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Old 11-26-09   #1 (permalink)
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Which should I buy? My dad is gives me ~ $100 to buy something from Black Friday. I know $100 is not a lot(normally) but with Black Friday, there's lots of possibilities for me.
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WD Green 1.5TB-$89
I can use it as a gaming storage HDD, which I would consider since I have one of the original 7200.11 500GBs, so bricking possibility and I don't want to lose my games that aren't STEAM bought.
*I'm going to short stroke it to 500GB, since I don't need all the extra space, but I will still be able to get short stroke performance, instead of a 500GB WD green or 640GB WD Black.
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Asus 20"-$89AR
I'm considering it since I still have a 4:3 monitor, and I'm getting quite tired of being part of the minority still having a tiny 17" monitor with a gaming computer. The only downfall is that it's a 1600x900 monitor instead of 1920x1080, which I'd prefer
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Dell S2209W refurb-$120
Just another monitor I'm considering, I'm leaning toward this since its' 1920x1080. But I'm not sure what it contains besides the monitor. If someone could fill me in on what it ships with, it'd be really helpful.
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Sceptre 22"-$120
Possible, but it's kind of the lowest of my consideration, since I never heard of the brand. But I heard that it gives decent bang for the buck.
Or, I can just screw that, and just buy new released games off of STEAM.
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get a dell s2209 refurb.
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Get the Dell or Sceptre monitor. And don't short stroke a single hard drive, it really won't give you a whole bunch of added performance in my opinion...especially if its just a storage drive.
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And don't short stroke a single hard drive, it really won't give you a whole bunch of added performance in my opinion...especially if its just a storage drive.
True, true, but right after I posted, I was considering getting the 640GB and Borderlands or some other game.
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1.5TB drive and torrents torrents torrents!!!
I don't torrent, my brother does that for me.
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