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who to buy from?
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Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:40 pmby skysurfer2010
What OEM would you buy from? I know, most will say "none of them!"
I bought from Ibuypower last December and had a horrible experience. I ended up shipping it back and getting a full refund minus shipping (which wasn't cheap!!).
I'm considering buying a PC from Dell. For $1000 I can get a Q6600, Windows XP, 2gb sdram 800mhz, and a 320gb hard drive. It would come with an nvidia 8300GS but I would buy an 8800 GTS or 7950GT off ebay. My concerns right now are that I don't know what motherboard Dell ships with or what power supply.
What are your thoughts? I'm a pilot and am away 5 days a week. I don't have time to build my own, so that isn't an option unfortunately.
My goal is to run FSX at medium settings and stay under $1500.
Re: who to buy from?
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Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:26 pmby jimcooper1
Use the 'Customize and Buy' option from DELL. The XPS 410 with an 8800GTX is an excellent PC for FS9 and FSX. I have built a 4 monitor system based on this unit with XP Pro, the Q6600 processor and 2GB RAM.
Regards
Jim
Re: who to buy from?
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Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:21 pmby skysurfer2010
Use the 'Customize and Buy' option from DELL. The XPS 410 with an 8800GTX is an excellent PC for FS9 and FSX. I have built a 4 monitor system based on this unit with XP Pro, the Q6600 processor and 2GB RAM.
Regards
Jim
Thanks for the info, just what I wanted to hear, but thought I wouldn't! That's exactly what I configured, except I am just going to purchase it with a low end GPU and purchase an 8800 on ebay.
I assume the PS and MB that it comes with are adequate?
Re: who to buy from?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:40 amby skysurfer2010
also, what are your thoughts on Vista vs XP? is XP still the way to go when running FSX?
Re: who to buy from?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:32 amby jimcooper1
also, what are your thoughts on Vista vs XP? is XP still the way to go when running FSX?
Well, I'm from the 'old school:
Re: who to buy from?
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Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:09 pmby skysurfer2010
wow.. that's really cool! gives me ideas... haha
Re: who to buy from?
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Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:57 amby jimcooper1
[quote][quote]Use the 'Customize and Buy' option from DELL.
Re: who to buy from?
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Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:58 amby freedomhays
also, what are your thoughts on Vista vs XP? is XP still the way to go when running FSX?
Well, I'm from the 'old school:
Re: who to buy from?
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Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:30 amby jimcooper1
also, what are your thoughts on Vista vs XP? is XP still the way to go when running FSX?
Well, I'm from the 'old school:
Re: who to buy from?
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Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:08 amby freedomhays
Thanks for that, also do they all have to be the same size monitors...
Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition ,
Yikes,
Re: who to buy from?
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Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:22 amby jimcooper1
[quote]Thanks for that,
Re: who to buy from?
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Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:49 pmby Akula.
With the Matrox th2g, is it possible to connect different resolution monitors to it? I have a 22" widescreen, and I'm looking to flank it with two 19" without having to add another graphics card.
Re: who to buy from?
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Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:53 pmby jimcooper1
With the Matrox th2g, is it possible to connect different resolution monitors to it? I have a 22" widescreen, and I'm looking to flank it with two 19" without having to add another graphics card.
Matrox either supports 3 standard monitors or 2 widescreens.
Re: who to buy from?
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Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:22 pmby Akula.
Link in sig ;) I'm using a Sapphire X1550, to my knowledge, in a PCI-E slot. I could use a PCI card, but I dont know of any decent graphics cards in that format.
I'd like to buy a new motherboard and SLI two 8600 or 8800's, so I could use 4 monitors overall or one monitor in SLI mode, but I'm not particularly keen on swapping all my components over to the new mobo.