Posted in Builds, Cases, Hard Drives, Input Devices, Meta, Monitors, Motherboards, Processors (AMD), Processors (intel), RAM, Uncategorized, Video Cards on Jan 22nd, 2008
NewEggs doing a massive promotion celebrate this famous spending holiday.. the day after MLK day? Anyway, they’ve cut prices for 24 hours for many computer products and electrons for those on their mailing list. But sir, you say, I’m not on the mailing list. Not a problem. Here’s the mailing list with promo codes included [...]
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This is the cheapest computer I’ve ever built. I’d build this computer and throw Ubuntu or some other user friendly linux variant on it for someone who doesn’t need a computer for much. It should do word processing and web browsing fine - but I wouldn’t recommend playing many games past solitaire on it.
AMD 2800+
256MB [...]
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I recently had a phone call from a customer who is disabled, and on a fixed income. He wanted to build his own laptop, as a full size desktop computer was too difficult to lug around. I looked into building a laptop, but all of the sources I could find indicated that it was more [...]
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Posted in Builds, Monthly builds on Dec 31st, 2007
Taking quite a few steps down from the previous model, this is a computer fairly close to the one I built for myself recently. It doesn’t come with an operating system, but most people have a windows XP CD lying around somewhere. If not, then this computer will cost you about $89 dollars more, unless [...]
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Posted in Builds, Monthly builds on Dec 31st, 2007
This is by far the most expensive computer I’ve ever built. DDR3, 2 TB hard drive, 3.0 Ghz QUAD-CORE processor, etc. Total cost: 4,155.71
Intel Core 2 Extreme 3.0 Ghz
2 x 4 GB Patriot DDR3 RAM
750 Watt Power supply
4 x 500GB Hard Drive
2 x 8800GTS evga
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I realized that I only really have low-end builds on this site right now, I’m going to spend some time changing that up. Here’s the first in the series - a midrange computer for $662.92
500 GB Hard Drive
2 GB RAM
550W Power Supply
Geforce 8600GT
Dual Core AMD 3.0 Ghz x 2 Processor
SLI capable motherboard
DVD Burner
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Posted in Builds, Monthly builds on Dec 24th, 2007
AMD 3000+ 1.8Ghz
80GB Hard Drive
512MB RAM
430W Power Supply
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Posted in Builds, Monthly builds on Dec 22nd, 2007
At my house we have four computers that regularly connect to the internet and each other, not to mention six or seven more that rotate in and out of use. This creates an enormous amount of files that need to be backed up, transferred between computers, and so forth. Our current solution is to simply [...]
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