[AccessD] OT: Shopping for a new comp

Just last night I ordered the Dell - XPS 8300 i7-2600, 3.4GHz, W7 Home
Premium, 8GB DDR3 DSRAM at 1333Mhz, 1TB SATA 3.0 HD (7200rpm), AMD Radeon HD
6450 1GB DDR3, BluRAy combo Drive, 2yrs. On-site warranty.  $999.

And today we got to Frys to buy components for Noah's machine - AMD Phenom
II, motherboard, HD, 600w power supply, case, etc., etc.  - good summer
project for him.  He made some compromises and got the cost down below the
$600 budget I gave him (switched to AMD from Intel i7).  He'll go over that
before he gets out of the store (sales tax kind of took him by surprise -
8.75%) but he's got some dough so I'll make him kick in a few $$.  He still
thinking of taking the HD from his current box but I think a new HD would be
a better idea.

R

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Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 5:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Shopping for a new comp

Curious minds want to know.  What did you end up with?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 6/11/2011 9:26 AM, rockysmolin at bchacc.com wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> It's time.  My current development box is 4-5 years old.  Dell P4, 
> 3GHz, XP, limited to 2 GB RAM.  And the HD is pretty small (<100 GB, 
> IIRC - I'm not at home at the moment - in Chicago, actually), though 
> it was huge at the time.  Been a very solid workhorse but (like me) is 
> slowing down. I think part of the problem is that I have more stuff 
> open than I used to so there's some swapping going on.
>
> I could dump the HD, reformat and reload I suppose.
>
> My 14 y.o. wants a more powerful box, too and needs better graphics 
> than he has.  So I told him with the right GPA at the end of the year 
> I'll get him a new box, too.
>
> All we need are the boxes, BTW - got plenty displays and external HD.
>
> I need speed, not a lot of graphics, and no need for huge HD storage.
> Any new box will have a big enough HD for me.
>
> But the new crop of multi-core processors is unfamiliar to me.
>
> We'll probably take a field trip to Fry's but if Dell has a good price 
> I usually order from them and have it delivered.
>
> What would you advise?
>
> TIA
>
> ROcky
>
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