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Article #191681Re: Need help with PC purchase
From: Darrel Hoffman
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:58
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:58
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My $0.02: Nobody needs a 1.4 GHz processor right now... You'd probably end up spending way too much. My basic philosophy is always buy the second best, because it's a hell of a lot cheaper, and the best one will just get surpassed by the next thing in a couple of months anyhow. -- Baroness Brimstone, lvl 52 Pyromaniac Sorceress Dame Volta, lvl 28 Struggling Lightning Sorceress Frost, lvl 18 Cookie Cutter Ice Sorceress Dame Leiala, lvl 31 Retired General Sorceress Baroness Xena (My brother named her), lvl 51 Pikazon Nightcrawler, lvl 19 Oblivion Knight Wannabe A bunch of others characters. --- "Chris Youngblood" <zel...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:3A3A3E0B.11F053EB@bellsouth.net... > I will soon purchase myself a brand new PC. I can't decide if I want to > go with a Dell system with nice extras and a P4 1.4 GHz processor, or a > Falcon NorthWest system with the same extras but a P3 900 MHz. I hear > Falcon NW puts out the best gaming computers (I like games) but I have > always heard good things about Dell as well. Does anyone have any input > to help me make a decision? Or suggestions on another maching? > > Zelomax
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!216.227.56.88.MISMATCH!telocity-west!TELOCITY!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!chnws02.mediaone.net!chnws05.ne.mediaone.net!24.128.8.202!typhoon.ne.mediaone.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Darrel Hoffman" <iill...@mediaone.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.quake3,alt.games.half-life,alt.games.unreal.tournament,alt.games.starsiege.tribes,alt.games.everquest,alt.games.diablo,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.computer,alt.computer.consultants References: <3A3A3E0B.11F053EB@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: Need help with PC purchase Lines: 27 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Message-ID: <mcr_5.1106$I9.23654@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:58:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.91.54.38 X-Complaints-To: ab...@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 976895890 24.91.54.38 (Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:58:10 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:58:10 EST Organization: Road Runner MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit