# Desktop Computer ( what to get?)

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**Created:** [February 26, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/desktop-computer-what-to-get/202024 "2009-02-26T20:22:21Z")\
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If I were you I would make sure you get the new I7 processors… They blow everything out of the water and fix a lot of the traditional bottlenecks in the Intel Architecture. Here is Dell’s offering for the I7’s: [http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/desktop-xps-730x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs](http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/desktop-xps-730x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs)

> [@which HD to get](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-hd-to-get/39735/3):
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> The only problem with MOST of the Dells/HPs are that there are serious restrictions that can be overlooked. Basically they will put a blazing fast processor and lots of RAM but it means nothing when it is bottlenecked through:
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> 1.) Slow Ram Speed  
> 2.) Slow motherboard Front Side Bus  
> 3.) Slow Hard Drive (raptors used to be great, I got a Western Digital Caviar Black 750gb for $60 on newegg.) pretty much the hype of hd’s right now for the money.
> 
> I would say custom build if you aren’t in a super rush. Portatech ships out pretty fast.

In the new architecture RAM speed and FSB go out the Window. I personally hate Raptors, if you need i/o performance put your OS in a RAID 0+1 and be done with it.

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