which pc to raid on low settings

[shniishnii]

i have been working at my new job for a week now and want to buy a pc, i havent raided since a year ago when my old computer died. im looking at Dell outlet desktops and laptops. im not looking for something to play on Ultra or to do multitasking on just raid for 3-6 hours a night. my budget is only 500-650$ here is what im looking at.

Laptop-
•Processor: Intel Core i5-460M Processor (3M cache, 2.53 GHz)
•Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium
•Inspiron 17R - N7010 Laptop
•320 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM)
•4 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)
•8X DVD +/- RW Drive
•1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

Desktop-
•Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1GHz , 3 MB Cache)
•Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium
•XPS 8300
•1 TB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM)
•8 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (4 DIMMs)
•16X DVD +/- RW Drive
•1 GB ATI Radeon HD 5450 DDR3

[Djinni]

Please please please, don't buy a dell. I'm not sure how they work in the US, but deffinatly here in England, they are terrible (So terrible I haven't actually seen any dell's for a while except in movies...)

[DaGhostDS]

on low both should be enough, my friend has worst and is not playing on low either

But yah i agree dell suck :X

okay workstation (just okay), bad gamestation.

[shniishnii]

what makes them suck? i never owned a PC only a mac and i played on a Imac for 3 years so please give me some advice on a gaming pc

[georgevonfranken]

what makes them suck? i never owned a PC only a mac and i played on a Imac for 3 years so please give me some advice on a gaming pc

Best advice would be to make it yourself

[Djinni]

Dell have terrible customer relations, the customer support is non-existant. if anything goes wrong it takes months to get anything fixed (usually by then you spend another month or two arguing about the vaildity of the machines warrenty.)

And with all that said for some reason I keep recomending Dell XPS laptops.....


If your "new" the scene then i'd deffinatly recomend buying your machine from somewhere "with a face" a shop you can physically walk into and cause hell if something goes wrong :P

[shniishnii]

CPU:Intel® Core™ i3-540 3.06 GHz 4M Intel Smart Cache LGA1156
FAN:Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA) (Single Standard 120MM Fan)
HDD:500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive)
MEMORY:4GB (2GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD:* [CrossFireX] Asus P7P55 LX Intel P55 Chipset DDR3 LGA1156 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB2.0, SATA-II, RAID, 2 Gen2 PCIe, 2 PCIe X1, & 3 PCI
OS:Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium (64-bit Edition)
POWERSUPPLY:450 Watts - Standard Case Power Supply
VIDEO:AMD Radeon HD 6450 1GB GDDR3 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI)


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this is from another website not named dell
does this look ok?

[vesseblah]

Does the $650 need to include monitor, keyboard, mouse and windows too? Also are you allergic to ordering from Newegg?

If you can push the budget right at $650, for example this does not have any serious compromises and can do better than you asked for
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883227315

Another really great deal if you want to take risk with recertified computer is this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883220058