New Computer: Affordable Power !!

[M.D. Vaden]

My old computer which our oldest son built for us, was showing symptoms of needing several hours fine-tuning, driver replacement and virus scan. So we decided to put the several hours into building a new computer.

Decided to splurge on this one - opcorn:

Anyhow, we went to a place called Fry's in Wilsonville, Oregon, to buy the components. It was surprising how many top brand components were on sale or affordable priced. It looks like computers - even the prebuilt ones - have reached the beginning of a sweet spot where performance computing is relatively inexpensive.

After seeing the night-light advantage from the transparent side panel of my younger son's case, I decided to go with the ALL-acrylic Danger Den case.

Didn't go too rediculous on components, but fairly substantial: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 MHz CPU, 4 GIG of Corsair RAM, high end video card and a 1000 GIG harddrive. Added my previous 160 GIG hard drive from the old case as a second drive, and the external My Book harddrive purchased last year.

This computer loads Software for programs so fast, it feels more like sitting and checking emails.

I almost bought a MAC.

There really were a lot of great prebuilt MACs and PCs with fine performance too.

 

[zirrow]

sharp looking pc. Fry's is an awsome electronics store; I wish we had one out here.

btw, great job not getting a Mac. There was a time it was a good piece of hardware, but now it's just a lot of flashy, over-priced parts.