Weekly Buyer's Guide: Mid-Range System - April 2004
by Evan Lieb on April 22, 2004 7:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Keyboard and Mouse
While trivial, it's still important that you purchase the right keyboard and mouse. Different people have different preferences for a keyboard's look and feel, and the same goes for a mouse. Therefore, we suggest that you personally try out a keyboard and mouse for yourself. Recommending purchasing these items online is misleading, as there are too many users with different preferences for this type of thing. Visit your nearest PC outlet to try out a keyboard and mouse yourself; a PC Club, Best Buy, CompUSA, or Circuit City store will do. We suggest that you start with Microsoft and Logitech keyboards and mice. Make sure you also check out optical mice from Microsoft and Logitech as well. A good solid optical mouse from either manufacturer should run about $20, but in some cases, can run as little as $10 if you can find the right deal.If you cannot find the lowest prices on the products that we've recommended on this page, it's because we don't list some of them in our RealTime pricing engine. Until we do, we suggest that you do an independent search online at the various vendors' web sites. Just pick and choose where you want to buy your products by looking for a vendor located under the "Vendor" heading.
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SKiller - Thursday, April 22, 2004 - link
#3 Close, I was thinking the A64 2800+ at $170.Also, why is a midrange system <$1000?
To me low end ~ $500-$1000, mid range ~ $1000-$1750, and high end ~ $1750-$2500.
KillaKilla - Thursday, April 22, 2004 - link
Unfortunately you can't edit posts ala the forums...Another suggestion: putting in the alternatives in the summary, this way we see what they would cost, all together.
Also, why is the 2.8C recommended over, say, the Athlon 64 3000+? While only about $50 more, it offers a very noticable gain in performance and compatability (the A64, unlike i86, will run future 64 bit OSes and apps).Check the forums, a 2.8C is almost never recomended, except posibly for OCing... and even that may cahnge with the release of the Nforce 3 with working PCI/AGP lock.
KillaKilla - Thursday, April 22, 2004 - link
I dont get the order of impertance, really, they should replace 'midrange' with 'performance'Most people who come here would probobly not get the midrange system for email, webbrowsing, wrod processing, etc. (reliability minded things).
They'd probobly want a bang for buck machine that can play most current games at high settings and future games at medium to low settings.
mlittl3 - Thursday, April 22, 2004 - link
If would be nice if you guys benchmarked these recommended systems. A nice comparison using the usually benchmark tests comparing the entry, mid, high and overclocked systems would show how much bang for your buck you get.If its a matter of time, then some simple logical way of showing that these systems are worth the money other than just looking up prices and giving us technical specs.
An example might be tomshardware.com's fbucks that they used in their VGA charts III article. Total benchmark score divided by price or something like that.
Just a thought.