Help a noob buy a good computer

[eric5148]

Saw this computer (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=52476&item=5132832 273) on ebay today. What's your opinion?

[yct]

depending on what u plan to use it for. i suppose it's a good gaming system. but if you only need to buy a pc to play online poker, u could get a new dell for about $500 or so...

[CT11]

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depending on what u plan to use it for. i suppose it's a good gaming system. but if you only need to buy a pc to play online poker, u could get a new dell for about $500 or so...

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I can't agree more. Also this looks like some guy who built a computers and sells them on ebay. Not a bad thing but with dell (even a cheap dell) you get enough support that if something breaks it will get replaced.

~CT11

[jmark]

I would recommend against that computer -- the motherboard isn't very good, since it has the Nforce3-150 chipset. They kind of screwed up with that chipset and it's much slower than it should have been.

What are you going to use the computer for? I'm sure we can recommend a better value.

[BusterStacks]

I think Dell's support should make their computer's cheaper. It blows!