stromprophet
03-09-2008, 03:48 PM
I have a few questions....
1) Why are retailers not selling any PCs with DDR3 memory? (Also, how much better is DDR3 really at this point?)
2) Why are no retailers selling HPs with Blu-ray drives? And whose bright idea was it at HP to back HD-DVD drives as the standard, really, promote a combo drive if they were that scared. (Any HP I have seen at retail only offers an HD drive, I know you can get a blu-ray burner drive from HP directly, but you figure it might cut costs if it was in a PC bundle, right?)
3) Another thing is very few retailers are offering PCs with blu drives at all. I find that surprising given Best Buy decided to back Blu-ray exclusively a few weeks ago. What? Were their buyers not given instructions to start making purchases of PCs with blu-ray drives?
I've thought about building my own PC many a time, but a few things have always concerned me. It seems hard to keep costs down, financing is a joke (0% financing is beautiful), and warranties are limited, I know you get a manufacturers warranty, but this is only 1-year right?
Here's what I'm liking...
Intel Core Duo Quad 2.66 GHZ (The AMD quads are fine, but I question the ability of their company on all levels, from technical to customer support, and they may go bankrupt as well)
Nvidia 8800 GT 512mb (I know the 9000 are out, but I was thinking this is the best card for the price)
Blu-ray writer/player drive (do they offer upconversion on any of these? you know for DVDs?)
3 GB of DDR3 Ram
And an HDTV tuner. I'm very interested in recording HD off the TV and storing it on the PC. Especially for burning HD material (like HD sports would be great to burn and send to other people...)
Of course a widescreen, something affordable, I've heard 24" is optimal, but from my understanding of HD, on a screen that small HD is HD. So long as the refresh frequencies are the same I wouldn't think size would make any difference.
And all the usually stuff, card readers, flash ports, some nice 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound speakers.
On a hard drive it doesn't really matter to me, but 1TB would be about right.
1) Why are retailers not selling any PCs with DDR3 memory? (Also, how much better is DDR3 really at this point?)
2) Why are no retailers selling HPs with Blu-ray drives? And whose bright idea was it at HP to back HD-DVD drives as the standard, really, promote a combo drive if they were that scared. (Any HP I have seen at retail only offers an HD drive, I know you can get a blu-ray burner drive from HP directly, but you figure it might cut costs if it was in a PC bundle, right?)
3) Another thing is very few retailers are offering PCs with blu drives at all. I find that surprising given Best Buy decided to back Blu-ray exclusively a few weeks ago. What? Were their buyers not given instructions to start making purchases of PCs with blu-ray drives?
I've thought about building my own PC many a time, but a few things have always concerned me. It seems hard to keep costs down, financing is a joke (0% financing is beautiful), and warranties are limited, I know you get a manufacturers warranty, but this is only 1-year right?
Here's what I'm liking...
Intel Core Duo Quad 2.66 GHZ (The AMD quads are fine, but I question the ability of their company on all levels, from technical to customer support, and they may go bankrupt as well)
Nvidia 8800 GT 512mb (I know the 9000 are out, but I was thinking this is the best card for the price)
Blu-ray writer/player drive (do they offer upconversion on any of these? you know for DVDs?)
3 GB of DDR3 Ram
And an HDTV tuner. I'm very interested in recording HD off the TV and storing it on the PC. Especially for burning HD material (like HD sports would be great to burn and send to other people...)
Of course a widescreen, something affordable, I've heard 24" is optimal, but from my understanding of HD, on a screen that small HD is HD. So long as the refresh frequencies are the same I wouldn't think size would make any difference.
And all the usually stuff, card readers, flash ports, some nice 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound speakers.
On a hard drive it doesn't really matter to me, but 1TB would be about right.