11-15-2010, 02:21 AM
(11-14-2010, 08:53 PM)MEAT Wrote: P.S., and 16gb of memory? Seriously, what do you need that for? Even 8gb seems excessive to me! Are these upcoming applications really utilizing that much memory at a time?
High end Dedicated 3D Rendering, Video Processing, Engineering Applications, and the occasional RAM-Disk, running games off ram directly is blazing...
I followed your OP link, and that is not a good computer even at the price listed (579$).
At Tomshardware.com they do system builder's contests and the 400$ rig would beat the refurbished at both prices:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gami...,2739.html
Its pretty ridiculous, but it does have a better GPU. If you're willing to spend 1000 follow their 1k Rig, which is MUCH superior in performance and still less than the fry's purchase.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/buil...,2735.html