i bought an ACER 5100 with an AMD quad-core. was under $600 delivered, with most everything on it. came with good set of bells and whistles and an acceptable video card.. have little use for the quad core, or the speed, but at that price, it is difficult to buy much of anything for much less. we have only owned 4 or 5 ACERS, but have had good luck with them as an econobox.
the hardest part of setting the thing up is getting rid of all the "free" crap. At 12:43 PM 11/16/2008, you wrote: >I will be buying a new Dell computer next week and I'm a little confused about >all of the new processors even after reading wikipedia articles so I thought I >would ask you guys (always a big help in the past - THANKS very much and TIA >here too!). >So the question is - which processor would be best for me - best bang for the >buck? >Other than the internet I mostly use MS office and an older dos based >accounting program I need to keep. I don't play games or do any video or >photoshop stuff. >I will be replacing a 3 year old Dell OptiPlex 620 that has a 3.60 gigahertz >Intel Pentium 4, Windows XP and 2gb RAM. >Earlier this year I bought a Dell Optiplex 755 with a 3.00 gigahertz Intel >Core2 Duo (e8400 I think), Windows XP, 2gb RAM. >Comparing the two computers the Optiplex 755 with Core2 Duo is noticably >faster thank Pentium 4 when running several applications at the same time - >part of what I thought benefited the most from multi core processors. >Now I see all sorts of options for multi core processors. Will a quad core >processor likely make that much difference for me? What would be the best >bang for the buck in a new processor? >thanks for any help > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
