Can't get FIOS where I live and I don't want to pay the rates for cable at this time. If the prices were more reasonable I would do it but I would be paying about 2X what I am paying now.
Sorry I didn't mean to sound like a jerk. I pay a lot for my internet here in Toronto but compared to when I started using the internet with a 28800 baud modem, then a 56K, this is great. I remember when I had 8Mb cable internet I thought that was amazing but I wasn't really streaming video or downloading games. I hope to one day be able to afford gigabit internet. The infrastructure in my area is available for it. I just can't afford it. It is outrageously expensive, as is the modem you need for it. One day. Sigh.
I feel your pain
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Ouch. I remember when I was a teenager back around 1995 and my friend and I found out that there were "photos of interest to male teenagers" on the internet... and that the first one we looked at took like 25 minutes to load and I had my fingers hovering over ALT and F4 the entire time incase a parent came into the room LMAO those were the days.
Nope. The new computer is always so much better than the old computer. I run computers for two generations typically. The old PC becomes an HTPC or a server or something for a couple of years before it's finally stripped down and sold super cheap for parts. (Makes for some free parrot toys or food etc).
Your 4770 is fine. If you don't do any super heavy computation its fantastic. Great for gaming. Just get a better GPU and you'll be good for a couple of years yet.
Don't buy Dell computers. They suck. Build your own.
No offense, because I like you, I really do, but there is a difference between a computer being "not bad because it works" and knowing the quality of the parts and workmanship that goes into them. Dell, HP, Acer, Lenovo, they are built like crap. If they were houses they would be made of Elmer's wood glue and popsicle sticks and insulated with cotton candy. Yes, they work. Sometimes they work for a long time. But so does a Ford Fiesta. It's still a p.o.s. car.
No offense, because I like you, I really do, but there is a difference between a computer being "not bad because it works" and knowing the quality of the parts and workmanship that goes into them. Dell, HP, Acer, Lenovo, they are built like crap. If they were houses they would be made of Elmer's wood glue and popsicle sticks and insulated with cotton candy. Yes, they work. Sometimes they work for a long time. But so does a Ford Fiesta. It's still a p.o.s. car.
BTW My mom's powersupply died today. Case in point about crappy components. I built that thing on a shoestring budget and used a crap power supply. It lasted three years. Swapped it out this afternoon.
If you know how to troubleshoot, why are you buying prebuilt? If you had a custom machine you could have RMA'd the part you knew was bad without having to jump through Dell's hoops. I had a Dell once. The experience was a nightmare and the quality of the machine was gutter-grade. Never again. This was before I knew an awful lot and their solution to everything was to reinstall the OS with no attention payed to backing up data whatsoever. Dell is a joke. Michael Dell is quite the prick as well. I have heard stories.
