Who has best prices for PC games?

Q. I used to buy computer games in retail stores, but started to use Steam recently. Now I found out that there are other online stores that let you buy PC games and download them. Which store is best, and why? What are the choices?

Answer
Right now there are many online stores offering PC games for download. It is worth to shop around because they all have competitive prices and many special promotions with huge discounts on individual titles or game bundles. Try these: Direct2Drive, GamersGate, GameDownloads, Impulse, GamesForWindows, GamePlanet, GameTap

If you want to quickly find the best deal on a game, to go GameDealAlerts.com - it is a service that aggregates prices from most of the above stores and even allows you to subscribe to email notification when game(s) you are interested in further drops in price.

Is this a good gaming PC for the price?

donaldblak

I'm thinking of buying this PC from HP that I will have custom built and was wondering if it will be a good PC for the money. The specs are:

Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Quad processor Q6600 (2.4GHz)
4GB DDR2-667MHz dual channel SDRAM (4x1024)
512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT, TV-out, DVI-I, HDMI
250GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
LightScribe 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive
Windows Vista Ultimate

All together this PC is 1,590.00 after savings and rebates. I was going to build one myself, but with no experience I thought it would be better to have someone build it for me. Is this a good deal and how good of a PC is it (I know it's pretty good, just want some opinions)?
I forgot to mention that it did come with a TV tuner. I'm not really a hardcore gamer, so the video card should last me for a while, but if I ever have the money to blow someday, I'll probably get a top of the line video card.

Answer
You forgot to mention one thing...what you will be using the PC for?

If you don't edit RAW uncompressed digital video/audio/photos or play the newest games, there is no reason for that processor or 4gb of RAM.

The video card is bottom of the barrel, the last generation 7600GT is much faster at $85.

A single 250gb hard drive at with a quad/4gb RAM system? That's completely retarded and idiotic considering 320gb Seagates are only $80 and 400gb are $100.

A single DVD burner?
They're only $30.

What power supply?
What motherboard?
Does this include monitor?

Anyway you look at it, this PC was put together buy a retard. It's all mismatched and bottlenecked. It has a quad and 4gb of RAM, yet a bottom of the barrel single hard drive and graphics card?

Doesn't make since.

Let me add this up for you from newegg.com prices:
$559 Q6600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
$148 4gb of DDR2 667
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609219
$64 8500GT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150231
$27 DVD burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136119
$67 250gb hard drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144701

"Name Brand" builders use extremely cheap micro-atx motherboards, cases and power supplies. Probably something like this:
$70 motherboard
$20 Case
$40 Power supply

For a TOTAL of $995 if you built it to their specs yourself.


Do yourself a favor and decide what you really use your PC for and don't waste $1,500 for a mismatched PC. You can build a great gaming PC for $1,000ish. Or a killer media/home theater PC for $1,000 with a terabyte or so of storage.

And go for a full, top grade aluminum case like Lian-Li, not the cheezy steel/plastic crap that Dell and HP give you:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=50001375+40000007+1054908325&Configurator=&Subcategory=7&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=
http://www.lian-li.com/index.php

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