p.c buying?

I need help getting a new desktop,i surf the web burn cds watch you tube and twim videos and thats basically it,im lookin to spend no more than $300 can anybody point me in the right direction?

have you checked dell ? i heard they're pretty good you could put whatever you want on them pretty much you could build it for whatever you want to use it for, check it out. dell.com

Check out dell, they have some great sales from time to time. I got a heck of a deal on my Dell XPS 1530.

nathanas85 wrote:

Check out dell, they have some great sales from time to time. I got a heck of a deal on my Dell XPS 1530.

Thx guys ill check dell out.

Yeah, also new egg.com

You can get a pretty solid pc for 3-4 at this point.


Probably no less that 500gb of hard drive
Also I would look for 4 gb of ddr2 or ddr3 ram.

If you can get those specs, with burner you should be feeling pretty good about it. look for windows 7 as well as it just came 4 months ago and will be the building block.

Just like the above poster stated, newegg.com is a pretty good place to look. I would also check out tigerdirect.com and see what you can find there.

i built my computer for about 500$ a year ago off of newegg.com and i just recently built my cousins gaming computer(budget) by buying the parts directly from tigerdirect, we went their bought the parts got back at his house around 6 and we had it running in about 2 hours with windows and everything installed.

really building a computer is not as hard as some people think it is. i would look into doing that its a great skill to have, it will save you tons of money and it gives you a fun project to do.

my computers stats that i built last year are:
4 gb ddr2 ram
250gb hdd
3.0 ghz duel core amd processor
and a 512mb 9800gt nvidia graphics card.

if i was you i would probably go with a ddr2 setup rather than a ddr3 as it is new technology more expensive and unnecessary unless you are going to use that computer for something more than what you plan on doing. also amd is the way to go with processors if your looking for a budget build. they are easily overclocked to make their performance great if your willing to put in the time to learn too overclock.

also i would not recommend dell they are extremely over priced and i heard they glue their parts into place ( funny thing is im typing this on a dell laptop that i got for free for signing up for comcast )