{"id":1001180,"date":"2008-05-20T22:34:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001180"},"modified":"2008-05-20T22:34:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T03:34:18","slug":"shopping-for-a-gaming-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/videogames\/2008\/05\/20\/shopping-for-a-gaming-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping for a Gaming PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’ve decided I’n Bored of Warcraft, and want to play Age of Conan. That means a new PC with some pretty hefty requirements (2GB DDR RAM, 2.4 GHz dual core or better, and an NVidia 7950 or better). Anyone want to suggest something?<\/p>\n

I would like to pay under $1000 for the rig (monitor, keyboard, etc. not included). I will not pay over $2000 and I probably won’t pay that much. I prefer XP to Vista. I don’t want to build my own system (though I might resort to that if I have to). If I order off the web, I definitely want one that ships fast. Otherwise I want to buy off the shelf at Fry’ or some other local dealer.
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CyberPower seems like the cheapest, but has too many horror stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alienware is pretty expensive, but has one really bad horror story<\/a>. (I could live with that one if they were priced in the same ballpark as CyberPower.) <\/p>\n

Dell is a little expensive at $1199, and not as reliable as they used to be<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I am looking for a whitebox vendor in my neighborhood. Anyone know if they’re any of those computer dealer shows that take place in high school gyms coming up in Orange County anytime soon? <\/p>\n

Suggestions of specific systems at particular vendors are especially appreciated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’ve decided I’n Bored of Warcraft, and want to play Age of Conan. That means a new PC with some pretty hefty requirements (2GB DDR RAM, 2.4 GHz dual core or better, and an NVidia 7950 or better). Anyone want to suggest something? I would like to pay under $1000 for the rig (monitor, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}