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| Aug 22nd, 2004 06:06 PM | ||
| St8ic |
http://computers.listings.ebay.com/D...istingItemList honestly your best bet. |
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| Aug 19th, 2004 03:05 PM | ||
| whoreable |
this isnt a bad deal. http://www.slickdeals.net/#p5092 of course it is a 2.8 gig I would upgrade the ram and video at least, but even then the price isnt too bad. |
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| Aug 17th, 2004 12:04 AM | ||
| whoreable |
i would say these are avg prices for what you can get online. 3.2 gig 279 (you can get a 3 gig for 208) MB with sound nic, firewire about 110 1 gig ram(2x 512) 160 case with ps ~50 9600xt 140 250gig 150 52x cdrw 30 dvdrw 70 989 or 918 of course thats no monitor and building it yourself. honestly thats better hardware than a prebuilt and gonna cost less. I still think you should do it yourself, i can find some tutorials online that you can try to look at, its really,really easy. just plug some crap in where it goes, put in a windows disc and follow the instructions on screen, then install a couple drivers and thats it. You just need to get an os and thats easy enough/ otherwise, I would say either hold out for a decent dell deal, or just go for it and forget costs. the closest dell you can get in specs. (still worse in most areas) is ell Dimension 4600 Series Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology (3.20GHz, 800 FSB) WPB328B [221-4140] 1 Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional WPXP [420-1922][313-7222][412-0409][412-0688][463-2282] 11 Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz (2x512M) 1GB4 [311-9004] 3 Keyboard Dell® Quietkey® Keyboard QK [310-1582] 4 Monitor No Monitor N [320-3000] 5 Video Card 128MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI 128FX52 [320-0735][320-2575] 6 Hard Drive 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) 250S [340-9731] 8 Floppy Drive and Additional Storage Devices No Floppy Drive Included NFD [340-8688] 10 Mouse Dell® 2-button scroll mouse SM [310-1871] 12 Network Card Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet IN [430-0412] 13 Modem No Modem Requested N [313-3607] 14 CD or DVD Drive Dual Drives: 8x DVD+RW Drive + 48x CD-ROM Drive CD8DVR [313-2609][313-2219][462-7812][430-0945] 16 Sound Integrated 5.1 Channel Audio IS [313-2758] 17 Speakers No Speaker Option N [313-4514] 18 Standard Plan ($55 Mail in Rebate) BSP2Y1S [950-1230][950-1231][412-0360][461-3749][970-9158][980-9497] 29 Video Editing IEEE 1394 Adapter 1394 [320-0169] 85 TOTAL: $1,288.00 |
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| Aug 16th, 2004 01:44 PM | ||
| AChimp |
For video editting, you'd want at least 1GB of RAM. I think. I'm not sure of the prices in the U.S., but the hardware that you've listed seems like it would cost more than $1000... The CPU itself is listed at C$400 at the cheapest place in town, which translates to about $300 US.  EDIT: Hard drives are about $1/gig. |
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| Aug 15th, 2004 06:15 PM | ||
| Mockery |
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Pentium 3.2ghz processor (or higher) with HT technology 200-250 gig hard drive 512mb RAM Preferably a Flatscreen monitor A DVD/RW Drive A CD/RW Drive A solid video card that can handle all my video editing needs. (ATI Radeon 9200 perhaps?) IEEE (firewire) ports USB ports A NIC card I still can't build it on my own though, I know I'd fuck something up. Still, I need to get this thing built asap because the longer I wait, the longer I have to put off doing some of these short films I want to do. And in the end, that's just gonna prolong the zombie movie getting filmed as well. -RoG- |
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| Jul 23rd, 2004 10:56 AM | ||
| Captain Goodtimes | I'll kick your ass, shithead. | |
| Jul 23rd, 2004 08:48 AM | ||
| ArrowX | no, and i meant 120 GB hard drive space possibly 512mg RAM s we can get it. | |
| Jul 23rd, 2004 07:39 AM | ||
| Matt Harty | Is St8ic Arrowx? | |
| Jul 23rd, 2004 03:45 AM | ||
| Alive |
Thats why they suck, there hard to upgrade (if at all possible, depending on the upgrade) theres no gaming (well not that much of it anyway) takes forever for them to port over a pc title, if it even makes it.... and the prices are WAY higher , and you cant build your own. why the hell would anyone want one of these things? that video editing capabilities that there great for has made it to the pc in the last couple years, and the pc processor speeds combined with the newer video cards out there now totaly blow macs away. but thay still have a tight knit following instep with there "god" steve jobs, that they would most certainly beg to differ... if i go any further with this your gonna have to open up a "pc vs. mac" forum.... 
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| Jul 22nd, 2004 11:43 PM | ||
| executioneer |
macs are good i guess but expensive 
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| Jul 22nd, 2004 11:10 PM | ||
| JeefGyle | If this computer is going to be specifically for video editing. I'd actually recommend getting a mac. That's what we used in my TV production class, and they are actually pretty sweet for that. I believe you could get a single processor G4 for around a grand. | |
| Jul 22nd, 2004 10:46 PM | ||
| ArrowX | Shut up fartin you have a wife meaning you cant go out and have meaningless sex with many an ilustrious women without feeling morally guilty and hoing to hell. | |
| Jul 22nd, 2004 10:14 PM | ||
| St8ic |
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| Jul 22nd, 2004 09:02 PM | ||
| executioneer |
i wish i had a computer w/ 120 gigs of ram 
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| Jul 22nd, 2004 08:14 PM | ||
| FartinMowler |
Send him a case of real beer and he will forget why he wanted a computer. 
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| Jul 22nd, 2004 08:01 PM | ||
| AChimp |
 Let's build a computer for Rog and mail it to the US. It will cost him triple of what he would have paid for something local. |
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| Jul 22nd, 2004 07:25 PM | ||
| FartinMowler | Hey, Arrow X your friend sounds like a fag. | |
| Jul 22nd, 2004 05:58 PM | ||
| St8ic |
Well aren't we getting ahead of our selves? that's alot to expect from $600. But yes, I do have access to wholesale prices. You'll save quite a bit this way. Just tell us some minimum specs and I'll see what I can do. Thanks. |
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| Jul 22nd, 2004 11:12 AM | ||
| ArrowX |
I have one. Took one year for the thing to start smoking now it constantly grins for no reason. But me and st8ic can get 3.2ghz, with 120gb RAM, and possibly a radeon of sorts for under $600 |
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| Jul 22nd, 2004 10:59 AM | ||
| pjalne |
That's what I did. If you DO buy a finished PC, don't even think about geeting a Compaq. |
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| Jul 22nd, 2004 10:53 AM | ||
| Mockery |
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| Jul 21st, 2004 08:05 PM | ||
| executioneer |
virtualdub is an okay video editing program for the price 
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| Jul 21st, 2004 06:31 PM | ||
| ArrowX | i can get parts and one built from the new guy St8ic | |
| Jul 21st, 2004 05:43 PM | ||
| AChimp |
Building your own is definitely the way to go if you're looking for power. There isn't really much you can screw up, either, unless you drop it or spill Coke all over everything. Many of the computer parts stores around here absolutely insist that THEY be the ones to install the RAM and plug in the CPU, and they do it for free. Those were the only two things that you could really break something with, and the new CPU fans are notoriously fiendish.  As for all the other parts, the main rule when building a computer nowadays is "if it doesn't fit, it doesn't go there." |
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| Jul 21st, 2004 04:56 PM | ||
| whoreable |
see? even fartinmowler can do it! Actually i would build one, but shipping costs wouldnt be worth it. |
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