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New desktop computer....any advice?
myseps:
I have always been a mac guy (and still am).. but i picked up a PC for gaming from this website:
http://www.ibuypower.com/
You can customize the PC to fit your needs, and the performance of it will blow away anything you can get from Staples or Best Buy.
Highly Recommended.
blue moon:
--- Quote from: mk162 on February 10, 2012, 01:56:57 PM ---Talk to Pierre, he tipped me off to the greatest computer in the world...well, nearly.
--- End quote ---
that's right Brad bought one! Ask him, ask him!
They are heavy duty workstations with wider bus and more stable chipset. I normally run at least 20 windows open at the same time and it just does not care. Some of the photoshop files I work with are over 500MB in size and with cashing it will go over 2GB. Everything still moves instantaneously, no waiting. The one in above link is almost identical to what I have.
bang for the buck it just does not get any better (I've sold hundreds of IBM's workstations when I was their business partner in my previous life). I would say a high end Mac might have a slight, very slight edge, but considering you'd have to pay 10x as much, there is no comparison.
pierre
GraphicDisorder:
Just build yourself one. Very easy to do. just built a BAD ASS RIG.
i7 2600k (3.4ghz)
32gb (yes 32 GIGS) of DDR3
240gb SSD Sata III
1.5TB Western Digital Black Sata III
GTX 560
Corsair Power Supply
DVD Drive
Cooler Master Case.
Sucker is a rocket.
If you are into designing and are serious about it you need 3 things.... LOTS of ram. FAST hard drives. Good graphics card.
blue moon:
--- Quote from: GraphicDisorder on February 10, 2012, 02:17:04 PM ---Just build yourself one. Very easy to do. just built a BAD ASS RIG.
i7 2600k (3.4ghz)
32gb (yes 32 GIGS) of DDR3
240gb SSD Sata III
1.5TB Western Digital Black Sata III
GTX 560
Corsair Power Supply
DVD Drive
Cooler Master Case.
Sucker is a rocket.
If you are into designing and are serious about it you need 3 things.... LOTS of ram. FAST hard drives. Good graphics card.
--- End quote ---
If you do build yourself, look into workstation motherboards. Intel used to make good stuff. As mentioned, they run faster, are more reliable and use ECC (error correction and checking) memory.
pierre
mk162:
Sam, the PC world can keep up, but a $800 Best Buy computer can't compete against a $5,000 MAC. It just isn't going to happen. The thinkstation is the only system in the shop that actually works like a computer should. There is ZERO lag on that thing.
It's impossible to compare a cheap out of the box system to a Thinkstation. It's all I will buy anymore...period.
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