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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 944030" data-attributes="member: 8704">Most computers are so fast these days only the most cutting edge games require anything special (like the upcomming Doom 3). Dells are great computers but they are not really special computers. There are dozens of companies out there that make good computers (just like with cars, general quality is so high there really isn't a bad new car anymore). The thing is that people who know can tell the difference in computers when playing these cutting edge games and there are many people who want the fastest just because that's what they want. Dell just isn't cool or hip anymore.Myself I play a lot of strategy games that could be played on any old computer made after 2000 but I like to have the latest and greatest of parts just for the sake of being a techno junkie.  I just sold off my AMD 2100+ with raid and a Radeon 8500 for $100 bucks just because it wasn't cutting edge enough anymore. I'll be building a faster one in the very near future but for now my 3 year old IBM A20 workstation with intergrated sound and graphics will do just fine. I still have 3 computers and a laptop, 4 monitors and three printers laying around, you know if I would clear out some of the junk I could probably afford that Alienware rig myself but where is the fun in that.</blockquote>