building your own pc/rant/vent (1 Viewer)

[jrdbrn]

Yes, I am venting. My motherboard went out on my current pc. It was already outdated anyways, and I needed a bigger HD too. I am looking into buying a new pc verses building it myself or rebuilding it.

I am ranting because my husband's friend keeps questioning why I want a lot of ram, or a decent graphics card (on the motherboard is fine, nothing seperate) or a quad processor. ( I secretly think he doesn't want to see a woman with that powerful of a pc or maybe just doesn't want me to have one better than his)

I work a lot with graphics making my own. I use Photoshop CS2 and love using all the brushes etc. I also like to watch TV on my computer, and download lots of music, but I constantly burn and delete. My son wants me to teach him how to make and edit videos. I don't game, but I am sure my son would like to a little bit.

I found a PC that has a nice 500 GB HD with a quad processor and 4 GB memory. Which is exactly what I want. This costs $1000.00 after rebates and before tax. I KNOW this could be built for a lot less than that.

Tell me why I don't want a quad processor and just a dual.
Tell me why I shouldn't waste $$ on 4GB of memory.
Don't tell me why I need a smaller HD, because that is not happening. I already have 120 GB of graphics to dump on to my external once I can access my old HD's.

Also would you go with Vista or XP? If so what version.

My motherboard died after 14 months. I paid nearly $250 for it...

Ordered a new P35 mobo and will RMA/Sell the old Asus ;P

 

[FL_Saint]

My motherboard went out on the computer I built myself over 4 years ago. Since it was that old, I had to get all new components. Except for the optical drives - which I may replace with new SATA drives soon anyway. I wanted to rebuilt mine instead of just buying a new one because I did not want that Vista crap. Dell is the only major manufacturer that I can find that will still include XP on some of their computer.

 

[buzd]

Most business divisions will load XP, but most consumer grade machines will not - certainly nothing you will find off the shelf.

Barring incompatibility with certain apps and if you have the resources to do so, I don't see a lot of reason not to run Vista at this point. Most of the major issues have been fixed, and SP1 should make that considerably better as well.