Can anyone seriously tell me the price of a good PC in USA?
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a decent PC with the most basic components can be found as low as $400USD but according to your specifications I'd be prepared to spend at least $1300USD if you're lucky to find a price. Dell allows for a lot of custamization they have a very reasonable payment plan ($20-$40USD a month) and have decent technical support allow for later upgrades that are relatively easy to do yourself (I installed a CD-RW drive myself with very little hassle and spent under $30)\n\nPS: what country you from?
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Check out HP.  They have very good prices starting at $249.  You can upgrade to a faster pc and get one for under $700.
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For anyone looking for a monster laptop without extreme pricing, I'd suggest www.xoticpc.com\n\nYou can customize a very powerful machine and less cost than alot of the competition.  When they start putting out dual core machines running Vista, I'll be buying from them.
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You can do pretty well buying components from http://www.newegg.com\n\nI buy all my computer parts from them.  If you need an operating system, or a monitor, that will add to your cost, but if not, you could get some decent components for $500 for sure.\n\nI consistently buy "very good" components and build computers for that kind of a price.  They are pretty darn nice systems, but not entirely top of the line.  Thing about top of the line components is  that they are only slighty better than the cheaper components, but cost exponentially more money.  Better deal to go with stuff that isn't quite the best thing out there if you ask me. \n\nSpend money where it is due, but don't spend extra money on things that don't really make that much difference in a computer.  In order to keep your costs down, buy an inexpensive computer case, standard cd or dvd drive, a reliable but inexpensive motherboard, etc.  The areas to spend money are the processor and the video card if you ask me.  Everything else is trivial compared to the kind of performance those items will give you.  Yes you can get certain performance boosts out of better RAM, Hard Drives, Motherboards, etc, but again, most of your boosts for gaming will come from your CPU and your Video Card.\n\nI recently bought a bunch of AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processors from newegg, which came as a combo deal with a motherboard for free.  The whole package with CPU and Motherboard was only $99.00.  There are definitelty deals to be found.\n\n~Kyle
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I buy computer equipment from two sites and nowhere else (ever).\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com\nhttp://www.newegg.com\n\nYou can usually get a decent PC from either of those for half (or less) of what you'd pay at Best Buy or Circuit City.
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Try Shopping http://www.newegg.com  their you will also get good pricing and customer reviews from people that own them\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com also has good pricing but watch out for their customer service it is not verry good if you have a problem.
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Latest and greatest is expensive, but here ya go...\n\nProcessor:  Intel® Pentium® D Processor Extreme Edition 965 w/ HT 3.73GHz 1066MHz FSB\nMotherboard:  NVidia nForce™4 SLI™ X16 Motherboard\nVideo Card:  Dual 512MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7900 GTX - SLI Enabled \nRAM Memory:  4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 x 1024MB \nHard Drives:  1TB (500GB x 2) Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 32MB Cache\nCD/DVD-ROM:  16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive w/LightScribe Technology\nSound:  Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi® Elite Pro High Definition 7.1 Audio with XRAM Technology\n\nThis package, not including case, keyboard, mouse or monitor will run roughly $4,000.
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Dell.com without a doubt. I've heard experts from Geek Squad say this every time they do an interview on the radio, plus I have one myself, and many of my friends do too. If you call you can specify what you need and don't need so you don't pay for anything you already have, such as a good mouse or keyboard, or even monitor if you have a new one. A lot of times they run free shipping which will save you  almost $100. I would check the website daily for a week or so to get an idea what a good price is as they change often, but with research you can get a great computer at a great price.
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Dell or PC World... if you do go to PC World, the advent ones are cheap and cheerful... don't let them talk you into buying anything else for it though (unless its a bag and you want one)!!
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www.tigerdirect.com  has great priced PC products....
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If you are looking for the best deal Dell is the perfect place. I did some research when i was buying my computer and Dell truly has some good offers.
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The age doesn't matter, it's the planned usage you will want to know.  What do they plan to use the computer for?  Web surfing, music, word processing, etc does not require a powerful system.  Gaming, digital imaging, conquering the world - these are what require power machines.  \n\nI would get them a decent, but budget, prebuilt system.  Preferrably an HP, Compaq, or EMachine (all HP basically since Compaq builds Emachines and HP owns Compaq).  They will come with a recovery partition that will reset the computer to the "out-of-box" setting should anything go wrong.  Some even allow you to keep software and personal files.  Much easier than reformatting, and quicker.\n\nGateway's are crap.  They gave me faulty RAM modules, then when I asked about the type (since it wasn't included in the documentation) they said I HAD to buy it from them to insure compatibility and it would be $184 for a 128MB stick.  I said I have something you can 'stick' somewhere.  Anyway, I went to Circuit City and got some RAM that works fine.  Turns out it was 128MB 100/66MHz RAM in their system.  Not sure about the other specifics.\n\nThat is my parents' computer BTW...they are mid-40s.  They need a new one, too - so while you're at it if you could pick up a decent Celeron-based PC or something for them. - j/k.
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Most 'Pound Shops' sell them, HyperValue, PC World. They are cheap enough.
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Check out these computers at Overstock.com:\n\nhttp://www.overstock.com/?page=proframe&prod_id=1726379\nhttp://www.overstock.com/?page=proframe&prod_id=1135804\nhttp://www.overstock.com/?page=proframe&prod_id=493403\nhttp://www.overstock.com/?page=proframe&prod_id=472618\nhttp://www.overstock.com/?page=proframe&prod_id=483330
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check http://www.pricewatch.com \nthey usually have links to just about every bit of hardware known to man.
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Defintely buy from Dell. www.dell.com  They have great products for a good price.  You can pick up a good quality computer for under $500.
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Let us know what the closest main city is for help.  I find local computer places are much better than the big box stores.  Especially price-wise.  Look in your yellow pages for a store that services computers and sells re-furbished ones.  They're the ones that will use the parts they have on hand instead of trying to sell you special order stuff, or a whole new computer for that matter.