I'd prefer one that doesn't come with a lot of useless crap.
2007-05-26 08:19:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Try Carbonfrost Systems Defender Mark I. It comes to about $1400 and you get a pretty good gaming computer for that amount. I am listing the specs below as well as the website address.
http://www.carbonfrost.com/products/defender/
500 Gigabyte Hard Drive
2 GB RAM
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Dual Core
2.3 GHz Processor
DVD±R Burner 18X
ASUS AMD Motherboard
GeForce 7900GS 512MB Overclock Edition Video Card
M-Audio HD Sound Card
Windows Vista Home Basic
Starter Package
This configuration should be more than enough to play alot of the games and you can even go higher on their website. It also comes with 2 year warranty and they removed all unnecessary software (bloatware) from my PC before shipping so it was fast and I got one of the best deals for the price.
Plus they overclock your gaming pc and still keep it under warranty so you are gettting a even better pc than what I listed above. Good luck in your search
http://www.carbonfrost.com/
2007-05-26 09:03:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would go to cyberpowerpc.com and customize one of their Megaspecials or Gamer specials. Right now they have 5% off and some have free shipping. You should easily be able to get a pretty good gaming system for under $1500 without a monitor. If it were me I would try to get some or all of the following specs on the system.
-Intel Core2 duo processor (E6600 if possible)
-2 gb ram
-320 gb hard drive with 16 mb cache
-nVidia 7900 video card or higher (8800 if you are going to
run Vista and want to take advantage of directx10)
500 watt power supply
If you are going to Vista, for gaming you'll want at least Vista Home Premium
2007-05-26 09:24:00 · answer #2 · answered by eu_fppd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comps under 1500 are not really gaming class, but certainly they can be used for gaming. ALL brand new computers come with useless carp ( I TOTALLY agree with you) but you can uninstall it. You are wise to know that all that stuff that people download slow down their system and cause poor peformance. If youre going to get one right away I'd get a Dell for bang for the buck, maybe sony. If you go falcoln, alien, voodoo or xps, youre going to have a very low power puter. If you can wait, till july, you can get a better puter for the oney because there will be price wars in july.
2007-05-26 08:28:11 · answer #3 · answered by Harrison H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
look out for these pointers:
suggested processor is intel core duo or quad.
AMD used to be better than intel but since intel core was released, its rival has yet to come out.
a RAM of at least 1GB
a PC with a seperate video card with its own memory, 128MB.
a PC that has a good cooling system since it'll be used for gaming, so probably it'll be used for very long periods of time.
this is important, since poor ventilation shortens the life of yor PC and may even be the cause of fires.
2007-05-26 08:29:53 · answer #4 · answered by ian 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Despite the first answer, there are good gamers for considerably less than $1500. Here's a good example. You can probably run your games using Linux O. S. , which is free, or get a copy of XP Pro OEM from tigerdirect.com for an additional $139.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1487928&CatId=114
Or, you could build one yourself.
2007-05-26 08:45:40 · answer #5 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋