Buying a new home PC. Will you share some advice?

My needs:


*A lot of video editing/graphics


*sound mixing


*Microsoft suite (Word/Excel)


*CD/DVD burning


*Web hosting (more of a software issue...)


*Need to be able to share files with PC users





Budget is $1,500 - $2,000. Can't go over $2,000.





Thanks for your advice.Buying a new home PC. Will you share some advice?
I would go to www.cyberpowerpc.com to get the system. You'll get much more computer for your money than with Dell and an automatic 3 yr warranty at no extra cost. This place is kind of geared to gaming computers, but if you are going to be doing video editing and want good graphics, the needs are the same. Here are some specs which I feel will help you in your stated needs.





-Intel E6600 Core2 duo processor


-320 mb hard drive with 16mb cache (at least)


-If doing sound mixing, spring for the dedicated sound card.


-nVidia 7900 or higher video card with at least 256mb video ram. If prefer ATI video cards, go with X1950 or one of their All In Wonder cards for the video inputs.


-Dual layer dvd +/- r/rw drive. 2nd dvd drive convenient.


-2 gb RAM





They offer Microsoft Office as an option. Sharing files is controlled by you, right click on folder you wish to share and left click on ';Sharing and Security';





Good Luck!!Buying a new home PC. Will you share some advice?
Just don't buy a Dell, whatever you do. That's my only piece of advice.





I bought a Dell, high quality ... it has crashed 5 times already and no one at Dell support helps you. At all.





They are god awful computers, and the WORST customer service around.
U need gud graphix and sound cards.





U will need to buy microsoft office separetely.
For starters the MS Office is about $500. I paid around $400 for an upgrade to the new 2007 version. Computers don't come with that standard, you have to pay extra for that. Other than that, I think you're out of your budget. You could try Dell or HP or Systemax, or go to a private computer maker and have one specially built for you with your specs and needs. But again, I think what you want is out of your budget already.
go to dell.com they have many choices and provide excellent support. they have fairly competitive prices.
i wld recommend


XPS 710 %26amp;


XPS 710 H2C





The 710 H2C has a revolutionary 2-stage cooling and factory overclocked3 processors


Stunning 3D graphics performance with the latest single and dual graphics cards in the market available


The most configurable and expandable Dell consumer desktop available


starting at $1699 only....





for more details visit


http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/xpsdt?c=us%26amp;cs=19%26amp;l=en%26amp;s=dhs
HP Pavilion Media Center TV PC (M8020N)





鈥ntel Core 2 Duo E6420


鈥?40GB hard drive


鈥V tuner/recorder 鈥?GB of DDR2 memory


鈥urns DVDs and CDs


鈥indows Vista Home Premium





Add adobe indesign cs2 and ms office 2007, You are right in budget and it is a fast and powerful system for the $....I have a new Dell XPS 2010n And it does magic ....LOL Good luck and happy hunting
DELL will be the supreme choice but if u change ur mind about ur budget then IBM is the best