Actually buying a new computer this timeFollow

Yeah, you missed the point that your claim that a 9800 GTX+ can run any PC game with maxxed out settings was a retarded thing to say. It's a perfectly capable little card. It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, "more than capable of playing any PC game at a high resolution and with all the software features you want turned on" as you claimed.

Edited, May 6th 2010 8:50pm by Jophiel

Hundred bucks? Totally worth it to not have to fuss with it myself.

The buy route, there are some plusses and some potential pitfalls. Ibuypower and cyberpower are both decent companies. They are lower priced than some, but have the occasional quality control issue. They rose to prominance after Dell bought Alienware and HP bought Vodoo PC. Falcon northwest, Widow PC, etc are still your leading Super high dolar build shops.

The one really good thing about The ibuypower and cyberpower is they use standard components. You buy a typical dell or HP workstation, and half the crap is nonstandard Fan headers, BTX form factor motherboards, anemic power supplies. Makes future upgradeing a pain. you can usually take an ibuypower case and upgrade it fairly easily. I tend to not like their case selection because they go for the flashy over the top flame painted ones, and their lower end builds use very tiny cases.

Some of the other pluses to the buy route:
A single warranty point - If the computer breaks, they fix for the term of the warranty
A known good installation of the OS - Some people have difficulty provisioning their computer loads and ensuring they get things like antivirus and patches installed.

Some of the minuses:
A retail video card might have a lifetime warrenty. That same card in an ibuypower or equivilent PC will have at most a 3 year warranty.
Prebuilt OS's from manufacturers often have useless crap pre installed that you don't want.
Spending that $100 you could have used to buy a better CPU.

The support from Ibuypower and Cyberpower tends to be hit or miss. Then again so is Dell and HP unless you have a gold support line.

I think there is value to having built your own computer though too. Makes rebuilding it later much cheaper than buying a new one.

Just to be a ****

Two can play at that game!

Edited, May 7th 2010 7:13am by Kaolian

This is where you made your mistake. You asked her what the budget was.

I didn't tell my wife what my laptop cost until I took it out of the box and licked it so I couldn't send it back (like a muffin).

You forgot the most important option of all:

None of you mother f'uckers is making any sense at all at this point so shut the f'uck up about it and move on.

Of course, you may have omitted that on purpose because its, like, not nice, and stuff.

Edited, May 7th 2010 9:22am by MoebiusLord