skiingliberal
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Howdy! About a month ago, my apartment was broken into, and my baby (laptop) was stolen, along with my xbox, ps2 and gamecube controllers (interestingly enough, the guy left the gamecube itself untouched). Since then, I?ve been scouring tech forums learning about the hardware, determined to build my own pc without starting an ?oh my dear god, please help me!!!? thread. But alas, I?ve come to an impasse and I need some advice.
I definitely want something powerful enough to handle high-end gaming (seeing as how I?m stuck with nothing right now), and had settled on building a system around an athlon 64 3500+ processor and MSI nForce3 motherboard. However, As I prepare to build this system, I was reminiscing about using my laptop at coffee shops, at work (politics, don?t ask), and about its functionality in our tiny apartment, and started looking at the acer Ferrari and dell inspiron xps (on ebay for the xps), and now I?ve essentially driven myself crazy with indecision (seems to be a pretty common problem for us Democrats).
My budget is around $2000, give or take a few hundred, and any advice about what I should do would be greatly appreciated!!!
I definitely want something powerful enough to handle high-end gaming (seeing as how I?m stuck with nothing right now), and had settled on building a system around an athlon 64 3500+ processor and MSI nForce3 motherboard. However, As I prepare to build this system, I was reminiscing about using my laptop at coffee shops, at work (politics, don?t ask), and about its functionality in our tiny apartment, and started looking at the acer Ferrari and dell inspiron xps (on ebay for the xps), and now I?ve essentially driven myself crazy with indecision (seems to be a pretty common problem for us Democrats).
My budget is around $2000, give or take a few hundred, and any advice about what I should do would be greatly appreciated!!!
