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Posted by: tod914 Oct 8 2004, 04:56 PM

There's alot comp. gurus here. Looking for a decent computer for home use/gaming under $1k with monitor.
Not sure which brand to get. Have a dell p400 with is still doing fine. Can any1 recommend a good manufacture?

Dell? Gateway???

Posted by: Lou W Oct 8 2004, 06:00 PM

I have a Dell Laptop for work and a HP Pavilion pc at home, very happy with the HP, bought from Circuit City about 8 months ago for about what you want to spend it has 2.08 GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor 512 mb DDR SDRAM 120 GB Hard Drive with CD-RW etc. we down load lots of pictures off our digital camera copy CD's etc. plenty of power and memory. Can play games etc. Very Happy with it

Posted by: davidcalvin Oct 8 2004, 06:36 PM

If you know someone with even minor skills, its cheaper to buy your own and assemble it with parts from Fries. My friend built me a top o the line system for 500 bucks (no monitor).

They even have "for dummies" books onrolling your own.

David

Posted by: Verruckt Oct 8 2004, 06:38 PM

I like to say that computers are like houses, get the best you can afford. You say you are going to use it for gaming, and have a budget of a grand. Some video cards will eat up half of your budget.

What games do you play? Are you a hard-core computer user, or just the occasional piddle around once or twice a week?

One suggestion I might give you is, and ive done this with most of my relatives. Go to a place like newegg.com and get a "bare bones kit". Then transfer your memory and hard drive, and cdrom over and you have a faster computer. Of course you will have to reload your Operating system again, but then that makes completely new. The money you will save will let you buy a bigger hard drive, dvd burner, jake raby engine, nickies, etc.

Posted by: bob91403 Oct 8 2004, 06:40 PM

No question. Buy a Mac. Oh, gaming, nevermind. Brand doesn't matter graphics card's important.

Posted by: davidcalvin Oct 8 2004, 06:42 PM

Bob,

Ordinarily I would agree with you...

Except he wants to play games and there are way more games available on the PC.

David

Posted by: bob91403 Oct 8 2004, 06:53 PM

Yeah, I saw that and edited. They're right about building it yourself. If you just want more power and performance, and the case you have now will accept it, you can get a new motherboard, and a high performance graphics card, pull the old ones (wear a ground strap) and pop in the new. You'll be good to go. Or, you can build a new one from scratch. All it takes is a screw driver, and someone who knows where things plug in. Not tough at all.