You might want to ask around your office and find out who the resident computer hardware nut is. You can usually get much more for your money by NOT going through Dell. He (or she) is usually a helpful individual who will build you a box, provided you know what you want inside.
My advice is to take a look at what software you're planning to run - more specifically, at the minimum requirements said software needs to run. As far as the work & play angle, it's the playing that has traditionally pushed the development of the nicer hardware. But that's not always the case. Anyway, find out which program out of the ones you're likely to run is the biggest user of computer resources, and then aim somewhere ahead of that, just so your box isn't completely out of date in a month.
If you need more insight, try checking out this article:
That's a great website for checking out just what the hardware buzz is, btw. Good place to start, anyway. Do some looking around, and you'll have a better idea of what to look at. And for god's sake, whatever you do, don't skimp on the memory.
Though, I allready for a new computer a month or so ago.
Dad's my local hardware parson, though he usually works with computers good for programming rather than graphics.
What I got was something from dell that met the minimum of what I needed (one of the cheaper XPS systems), then bought the rest of the parts from places like pricewatch.
Now I got a nice gamer pc for a pretty small amount of money with nearly 400 gigs to play with and a really nice graphics and sound card.
My advice is to take a look at what software you're planning to run - more specifically, at the minimum requirements said software needs to run. As far as the work & play angle, it's the playing that has traditionally pushed the development of the nicer hardware. But that's not always the case. Anyway, find out which program out of the ones you're likely to run is the biggest user of computer resources, and then aim somewhere ahead of that, just so your box isn't completely out of date in a month.
If you need more insight, try checking out this article:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1644411,00.asp
That's a great website for checking out just what the hardware buzz is, btw. Good place to start, anyway. Do some looking around, and you'll have a better idea of what to look at. And for god's sake, whatever you do, don't skimp on the memory.
Good Luck! And lemme know how you're doing.
~Danny
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Though, I allready for a new computer a month or so ago.
Dad's my local hardware parson, though he usually works with computers good for programming rather than graphics.
What I got was something from dell that met the minimum of what I needed (one of the cheaper XPS systems), then bought the rest of the parts from places like pricewatch.
Now I got a nice gamer pc for a pretty small amount of money with nearly 400 gigs to play with and a really nice graphics and sound card.
Yay.
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