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Assistance: Buying a new PC
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18-10-2005 10:13pm#1
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First off... Intel Pentium... for the video editing...
Tis better at encoding than equally priced AMD.
Seen as you can pick up a floppy drive for bout 10e ya might as well. Better to have one sitting there doin nothing for ages, than sitting there wishing you had one in a pinch...
I wouldn't go dell except for maybe price...
Are ya going to build or buy......??
All printer cartridges cost a fortune... thats a given. Aint gonna change either!
Memory??? Really depends on budget.. same with the other questions you asked? The dvd burner thing...? cant help ya there I'm afraid.. im waiting for hd... or will it be blu-ray? Or both...... :rolleyes:0 -
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Budget up to 1,000 or say 1100 but dont wont to spend that much if I dont have too. I find Dell's site irritating to get around. I thought that the Dell Dimension 3000 for €760 (including flat panel) would fit my needs:
Intel Pentium 4 Processor (280Ghz, 533FSB, 1MB cache),
Memory: 512MB DDR RAM, HArd Drive: 160GB HArd Drive (7200 RPM), Graphics Card: Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics,
Optical drive: 48xcd-rw/dvd Combo drive
BUT somewhere on the site it said that the system wasnt suitable for video editing - Is it not powerful enough ?
I could upgrade some components but there wouldnt be a huge difference in getting a new PC as it is only a matter of time before the exisitng system falls flat.
If I were to add on Microsoft Office 2003 or printer this would bring the price up nearer the 1100 mark. I presume I could get a legit copy of Microsoft Office 2003 cheaper on the net and ditto with a printer ?
The above system is a starting point and maybe you have suggestions for add ons. eg is the 48xcd-rw/dvd combo drive sufficient to burn cds and dvds. No idea of difference between +/-
The differences between manufacturers products would be lost on me so probably ready made or something from site. I am trying to get my brother in law to purchase same for me through his work as they get 10% discount I think.
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might not be good enough because of the integrated graphics?
even a cheap graphics card would be better than that..
2.8GHz is alright... I suppose.. Actually it should do pretty well.
the difference between +/- is that some reader wont read a disk written in - or vice versa. though you can get multi readers and writers now. Go for the multi to be sure.
If ya look around the net you'll find better explanation of this.... Price is also a factor in there. I think "-" is more expensive but more reliable....
Hard drive is alright. Don't think you'll get much better speed(10,000rpm) without seriously upping the price. But you can pick up a 200GB HD for round e110/e150?0 -
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