Need to buy another puter

[rudedawg]

I need some feedback on buying a new computer for my office. I don't need the cutting edge technology so to speak. I want a 1.6ghz P4, 256mb sdram, 64 mb video card, 20 - 40 gb 7200 hard drive, windows XP with the Office Small Business, CD Burner, and a DVD ROM drive if it doesn't add to much.

I looked at Dell (best price so far), HP, Compaq, Gateway, and IBM. Anybody have good or bad reviews for any of these?

Thanks

 

[starfish]

I love my Sony....

 

[2 ton hoss]

I need some feedback on buying a new computer for my office. I don't need the cutting edge technology so to speak. I want a 1.6ghz P4, 256mb sdram, 64 mb video card, 20 - 40 gb 7200 hard drive, windows XP with the Office Small Business, CD Burner, and a DVD ROM drive if it doesn't add to much.

I looked at Dell (best price so far), HP, Compaq, Gateway, and IBM. Anybody have good or bad reviews for any of these?

Thanks

I GUARANTEE YOU WILL GET A BETTER PRICE IF YOU BUILD IT YOURSELF. IT IS PRETTY EASY TO DO AND THERE ARE A LOT OF SITES EXPLAINING HOW TO DO IT. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW HOURS! IF YOU WANT I CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS.

 

[Ingram]

Yeah build it yourself!

If you don't need your old comp, rip out usable stuff (cd-rom, floppy, network card, etc...) then grab some new parts and build. You should be able to put it together for under $700.

 

[TheProject]

I disagree. Don't build it yourself for use in a business. Businesses need greater reliability and availability, plus the convenience of one-stop support and warranty.

I'd go with Dell.

 

[rudedawg]

I am going to keep this comp for the kids..... so I am not going to gut it.

As for building it myself......I might be able to do that for around $700 but if you add in Windows XP home edition and Microsoft Office Small Business w/ Money and get a decent monitor I would be at or higher than what I can get the Dell for.

Dell 8200
P4 1.8GHZ
256MB PC800 RDRAM
Quiet Keyboard
17 in Monitor
64 MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX Graphics Card w/ TV Out
40 GB HD 7200 rpm
Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft IntelliMouse
Ethernet Card 10/100
56K Modem
16X DVD
Soundblaster Pro Sound Card
Harmon Kardon Speakers w/ Subwoofer
Microsoft Office Small Business w/ Money 2002
Norton AntiVirus (90 Day trial offer)
Digi Music and Photo
1 yr warranty
24X/10X/40X CD-RW with Roxio software
Total from Dell = $1199

A quick look up on CNET: I figure the processor is about $200, RAM is $100 ish, Monitor is $100 ish, HD is $75, Win XP $100 - 150 ?, Microsoft Office Samll Business $100 - 150, Ethernet Card $10 - 15, Modem $10 - 15, 16X DVD is $50 - 75, 24/10/40 CDRW $115, Soundblaster Sound Card $75 ish, HK wpeakers with Sub $30 - 50, need a tower also and a mouse and a keyboard.

If these are way off let me know. I am a bargain hunter and rarely pay regular price for anything.

 

[rudedawg]

Dell 8200
P4 1.8GHZ
256MB PC800 RDRAM
Quiet Keyboard
17 in Monitor
64 MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX Graphics Card w/ TV Out
40 GB HD 7200 rpm
Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft IntelliMouse
Ethernet Card 10/100
56K Modem
16X DVD
Soundblaster Pro Sound Card
Harmon Kardon Speakers w/ Subwoofer
Microsoft Office Small Business w/ Money 2002
Norton AntiVirus (90 Day trial offer)
Digi Music and Photo
1 yr warranty
24X/10X/40X CD-RW with Roxio software
Total from Dell = $1199

Ordered this one on Tuesday. Hopefully, it will be here early next week.

 

[Latimer]

You don't even save much bulding them yourself right now with the prices beings so low. I just bought a new computer from www.pcusa.com.

They'll build it to your specs and their prices are fairly cheap. I paid something like $652 for the following:

P4 1.6 ghz Northwood(512K), the big vendors will sell you a 256k version.

256 megs DDR/266 mhz

WD 40 gb 7200rpm ata100 hdd

GeForce2 MX 400 64megs

Soundblaster 128

52x cd-rom

16x10x40 burner

10/100 NIC

Case, mainboard, speakers, mouse, KB, modem and floppy.

 

[Latimer]

1 year warranty parts and labor with that too.

 

[rudedawg]

Where the hell were you when I posted this Latimer??????

 

[Latimer]

My bad, I didn't even see the post where you said you ordered it untill just now. At least you got a cool black case and monitor.

 

[rudedawg]

My bad, I didn't even see the post where you said you ordered it untill just now. At least you got a cool black case and monitor.

No prob I was just messin with ya anyway.... I did go to that site and for the same (not sure about motherboard) system it was $1314.50.

 

[rippedtrojan]

check out www.cyberpowerpc.com

my badass computer is from them, and they have reasonable prices. you can find any configuration from them you want. you can get a completely customized system or you can choose base systems and upgrade certain parts etc. their specials are usually good too.

 

[FarBeyondDriven]

Build your own, alot cheaper. If you got the CD drive, burner.

I would go with DDRam actually just about have to for most the new mother boards.

I built a AMD 1800XP with 256 DDR, 40 gig hard drive, 64 mg DDR video card, Cd, Cd burner and windows xp for a little over 500