Alright, excuse my ignorance, but can you tell me what Country you live in Decker?
I am very wary of prebuilt computers from HP and Dell thesedays.
Two sites which get tossed around here a lot because of how good they are: http://www.ibuypower.com/ and www.newegg.com
I like using ibuypower to see what my system will look like (for cases) and the decent choice of stuff they have.
Im saying about 650 US is the price you want?
For $670 off ibuypower you could get:
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This will probably be more expensive (not by much) than a prebuilt of the same specs, but I would go with it. Buying the individual componants and building it yourself is always cheaper, but I'm guessing thats not an option(Don't worry, it wasnt an option for me either until 5 months ago, I did a weeks work in an IT shop, was shown how to build a computer)
I'll try and explain a bit about the computer, feel free to correct me if I get stuff wrong guys (i should be working etc)
Your CPU has a clock speed (default speed set by the manufactor) that is measured in GHz. A single core CPU does 1-2 things at a time (threads). A program says to the CPU "Do this" a thread is used to do the calculation, which the program uses the result of and so forth. So, more cores, which means more threads, is good, especially when a program uses multi/hyper threading, which (as i understand it) is doing more than one thing at once (where as others would do one thing at a time, but its so fast we wouldnt notice normally anyway).
The Random Access Memory stores pieces of data off your Hard Drive in a faster location. Like you using a book to grab info for your test the next day. If you keep putting the book away, its slower to get it, open it instead of leaving it open in front of you. So the more memory you have, the more data you can store to get to it faster. The speed of the memory is also important, but thats another issue. The number after it is important as well (Someone may say that they have 2 gigabytes of DDR2 RAM. That is inferior to 2 gigabytes of DDR3 ram)
Your graphics card is like another CPU, it helps out the CPU by taking all the physics and graphics work, and doing it itself. It uses its own Memory with a different number than normal RAM (GDDR5 is the best).
The two major companies that manufacture CPU's are Intel and AMD Athalon. Intel have the upper hand in the CPU area right now.
For Graphics Cards, Nvidea and AMD are the two, Nvidea have the most power card out there, but AMD seems to have the better price in the mid-low end of scale. For the most part it is just personal choice, with the added fact that most games prefer Nvidea and the drivers with it.
I'm biased, as I'm only familar with the Intel and Nvidea side of things, but I think they are much better.And for the most part they are.
Sorry if I don't make much sense, let me know and I'll explain better.
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