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    In need of a new computer

    Hello all, my 5 year old dell has bit the dust on me and I am in the market for a new computer. I’m not really wanting to build my own I would just like to go and pick one up or order one and have it sooner than a month. The only stores we have here with computers are Sam's Club and BestBuy. I’ve been playing wow on this setup every since I got the computer over 5 years ago. Whenever I am not raiding I run a pally on my main monitor with 4 shamans on my second monitor (all low graphics) so I need something that will be able to do that, and possibly on higher than the lowest setting.

    This is my old specs on the computer that just died on me

    OPERATING SYSTEM:
    Windows 2.5.1.2600 (Service Pack 3)
    CPU TYPE: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000
    CPU SPEED:2.12*GHz
    SYSTEM MEMORY:
    3.25*GB
    VIDEO CARD MODEL:
    NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
    VIDEO CARD MEMORY:
    1009*MB
    VIDEO CARD DRIVER:
    nv4_disp.dll
    PRIMARY DISPLAY RESOLUTION:
    1024x768
    SECONDARY DISPLAY RESOLUTION:
    1024x768

    My wife noticed this one in Sam’s the other day because she wanted to steal the monitor and put it in our bedroom.

    Model: p7-1297cb
    Processor 2nd Gen AMD Quad-Core A10-5700 Accelerated Processor6
    Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit7
    Display HP 2711x 27" LED Monitor1
    Memory (RAM) 8GB PC3-12800 DDR38
    Hard Drive 2TB (7200RPM) SATA9
    Wireless Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n4
    Optical Drive SuperMulti DVD Burner10
    Video Graphics AMD Radeon™ HD 7660D Discrete Graphics. Up to 4059MB Total Available Graphics Memory as allocated by Windows® 711

    It’s almost $900 after the taxes and I’m just assuming I can get a much better computer for this amount of money. I don’t need the monitor as I already have two and i know that’s part of the cost on this machine. $900 would probably be my budget as well.

    I also looked at the mega special III on cyberpowerpc but I would have to wait about 2-3 weeks for it to even ship and I’m impatient. Plus when you get into all that customization it just confuses me.

    Can someone help me out and point me in the right direction? Any help would be much appreciated!!

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    That's bad for $900, HP's monitors are nothing special.

    Take this from Marest's sample builds:

    Gaming 790
    MoBo: ASRock Z77 Pro3 – $94.99
    CPU: Intel i5 3570k – $229.99
    RAM: G.Skill 1600MHz 2x4GB – $33.99
    GPU: MSI GTX 660 – $229.99
    HDD: WD Caviar Blue 500GB – $69.99
    PSU: XFX ProSeries 450W – $62.99 Review
    Case: Antec Three Hundred – $69.99
    --------------------------------------------------
    Estimated Total Price – $792

    And add a $100 monitor from BenQ, ASUS or Dell.
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