What do you think about this COMPANY/PC SPECS?

[uthaman3]

Hey,
I heard about this company from a friend. I don't want to buy my new PC without getting some honest feedback from some experienced users.
I don't want to buy a typical name-brand PC. This company looks like they're selling a pretty hot system. What do you think?

Here's the URL:

www.elementpc.com

Uthaman3

 

[Yoshi]

Anyone on this forum will tell you to build your own.

The systems from that company seem to include some useless fat. Who needs a Dxr3 decoder card when you have that fast CPU and video card. If anything the analog overlay will just distort your main graphics card's image quality (known issue with these type of DVD decoder cards). An Iomega Zip drive is useless, especially in a PC with a CD burner. Anyone's PC can read a CDROM, how many people do you know with Zip250 drives. Finally, a Soundblaster Live Platinum is a bit of a waste as well. You will most likely never use any of the I/O on that front panel.

Both their advertised systems are over $2500USD and don't include a monitor or speakers. Hello this is the 00's!! I think they are overpriced.

 

[DarkMajiq]

I really don't think those systems give you anything extra special for the high price, you'd be better off just building your own. If you're not comfortable doing that, try to find someone you know who can do it.