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I'm on my way to Hauptwerk! I've gone ahead and bought a similar model

In Reply to: RE: Computer recommendations: Buy or build posted by sogood on September 10, 2009 at 07:45:06:

sogood,

I appreciate your mentioning this seller- they seem to have very good deals. They have (9.10.09) one of the model you mentioned left. However, as I don't have the 64-bit OS lying around to load, nor a usable PCI Express 16 video card, and wanted to have 8GB RAM right away, I bought from the same firm their other quad core special deal:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=FQ550AA-R&cat=SYS

The HD is 640GB rather than 750, but anyway, I'll use that for OS, programmes, and samples sets, and a second, portable 320GB for recording.

When I took the price of your model ($370), added the OS (150), memory (140) and video card (80), it added up to $740 - noticeably more than the $600 (tax and shipping) for the model you bought.

Yesterday I'd looked at a used Dell XPS which was very similar, also a Q6600 quad core, 1T HD, 128MB video, and so on for $625, but it too needed the OS, so with tax and OS- that one would be over $800. That one did have the 8MB L2 cache- I forgot to ask what this one has.

This is only my 5th computer since 1993- they're more or less 3-4 year items in my use, but I've never had one that was performance oriented. This replaces a 1998 Dell Pentium 750 with 256MB of RAM- which cost something like $1,700 new.

I'm looking forward to it, although I'm not excited to have to have my first fuss with Vista just when it's on it's way out,..

Cheers,

Bambi B

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=FQ550AA-R&cat=SYS (Open in New Window)

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Topic - Computer recommendations: Buy or build - Bambi B 09:58:49 09/9/09 (9)

RE: Computer recommendations: Buy or build - sogood 07:45:06 09/10/09 (3)

I'm on my way to Hauptwerk! I've gone ahead and bought a similar model - Bambi B 09/10/0910:03:43 09/10/09 (1)

RE: I'm on my way to Hauptwerk! I've gone ahead and bought a similar model - sogood 10:46:55 09/10/09 (0)

WOW..that is a smokin good deal !!! - Gmood1 08:02:30 09/10/09 (0)

For best sound, "Build" is better - cics 14:15:50 09/9/09 (1)

Go for a mobo that offers integrated graphics that way you can avoid the extra video card. - Jon L 09:33:46 09/10/09 (0)

RE: Computer recommendations: Buy or build - Gmood1 13:12:10 09/9/09 (0)

RE: Computer recommendations: Buy or build - John Swenson 13:01:52 09/9/09 (0)

Per There site, Mac OS seems to work just fine - Dynaudio_Rules 10:05:23 09/9/09 (0)

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I'm on my way to Hauptwerk! I've gone ahead and bought a similar model - Bambi B 09/10/0910:03:43 09/10/09 (1)

RE: I'm on my way to Hauptwerk! I've gone ahead and bought a similar model - sogood 10:46:55 09/10/09 (0)

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