 | | Looking to buy a gaming rig - any thoughts? —Mike Stanley
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| | | Well, after years of building my own machines I'm finally going to buy a pre-assembled computer. I've found myself doing more and more work from home and more and more work-related stuff with Win2k and Linux and not enough goofing off, so I'm (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Looking to buy a gaming rig - any thoughts? —Jon Palmer
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| | | | | (...) get (...) offer (...) Yep. They'll give you so many unneccesary software as well. "Why yes I would love Quicken, is that a Quake mod?" (...) have (...) me. I looked at them as well, and I agree that they were too expensive. (...) and (...) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Looking to buy a gaming rig - any thoughts? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) (Falcon) Definitely. I figure being willing to spend $1500-$2000 on a machine to be used for nothing but games is "bad" enough - I can't justify going higher than that, especially when I know it'll be the same parts. I don't need to support (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Looking to buy a gaming rig - any thoughts? —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) They like to be on the bleeding edge. Granted, they get points for having the stablest AMD-based rigs around, but unless you've got money to burn (who does anymore?), look elsewhere. (...) It's a 1.3 Athlon, not a 1.33, that might have (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Looking to buy a gaming rig - any thoughts? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) I just recently got a couple of computers (for work and home) from PCs for Everyone in Cambridge (URL). Their website could use some cgi scripting, but other than that, they're great -- very knowledgeable, even pretty decent linux experience. (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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