What is the best desk top for gaming?
Question: I am looking to purchase a desk top computer for my 17 year old son who enjoys playing games on his computer as well as using it for homework, internet, etc. What is a good choice, what are the important components to support gaming, any specific site recommendations or brands/sites to avoid? I am a single mom on a budget (hoping for under $1500.00) so value is important to me as well as warranty but I want to get a computer that will last, he will use it for college next year. Thank you!
The Best one i suggest is the dell xps dimension with dual xeon processor check out it if you litlle out of budget then you may buy AMD BASED XFX SYSTEM
I would go for a upscale Dell or Even an Upscale HP... For intense gaming you want a good graphics card good sound card and at least a gig of RAM. Probably a hard drive bigger than 80GB. Now that windows vista is out Vista Home Premium should get the job done just fine. The Dell XPS computers are probably the best for gaming when on a budget. If you were not go with a HP VooDoo PC or a Alienware computer. Exspenisive but worth it. As far as computer brands go... stay away from cheap brands like Emachins or Everex. You might be able to go to Tiger Direct and find a decent gaming computer on there. Good luck
Gaming depends almost solely on the graphics card. even a cheap computer will be awesome at games if you put a good card in it.
For your price range, I know a very high quality laptop with excellent specs and graphics card, and comes with a 2 year parts and labor warranty.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.as...
Usually, I dont reccomend dells and alienware, but you can pick up a laptop with an excellent x1800 gpu for about $1500 if you want to feel more secure about where you are getting it.
Stay away from tigerdirect at all costs!
Ask your local computer store for prices. You basically want a computer with a PCI-Express x16 slot. Using a AM2 slot or 775 slot (for the cpu). 1gb of memory (2gb if you can afford it), 80gb hd (or larger-if downloading songs, movies...much bigger harddrive), Mid size tower (not matx tower and not matx motherboard). The video card could be like a Radeon 1950 pro, that will allow all games today and quite a few future ones. www.tomshardware.com does have guides and benchmarks to help choose what you need.
And usually a local computer store can beat the prices of the name brands, and don't have to ship it anywhere for warranty.
sony has some really powerful
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