The Truth About Space Empires IV

[Phoenix-D]

The note about graphics/sound/harddrive space applies to desktops, but it doesn't really apply to gaming machines.

There you 100% DON'T want to do the cheapest option unless its actually an old part that's been reduced- often the bottom of the line parts are, ah, [censored], and the previous generation works much better.

That and gaming machines typically need more graphics more and -sometimes- HD space than plain desktop machines.

[David E. Gervais]

Doh! I forgot, my brother also bought a new DVD/CDRW combo 52/32/52. the old computer has a separate DVD player and CDRW. so he saved on space and the DVD/CDRW combo only cost him 59$

Cheers!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

David E. Gervais said:
Narf, all cars can fly, you just need a very high cliff to launch it from.

That's not flying, that's falling.

Will said:
Eh, I don't know about the "$1000 for what everyone's getting rid of". I built my current one for $1300 a year ago, and that's including LCD monitor, surround speakers. Since then, it got mangled by UPS, and I built it again with the insurance check and some salvaged parts, so I have right now:

P4 3.4GHz on an Intel board
1GB PC2700 (I bought this for an AMD processor, so that's why the lower speed)
gForce 5900 128MB DDR
MAYA 5.1 Surround Card
40 GB HDD
160 GB HDD
LiteOn DVD+/- Burner
Altec Lansing 5.1 surround speakers
17" LCD screen
Epson C66 Inkjet

Where do you buy from?

[David E. Gervais]

I beg to differ Narf, it's flying up until the moment of harsh landing. (of course, the sudden decelleration will be drastic and punishing.)

Cheers!

I see your silly and raise you two degrees of sanity. Muahahahahaha.

[Fyron]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Where do you buy from?

My guess would be any combination of directly from the hardware manufacturers, Online stores which sell at discounts, or computer fairs. Any of these sources will allow you to buy the hardware and assemble the PC yourself at often _half_ the cost of buying an equal PC from a PC manufacturer would (especially from the insidious likes of Dell). Sure you don't get the tech support from that company, but the tech support is often only good at reading scripts anyways... Nearly all pieces of hardware will have warranties provided by the manufacturer, so you can just get replacement parts from them if something fails (within 1-3 years or however long the warranty is).

[narf poit chez BOOM]

David E. Gervais said:
I beg to differ Narf, it's flying up until the moment of harsh landing. (of course, the sudden decelleration will be drastic and punishing.)

Cheers!

I see your silly and raise you two degrees of sanity. Muahahahahaha.

Nope. For an object to be flying, it has to be substantially altering it's course by it's own power. A car's wheels provide to little air friction to even minimally alter it's course. And it is not gliding, because a car's body also provides too little lift to minimally alter it's trajectory. You're the silly. It's falling.

[Atrocities]

Will what do you mean "mangled" by UPS? Did they run over you computer or something?

[Captain Kwok]

Atrocities said:
Will what do you mean "mangled" by UPS? Did they run over you computer or something?

Same thing happened to my computer, sort of, when I shipped it with UPS - when I got it somehow they had managed to knock the CPU chip out its slot!!! Anyways, problem was easily fixed but boy was I mad about that!

[Atrocities]

NEVER - ship your PC. Man what were you guys thinking? If you have to ship something like that, you fill it full of foam or an old towel. They knock them around horridly. Besides I have had a lot of thing stolen while being shipped via UPS. We ordered four pistols for our shop once, two day delivery, when they arrived two weeks later, two of the four were missing, and the remaining two were missing their clips and barrels. UPS did not accept responsiblity for it, despite the fact that the shipment was IN THEIR CARE. Needless to say, I was not the only deal to have this happen. Since they were purchased via the business visa, visa covered the theft.

I ordered Dungeon Odessy and what I got was an empty wet evelop with a tire mark on it. Shrapnels great customer service handled the problem for me. Thank guys. I think that on was shipped FedX.

UPS, FEDX, USPS, none of them care about the package, all they care about is the quota to get the done. So ship at own risk now.

[Arkcon]

A friend told me this story. He was entering his place of work on Wall St. When he heard a *BANG*. He flinched and ran -- because it sounded like a gunshot. Again and again. *BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

It was the UPS guy ... unloading computer monitors. He was delivering them, so I assume they survived.

Maybe they know something about packaging materials that we don't. Or just don't care.