I've been thinking of building my own computer. Is tiger direct a good source for parts?
any other places that have good prices ?
any other places that have good prices ?
Was at their new store on College a few saturdays ago and they actually had a bunch of customer service people, some even answering questions. Surprised the hell out of me. I guess they listened to complaints. There are lower prices out there but CC has a pretty good selection of high end stuff at good prices.everlast said:Also Canada computers is ok, as long as you don't need to communicate with someone and know what your looking for.
Well, with all that being said a lot of other factors come into play which will allow a celeron to perfom well. This includes but not limited to: video cards (and the detail settings of the games), amount of memory and type, HDD speeds, system bus speed, TSRs, sound cards, and I would have to say the most IMPORTANT factor would be the quality of your MOBO. Put a celeron into a nice ASUS P4P or better and it will perfom well but for the most part, when you buy a cheap celeron system, that's what you get, a cheap celeron system.thirdtime said:Hyper-threading only works for applications written to take advantage of it.
It is NOT the same as having dual processors or even close.
I built a gaming system for my son 3 years ago using a Celeron 1.7 Ghz and I'm blown away with the performance it has. He plays on line games like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor and the performance really impresses me. It's the older PIII Celerons and earlier that were dogs.
Unless you're running some really intensive video applications or conversions, I'd have a second look at the newer Celerons. The performance will surprise you.