Are retail PCs really this bad, nowadays? (1 Viewer)

[Shane Martin]

I can also recommend HP. My gaming buddies who are tired of building their pcs every year(they upgrade alot) just buy a new HP and slap a video card with more ram in it and away they go.

Honestly building one is the way to go IMHO. You can do it in less than a few hours if you are good at it and careful.

 

[Andrew Bunk]

Curious, do the new HP's support PCI x16 for the graphics card? I would think most gamers wound want that now since the latest graphics card seem to be favoring that interface.

 

[DaveF]

This happened at work recently. A three year old Dell, which was working last anyone had seen it, was pulled out of storage for my use. I recabled it, and it was just dead. In this case, there the PSU fan limped on, and the power/HD lights blinked softly.

Dell support came onsite and replaced the MB and PSU, and all was well again. Off failure; hadn't seen that before.

I'm suprised to hear the support for HP PCs. I thought they weren't particularly good, but it's good to hear otherwise.

 

[Rommel_L]

The Dell XPS 400 is a decent low-mid level gaming rig. The hardware is decent but the software setup is terrible. Any true gamer worth his/her salt ALWAYS tweak EVERYTHING first, make sure everything is optimized, then play his/her favorite game.