Looking to purchase new mid range gaming pc. Any helps and advices appreciated!

[NightGizmo]

I've heard many others say this ^ too. Wondering > why not McAfee?
Being a near computer illiterate (never used a computer until 5yrs. ago) I've always used McAfee, mostly just because it came with the first Dell laptop I had & also because I've never experienced any problems.
I've heard it's a bit of a resource hog, but anyother reasons (please don't flame & SCREAM at me.... go easy on me)

A few years ago, Mcafee was pretty good. But somehow they managed to screw up their software pretty badly, and now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

- It's a resource hog and slow to scan. It scans weekly and runs until it is done, using up a lot of CPU in the process. It got so bad on my brother's computer that it would use up 100% of his CPU for 2 days straight, every week.
- Updates frequently require reboots (frequently == a few times a month). Sometimes Mcafee would make you reboot, and then 5 minutes after rebooting you were forced to reboot again by Mcafee due to another update.
- The software constantly nags you to pay for upgrades and add-ons, popping up at random times and interrupting your work. This is something I hate -- I paid for the software I want, stop harassing me trying to get more money out of me.
- In the past couple of years they have had some serious bugs pushed out to customers. Most recently (a few months ago) an update broke networking on many computers, requiring a manual fix to be able to connect to the Internet again.

[Poker Orifice]

- It's a resource hog and slow to scan. It scans weekly and runs until it is done, using up a lot of CPU in the process. It got so bad on my brother's computer that it would use up 100% of his CPU for 2 days straight, every week.
- Updates frequently require reboots (frequently == a few times a month). Sometimes Mcafee would make you reboot, and then 5 minutes after rebooting you were forced to reboot again by Mcafee due to another update.
- The software constantly nags you to pay for upgrades and add-ons, popping up at random times and interrupting your work. This is something I hate -- I paid for the software I want, stop harassing me trying to get more money out of me.

- I just set mine to scan manually, setting it to do so at night once I'm finished for the day
- the Updates frequently thing... yah this is the pain the ass, causes my computer to temporarily lag & has happened while in big hands >> Now I just turn off 'automatic updates' anytime I'm doing something important (like playin' the pokerzz, lol).. then back on again when just dk'n around (like right now). I get ya though. Before finally realizing to do this... it did suck
- I've never had any pop-ups of any kind ever? I'd surely be tilting if I did (ie. like a Titan support window popping up on my screen in the middle of a tourney, lol.. wtf is that?)

Thanks for the response though. I've been wondering cuz I hear it often, from many. I use software essentials on one of my other puters, but the rest are all McAfee. For me it's been good... but I don't really have any experience with others to compare it to (only listening to friend's experiences with their av software).

For me when I first got it, it just seemed real easy to use.. especially for a computer idiot.. err.. umm I mean 'illiterate'.

One thing that did piss me off with McAfee. This past year I went to re-new, and they wanted to charge me full price.. after giving me 50% off each year for the past few years. I refused, telling them > give me the same deal for renewal as last year & it's a done deal, otherwise forget it. They finally agreed to the deal, 4mos. after expiry, lol. Too late, buddy who works at computer store gave me one from there for $20 (< same guy I'm asking to build puter for me).

I'm getting more jealous reading your post Leg. & yes.. 'pics. please' (just spent another couple hours reading up on & checking out diff. stuff on the internetzzz... fk.. I'm hooked!!!).