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[Zenchi]

I plan on buying a new computer for christmas..

Only problem is, I can't find any good preconstructed ones. I want something about 1,000$. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had a link to a nice website where you can custom-build your PC?

P.S. Penteium 4 or Other? (I want the fastest and stablest. )

[zip_mc]

i have no links for ya but..

i would suggest dont get an Athlon if u want stabilty ( my uncle who owns a comp shop said somthing about this )

depends on what u really want it for... like games, work what?

for Games i would say P4 and for work go for a celeron cause there cheaper and only a little bit slower than a P4..

[Zenchi]

zip_mc, on Sep 4 2004, 03:05 PM, said:

depends on what u really want it for... like games, work what?

for Games i would say P4 and for work go for a celeron cause there cheaper and only a little bit slower than a P4..

Erm, I should've added something.

Price is somewhat irrelavant, as this is to last me for 4 years. (Little more price is a little bit nicer.)

[truvu17]

I dont know where you live, but if you are around the bay area, ca. Go to FRY's, they have the best sale!! I remember half a year ago they had a P4 with ECS mb(crappy but do-able) for only $100 bucks.

[Zenchi]

That's where I got my Video card and HDD.

I don't like Fry's for this sort of thing, as it's a pain to find them in the store. People there don't know jack hussein.

[truvu17]

The reason they dont know jack *BLEEP* is cuz most of them dont even know whats on sale that day , until their supervisor give them a list of stuff and they make copies of it in their own handwriting. I went down there so many times, and I would have to show them the newspaper itself before they cheap their handwritten list and realize its on sale. Fry's sale changes like every 1-2 days... You just always have to be on it and get it right away, or youll be too late.

[Jaykachu]

get amd hehe quite cheap

[Zenchi]

Aye, I did want an amd, but considering they're so cheap versus P4s.. Yea, I'll go P4, just need to know the best type still. :S Other then that I've got it down.

[akz]

heh good luck ~_~ I just need to buy a mother board, ram, and video card for xmas and its gonna cost me 600$ ~_~ sigh ..

[npmta]

zip_mc, on Sep 4 2004, 08:05 PM, said:

i have no links for ya but..

i would suggest dont get an Athlon if u want stabilty ( my uncle who owns a comp shop said somthing about this )

depends on what u really want it for... like games, work what?

for Games i would say P4 and for work go for a celeron cause there cheaper and only a little bit slower than a P4..

Hmmm....that's interesting,

I would say that an Athlon is great value for money and I've not had any problems with stability on Athlon-runned computers so far.
I have two systems I've put together running on an Athlon and one is 4 years old, the other is 1 year old. My friend who regularly builds computers for people also chooses Athlons over Pentiums - for it's value for money.

So far, all our Athlon computers have run just fine! No instability issues whatsoever(that is due to the CPU that is...Windows and other apps you have running is another thing).

What is definitely true is that Athlon CPUs tend to heat up faster and higher than Intel chips (read this at Tom's hardware or something similar). So, if you don't have adequate cooling, then you'll get stability issues - otherwise you're good to go.

Like I said earlier, my Athlon systems have been just fine and I didn't have to go crazy with cooling, just the normal and usual number of fans in the case, and it's fine!

cheers.