Quote Originally Posted by Egapal View Post
You are terribly, horribly wrong on both counts. Unless you have money to basically throw away there is definitely such thing as overkill. Let say you go out and get that super new computer. You spend a bunch of time configuring everything and you are playing WOW and life is good. Now your friend comes over and says what did you spend on that rig. You say $1,500. Next day you head over to your friends and they are playing WOW on their $500 dollar computer. (remember the OP is talking about just the computer, not a monitor) You think well my WOW game is definitely crisper. Whats that next to your friends computer "Oh yeah I got a new ipad too. Oh and did you see my new Bumble Bee BP." I am not saying that the $1500 computer isn't going to be faster and totally awesome and all that. What I am saying is that at the end of the day its a lot of money to spend on technology that will be half that price next year. Unless you "need" it, its overkill. So decide how much you really want that screaming new machine.

Oh yeah and Dell customer support is no worse than any of the other big names in my experience. There business support is great.
Well it's also in reference to priorities... for die hard gamers, the statement about no computer buying and usage is overkill, is a valid statement... for someone that doesn't play video games as hardcore, and spend more time with the snakes and music (ipod/ipad etc) would probably completely disagree with that statement...

I have since this post decided on a build that costs like 800 dollars... which is good for me Intel I5 dual core 3.4 ghz, 4 gb of ddr3, 1/5tb hd, and a nvidea geforce gtx 460 (fermi) graphics card... basically much less than what I had planned before and not a SUPER COMPUTER, but it will run WoW better than my last computer and I will still have another 800 bucks for other things

(I don't know if I mentioned that I am shopping on a budget of 1,600 dollars... which is refund money from my college... so it's free money... that I get back... AFTER I pay for my classes, books, and special lab fees... )