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I'm a senior in high school, and I realized that it is silly to get my graduation present (a laptop) at the end of the year. So I propsed this idea to my dad, and he agreed that it was silly. He told me that when my brother graduation, his laptop and printer given to him were worth $1,200, and he said I will have a similar budget, I've also got $250 of my own to spend. I don't yet have a car, so some money should go to that. My problem: I can't decide what to do. What I want is a desktop upgrade as well for college, I was thinking a Quad-core 2.5 Ghz or faster processor. As well as something cheep to use at school. The final cost would be $600 approx. $350 for the comp, with a quadcore, 1 TB of harddrive space, 4 gigs of physical memory, etc. And $250 for a netbook. And then my dad mentioned that while at college, inbetween classes (that 2 hour delay), I might need a faster proccesor. So I wondering if any fellow geeks out there would be willing to help me build a computer, with cheap/effective parts, and help me find a decent laptop for inbetween classes. The reason I'd like such a powerful proccesor is because a) I currently have a AMD Athlon 64 bit procccesor going at 1.8 ghz, with 1 gb of ram, I'm obviously sick of not even being able to have 6 tabs open without serious lag. b) I'm going to be video editing soon, the real type too, I want something that can render quickly. and c) I'm told my brother, who going to the University of MN, actually uses the school computers more than his laptop. I would like to be at home as I study, it's quieter :) Please help? |
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Well since you can't afford a high end system I would recommend an AMD processor, maybe the 1100T Black Edition or a fusion processor. I've got it and coupled with 8GB RAM it takes on just about anything. Memory and hard drives cost next to nothing these days so a system comprised of a 2TB HDD, 1100T CPU, 8GBs RAM, 890FX MOBO, will run you about 500-600$ But you also need a monitor if you don't already have one. I don't know about your colledge but in my highschool in Denmark we had a computer network used for rendering. So you brought your project to the school and used the school computers to render for you. Saved a great amount of time. For the notebook I'm assuming you want it to collect notes while in class, so get one with a long battery life that's my tip. |
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This thing will FLY http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400245710536#ht_8013wt_1053 and if you don't like it, go to the bottom and customize it, then press build configuration, and magically, a new eBay item will be created for you. genius!!!!!!!! |
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I saw one at BestBuy the other day for $900. It wasn't on sale, so the price won't get any higher. Intel i7 Quad Core @ 3.40Ghz, 8GB of RAM, 1TB HDD, 1GB graphics memory. It was an Asus. Looks nicely built, I would recommend it.
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