need a new desktop
 

So my last dell xps 8500 from the dell outlet store lasted me only 2.3 years and looks like the motherboard crapped out on me.. should i roll the dice again and go for the xps 8700 here.. Dell Factory Outlet

35% off 979

Dont really feel like trying to build my own pc right now.. goof thing i have this shitty windows tablet to fuck around with in the mean time

Right now I have 3 HPs on my desk. Two of them are 4 years old, one of them is three years old. I need to give them all a good cleaning, but other than that, they work quite well. I've got an SSD drive in my laptop running an i5 and 8 gigabytes of RAM, it's my favorite computer right after my iMac.

That same one (I believe) is $899 at Microcenter ($674 Openbox)
http://www.microcenter.com/product/4...sktop_Computer

Yeah i think this is my first dell failure.. so leaning on getting it again and prob order a ssd to put in it

Amazon had a great deal on SSDs this week.

I picked up 5 x 240gb SanDisk Extreme for just under $500. I think they were $90 each.

Downtime is unacceptable to me so I have backup after backup.

My main PC is three years old and has had no issues. It's a Alienware Aurora R4, 3.6 GHZ, 16 GB of RAM. It has two video cards, both with on board memory; I run three monitors. I can be playing Call Of Duty on one monitor, watching a movie on another, chatting on Skype on the third monitor, and be rendering a movie all at the same time without any issues.

My back PC is an Alienware x51 running two monitors, and an Alienware MX18 laptop in the master bedroom hooked up to a spare monitor. I have another smaller Alienware laptop, and then my Microsoft Surface.

Three years ago I decided to re-work how I did everything with my work and moved over to cloud computing. I can switch from computer to computer without skipping a beat. If all of my computers in the house were to die, I could buy a laptop off the shelf and quickly be back up and running.

Either get a local shop to build one for you or go with something like ncix.com. building a desktop is the only way to go.

Been running HP for many years. Same story usually I upgrade after 3-4 years not due to any issues but just wanting something new. Only issue I ever had on one of them was a power supply going out but quick trip to MicroCenter and a fast swap out and good to go again. :2 cents:

you can find some decent deals on ebay also.

I buy a lot of my computers on Craigslist. Why pay full price for a computer when there is some broke college kid who needs beer money?

looks like that one is sold out

that looks pretty nice but windows 7? I'm not ready to go windows 10 but not sure if 7 is that great either. The open box price is nice though.


Me I'd go with this open box and maybe buy a motherboard for your broken pc. It's always nice to have a backup computer. :2 cents:

I have had good luck with ASUS motherboards.