15 keyboard. I topped it off with one of the best speaker systems being the Logitech Z-2300 THX-certified 2.1 speaker system with subwoffer. I spent about 2 grand in total for all of it. This however was 4 years ago so its probaby only worth 1 grand nowadays the way computers are. My specs right now are: Case: Nzxt Guardian 921 w/ Nvidia Side window Case Lighting: Cold Cathode Neon Light Blue Power Supply: 800 Watt Processor: (New) Intel Core i7 920 Processor Processor Cooling: XIGMATEK Dark Knight 120mm CPU cooling Fan system (Heat-pipe direct touch) Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Intel x58 Memory: 6GB's [2 GB x 3] Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB Hard Drive: 1TB Hard drive CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive: LG 22x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD+R/+RW + CD-R/RW Drive Black Speaker System: Logitech Z-2300 2.1 Monitor: Acer 22" HDMI compatable Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard Mouse 1: Logitech G9 Gaming mouse Mouse 2: Nzxt Avatar gaming mouse Flash Media Reader/Writer: 12 in 1 Internal Flash Media Card reader/writer Black Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit Software Games: Crysis Maximum Edition, Crysis 2 limited Edition, Halo 2, ect Overall cost: about 2 grand Enjoyment from having a kick-*** gaming computer: Priceless! There are some things money can't buy. For everything else choose actual money! But im upgrading the ram sometime soon when it goes down in price, and upgrading my video graphics card to AMD HD 6970 2GB. However, the one I want is out of stock and expensive right now. About $450 which it used to be down to around 300-400. Other then that, idk what else I could improve on it. Any new graphics cards after the one I want wont even fit in my case cause the new ones are to long. Oh and btw I saved up for that back 4 years ago. And I take really good care of my computers (like take them out twice a year to use compressed air and clean out all the dust). So I figured I would get a really good one instead of some junky one at the time. My previous computer. A really old dell computer that had at most windows xp on it I kept it running for 8 years without any troubles and no needing to upgrade to play most games. And it was already at least 4 years old when I got that one from ebay for like 400 bucks.
My iMac specs for those who are interested in comparing. Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac10,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz Intel High Definition Audio (Builtin) Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 2.4.5f3 Built in SD Card Reader HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA11N: Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive) Cache: 2048 KB Reads DVD: Yes CD-Write: -R, -RW DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO Type: Ethernet Controller Bus: PCI FireWire Bus: Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4670 Type: GPU Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 256 MB Displays: iMac: Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Built-In: Yes BANK 0/DIMM0 - empty BANK 1/DIMM0 - empty BANK 0/DIMM1: Size: 2 GB Type: DDR3 Speed: 1067 MHz BANK 1/DIMM1: Size: 2 GB Type: DDR3 Speed: 1067 MHz Serial ATA NVidia MCP79 AHCI: Vendor: NVidia Product: MCP79 AHCI Link Speed: 3 Gigabit Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit Description: AHCI Version 1.20 Supported I get a solid 60 fps with Fancy/Far using Wyukian Texture Pack. If I use Default, Fast/Short I can hover ~200 fps.
I prefer un-locked will un programmed processors because you can squeeze all the stuff it has to offer out of it. but is hard to get in the first place :/
macs are expensive because its made by apple and in my opinion apple is one of the most money greedy companies EVER.
and it costs apple $10 for the parts for an iPhone 4 but then their are the other costs too but still xD
not to mention if ANYTHING happens to it even if its their fault u have to pay a fee to get there help i was like WTF really ps: WTF = WHAT THE FUDGE
I truly do find all of this REALLY interesting. I want to learn as much about it as possible. Maybe I'll major in some type of computer technology or something. I like it a lot.
I learned all of the things I know about computers from trial and error and a whole lot of internet surfing back when having a WebTV was awesome........
lol - Look it up on wiki.. It was one of the first generation TV "computer" boxes made. They then went on to make MSN TV and then Google TV but now you can just buy a smart TV.... OMG It is still around!! http://www.webtv.com/pc/
