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Originally Posted by Grog  Thanks for all the advice, guys. I ended up going with Dell since the only place I could find locally that builds PCs wanted to charge me more money for a less powerful computer. I got something pretty decent for just a tad over $1k. I don't do enough PC gaming anymore to justify the price of a higher-end system.
Now I need monitor advice! I'd like to get a new monitor, too, but I'm not sure what to get. Are TN panel monitors as crappy as I've heard they are? Because it seems like, if you want a higher-quality panel, it's quite a big jump in price. |
If you don't game, and you spent $1K w/o a monitor, you probably bought too much system. Heck, I think the $550 Dell I just bought because my laptop is dead was likely overkill (given that I pretty much only game on my Xbox 360); a 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM is not going have any trouble running Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server Express, and IIS at the same time, and isn't going to run anything more demanding than that. But I couldn't make myself stick with a Pentium Dual Core (even at 2.5 GHz) or integrated graphics.
And no, TN panels aren't crappy. They're not the best, but go look at some panels at a store before dismissing them out of hand.
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