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Originally Posted by catchaserguns
my old machine died on me and I'm thinking of getting a Dell. I saw a refurbished dell Optiplex 520GX with 750g on its HD and 4g of Ram for a killer price. I would like some advice and possible warnings so I can make an informed decision.
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What's actually died on your PC?
As Juanca said it's not that difficult to build a PC and if your on a tight budget you might be able to keep the cost down by using some parts from your old PC even if it's only the case, CD/DVD drive and maybe power supply unit, I couldn't recommend the Dell as they are usually over priced for what you get and if you buy the components they should all come with at least a 12 month warranty which costs nothing.
An easy option is to buy a motherboard bundle that many companies put together, that's the motherboard, the CPU and often the RAM as well, that way you can be sure the components work together and if you have any problems you only have one company to deal with.
If you think you would like to build your own PC I would definitely say "Try it" you will learn a lot and you will save yourself money by being able to fix, build and upgrade your PC's in the future.