New Computer

[Wedge]

My dad's computer can run the Orange Box.

It has a 8500GT, 3GB of ram, and a 2.81Ghz AMD processor. Nothing amazing or expensive.

If you build a new computer, re-use your old monitor, it will save you a lot of money. I'm using a computer monitor that I've had since at least 2001. It's been on 3 different computers now.

[Ad Bot]

[Miga]

Did forgeted over 2 years after buying it. Everyone in my pc repair class loves it when people come in with broken emachienes. EASY MONEY

Yup, mine forgeted over about three years after buying it.
And the tech support didn't know how to speak in English. Gah.
I'm really never going to buy a pre-built PC again, unless I plan on upgrading it immediately like I did with my Dell.

[Reactor Worker]

$150 - GPU   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130359
$50  - Case  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119068
$75  - Mobo  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128084
$60 - PSU     http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371007
$45 - RAM    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098
$70 - HDD    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136055
$27 - CD    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151171
$90 -OS     http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116200
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$567

With a little more money you could get Home premium which has the Aero interface and a bunch of other features. Not all amazing components but together they should crush any prebuilt system.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, you could save yourself some money by reusing your existing CD/DVD drives and your Hard disk drives too.

[General Omega]

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&kc=productdetails~xpsdt_720h2c&l=en&oc=dxcwzh4&s=dhs&fb=1

Best prebuilt as far as dell gaming computers go. I got around 3tb or memory with a stuff load of ram and other stuffs for around 6k

[Reactor Worker]

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&kc=productdetails~xpsdt_720h2c&l=en&oc=dxcwzh4&s=dhs&fb=1

Best prebuilt as far as dell gaming computers go. I got around 3tb or memory with a stuff load of ram and other stuffs for around 6k

What a piece of crap. $2000 and it has the exact same GPU that I recommended with my $500 build above? wut? Looks like they wasted half the "budget" on that handicapped "Extreme" CPU.

Seriously, if you like your wallet, build a PC yourself, its a lot of fun and saves you a ton of money.

[Colten]

$150 - GPU   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130359
$50  - Case  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119068
$75  - Mobo  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128084
$60 - PSU     http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371007
$45 - RAM    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098
$70 - HDD    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136055
$27 - CD    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151171
$90 -OS     http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116200
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$567

With a little more money you could get Home premium which has the Aero interface and a bunch of other features. Not all amazing components but together they should crush any prebuilt system.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, you could save yourself some money by reusing your existing CD/DVD drives and your Hard disk drives too.

I wish I had money ):

[Reactor Worker]

I could have sworn I put together a build for you...didn't you say you had $2000 or something?

[FlyGuy45]

OMG OMG OMG OMG NO VISTA!

NO NO NO NO NO.

[Junior]

There is no chance of me getting an Emachines, my aunt had one for 2 weeks and boom.