whiteslashasian
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I decided to go to the Dell Outlet refurb site.
For $550, I ordered a refurb Dell Vostoro 3500, Core-i5, 3g DDR2, 320 gig HD, and discrete Geforce 310M video (512MB).
Probably going to run just as fast as my x4 Propus 630 desktop.
I don't like having 3 gigs of ram though that's stupid. If I want 4, which I'm sure I will, I'll have a leftover 1g chip.
The same laptop with 4 gigs cost 50 bucks more.
Sounds like a good deal. I was going to suggest going for a 210 or 310 from nVidia. Miles better than the Intel stuff with all the lovely Linux compatability that ATI lacks.
Is the OS 64bit? Otherwise that last gig is kinda pointless...
Ram is cheap. I think I saw a 4gb (4gb x 1) DDR3 SODIMM chip for $40 recently.
It does suck about the Bulldozer lack of compatability with the current AM3 socket. Apparently the new AM3+ mobo's will support all older AM3 procs though... Thankfully AMD mobo's are far less expensive than the Intel counterparts and you don't have to buy a new mobo EVERY SINGLE GENERATION (wtf Intel???)
I was tempted to buy a new HD 6950 card, which can be BIOS flashed to the top of the range HD 6970 (very low fail rate, dual bios prevents bricking!) for only $290. I abstained because it will be a while before Bulldozer is released and the rest of my system would be a huge bottleneck as is...and I don't think the HD 6950 would fit in my mATX case....
Will be getting one of these to house my next build (******* expensive!):
Aluminum unibody construction, sound dampened panels.
Air is drawn in from the bottom through 3 180mm fans and blown out the top.
Quad GPU lolz (I just realized that this is the Raven, sister to the FT02, very similar on the inside):