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Value PC buyers guide.
Hello. I've been visiting this site for years and have used your guides quite often. I am in the spot now where I want to build a new pc and only spend about a grand, but notice the guide for your value PC is almost 5 months out of date. I was wondering when this was going to be updated. I trust in your choices and tend to go with what you recommend, altho some times I will go a little higher on a piece here or there. Anyways, please let me know if this is in the works of if you are discontinuing this guide. Thank you!!!
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Mako Shark
check out some of the forums for people with build posts, there are usually a few of them floating around in the general hardware and cpu forums. Or you can start your own thread, just remember to include your price range and what you plan on using your comp for.
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Hammerhead Shark
i would also suggest posting and asking the community to help design your build to budget. we have some budget minded consumers in here. :-)
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Mako Shark
I too miss the budget guide. Sharkyextreme just isn't what it used to be *sigh*
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Into the Wasteland
Originally Posted by CaTaLyST
i would also suggest posting and asking the community to help design your build to budget. we have some budget minded consumers in here. :-)
haha SOME?? We're all cheap skates here!
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Hammerhead Shark
in this economy, i'd say thats true for most of us. its not always a bad thing, though. :-)
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I don't roll on Shabbos!
I think we should have a monthly thread that the members help piece together a budget system then we have a member write up the article. That would be fun.
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The first full system I ever built was one of those budget sharky systems. It was pretty good but the mobo they chose kept blowing. I think I lost three of the red MSI mobos.
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The lowest priced system I could bring myself to build as part of my semi-annual "friends and family build" was about $700.
I don't think I can be budget minded, even when I want to.
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Reef Shark
I can tell by your sig Hardware Revolution has a really awesome guide for this kinda stuff.
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Originally Posted by James
The lowest priced system I could bring myself to build as part of my semi-annual "friends and family build" was about $700.
$700 for a budget system? I rebuilt 2 systems back in december 2009 for $400 - that was for 2 new motherboards, 2 new CPUs and 2 gigs of memory for each system.
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Originally Posted by ~kev~
$700 for a budget system? I rebuilt 2 systems back in december 2009 for $400 - that was for 2 new motherboards, 2 new CPUs and 2 gigs of memory for each system.
I might be able to do it for about $650 now. Core i3 w/ HT, 4-8GB of RAM, 30GB SSD + 750GB hdd, onboard video if they don't game, a HD5770 if they do.
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