Friday, October 10, 2008

Quick Tips to keep in mind before buying a new PC

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I had recently compiled a list of smart tips, which anyoen buying a new pc or laptop notebook should keep in mind. Although following thewse tips may be initially not tempting, but they'll add to your advantage later, during the time of upgradation.

Always go for an great decent performing sound card. These sound cards may be a bit costlier than their alternatives, but the sound they give even with the cheapest possible speakers, would be a hell more than what a combination of costly speakers and cheap sound card gives. Also, they'll give you the ultimate sound experience in movies and games. Costly speakers can only improve the output performance of what input the sound card sends it to process, they cannot improve the input. I personally use a Rs300 2.1 chinese speakers, but my soundcard is Creative Soundblaster(and still i can bet my room can be a pub or a disc any time you want,with any sort of party music playing giving the pub experience). I can go on with this combination for years now, as the sound reproduction this arrangement gives me at full volume is as good as almost the what a dolby digital cinema hall gives(and sometimes even a bit better). I can listen to even the most minutest sound detail in any track or audio clip, even with these cheap speakers, or even free headphones which i recieved from Kingfisher Airways during a flight.


Always go for a great graphics card. Note that their RAM must be a bit more than what most of the games require at the time of buying. A few hundred rupees would give you a longer time for using that card,and hence would easily delay the time before you upgrade that graphics card. I have NVIDIA RIVA TNT(which used to produced ages back,and NVIDIA hasn't provided any updates for it since 2001), but still it plays games upto NFS7 easily(and even some of the current day games without any upgradation).


Try to go for an integrated on-board branded graphics and sound card. This reduces the damage to these cards in case any electrical fault occurs. Also, this makes configuring these cards, and managing them much easier. I have all my cards on board, because of which i hardly have never configured these cards. They get configured automatically at the time of Windows installation, and same for Direct X.

Do a market check for which products are giving you the best performance. Products of different brands with the same technical specifications are priced almost similar, but a few bucks improves the performance many folds. So dont think much about saving a few bucks(if all that comes in your budget).

Do a research on what factors of a product are critical for a buyer. For example, the RMS output of a speaker is more important than its peak output, because what we hear is at RMS output, not peak output power. We'd like to pay for performance, not capability.

Mark out to what use do you want to put your new computer to. Buy only according to what if you need those set of features. For example, buying a gaming pc and using it in the office for presentations and ducuments is just a waste of money and resources.


Follow these tips and i can guarantee that you wont be unsatisfied about the new pc you buy. Hope you find these tips useful

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