<p>Costco!! you can return anything!! I mean ANYTHING!! and anytime, if they give you store credit just get another one there!</p>
<p>Celerons/Durons cannot compare to the flagship chips. However, if you are not looking to do gaming or do tons of encoding, a Celeron can be a good payoff in terms of price/performance. A lot depends on usage habits.</p>
<p>^ Yeah exactly. However, my bro uses his celeron for his gaming purposes and it serves him well and is addicted to it, of course. I'm not a big gamer and I just mostly use it for drawing and what not and it works well (photoshop is huge though)</p>
<p>Photoshop certainly benefits from the greater cache and bus speed of the Pentium/Athlon lines, but I've seen some benchmarks show that a well-built Celeron machine can perform well enough.</p>
<p>I'd never game on one though, but that's because I'm a bit of a framerate whore.</p>
<p>My celeron's not even new, and I just got Photoshop CS2... Huge assed thing that eats up alot of CPU but oh well, its working alright on it. And like i said, my bro's the computer geek so he didn't buy celeron not knowing about it... and he games on it and it works fine... (pretty new games too) I never game on my computer (or just old ones) so I dont have problems with it so i don't know much about gaming on it.</p>
<p>uyulove,</p>
<p>I'm sure that your brother knows what he's doing, but then again I doubt that he'd argue that Celeries don't stand up in gaming to the Pentiums/Athlons.</p>
<p>For the most part, it's not the end of the world though. Especially if you're on a budget.</p>
<p>newegg, mwave or dell (only when it has good deals).</p>
<p>Fry's Electronics ain't too bad.</p>
<p>UCLAri, I know that as well. Although its not as great as pentiums and so on, I'm just saying it does its job.</p>
<p>leave computers to the professionals guys. you guys cant know how to build custom computers, thats impossible, you guys cant be that smart.</p>
<p>leave it to the professionals in the geeksquad or at dell.</p>
<p>UB-Vinny77,</p>
<p>Speak for yourself. I've built many systems, and it's not really all that difficult. It's basically just getting all the components, screwing in some screws, plugging some things into slots, and switching the system on. </p>
<p>You really think it's hard to build a computer?</p>
<p>I know alot of people who built computer from scratch. never tried it myself but people got info from internet and apprantly they didn't find it all that difficult.. I mean long as you know your components, I don't think it should be all that difficult.. then again, that requires me to do things and I'm lazy.. LOL</p>
<p>Building a computer is not hard. Wish I could say the same for math.</p>
<p>^ LOL same here.</p>
<p>I was joking guys, Ive probrolly fixed and assembled over 3000 pc's in my carrer so far. Ive worked IT at my HS and am Currently a Computer Engineering major.</p>
<p>UB-Vinny,</p>
<p>Good. Thank God.</p>
<p>Newegg, like the previous posts. They charge only sales tax in CA I believe. Good prices and selection....everything from Acer to Fujitsu. I have ordered from Newegg numerous times and am always satisfied with my purchase. Amazon might be worth checking out too....they only charge sales tax in WA and ND.</p>