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Im buying a new desktop computer

Post by 189351

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Post by ThyTempest

I suggest building one piecewise buying from a place like Newegg or TigerDirect. It is much cheap so you will be able to get a much better system for the same price, or cut your cost for something equitable to a retail like the link you posted. In addition, being able to choose your own parts mean you typically get

1) Higher quality- not always mass produced OEM stuff the big companies like HP, Dell , Toshiba etc, use for all of their systems.

2) Customized to what your computing needs are- ie, most retail are not GPU heavy, most are underpowered for gaming, even those marketed as gaming computers. This is the biggest difference apart from overall quality. Rather than paying $X to say "oooh I have a Dell XPS or Alienware", you can say "Ooooh I spent my $X on another video card to run in Crossfire/SLI and now my framerate is 150fps higher than yours, etc"

More info on customization means you get to pick your battles, which is kind of what I said before. For gaming, this typically means buying a longer-lasting more upper-end processor to last you through your build, not top of the line GPU for cost-efficiency (replace every year or two), and RAM according to game preferenes and other uses etc (ie-RAM is nice for wow b/c of all the addons)

3) Money saved means better peripherals like mice, keyboards, monitors, speakers, etc.

4) Your case will not be absolute crap, and will look pretty much however you want it.

5) UPGRADE! You can reuse your power supply, case, sometimes other components as well for your next build when yours is just to out of date to keep replacing components by the part. Even cheaper again.

Good luck. Also, if you are not comfortable with putting it together yourself, a lot of computer shops have a build fee of like 50 bucks if you supply parts. If you do this, check your hardware after the build, some places are not reputable and take your nice parts and give you crap stuff back. Get an invoice of parts, serial numbers etc before they build it so you have proof is something goes wrong.

Edit: To original question, PCIe x16 slots are the best, most mobos have 1 or 2. Integrated mobo sound is almost always sufficient, so I wouldnt worry about that. If you decide to go this route a great resource for compatability help, build advice and just general computer built stuff is Tomshardware.com

Post by Wikipedia

Probably, but why did you choose to post this in the UI & Macro forums? Why even on Wowhead at all?

You'd probably have to check what slots you have on that one, and then look for cards matching it.

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Post by pelf

UI&M is probably as close as you'd get here, but it's a bit more on the hardware side than we generally deal with. You might be better served posting or searching on a forum like the one at Anandtech or Hardocp.

Im buying a new desktop computer

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