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Postby post-it » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:05 pm

the Black Monarch wrote:... Go dual-CPU if you can ...
X2

however, if your not sure of what to look for, then go with a company that
has been in the Computer market for many-many years ... HP

http://hardware.gamespot.com/Compaq-X-G ... 3224-O-1-2
is a bare-bones type of computer that you can alway update at a later time.

8-) besides being around for many years, they "back" what they sell.
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Postby klinky » Sun Dec 12, 2004 4:20 pm

Ultimate is a realitive term. If you truley wanted the ultimate system you could easily spend $10,000. What your true objective should be is a cost effective computer that fits your all around needs.

Alienware is not quite as watered down as the major PC vendors. They do offer some 'unique' cases and are also working on a dual-video card tech. However nVidia has already demo'd this tech, so maybe they're just piggy backing off of nVidia's tech. They claimed it worked with any two video cards and not just nVidia cards. So, they may very well be working on their own solution.

Dual CPUs, while nice, are still on the costly/complex side.

I would get an AMD CPU 2.0Ghz+, 512MB+ DDR ram, western digital or seagate hard disks(I've had bad times with Maxtor). Those are the basic components. If you want gaming then get a last gen video card(Radeon 9800).

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Postby post-it » Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:00 pm

klinky wrote:... western digital or seagate hard disks(I've had bad times with Maxtor)...
good point!
although I've had very good luck with Maxtor Hard-Drives, there is one issue
that has not been advertised lately about hard-drives;
Serial -or- Parallel DMA designs.

get Parallel Hard-Drives and Scuzy if it is in your price range - serial sucks.

I was using a Parallel DMA-100 hard drive and bought a new Serial DMA-166
hard drive; what a nightmare!
( everything moved at ¼ the speed it used to, so I returned it! )

Make sure that your motherboard can support both serial and parallel hard drives.
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Postby Kalium » Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:48 pm

RAM is important. Lots of RAM. But remember, all RAM is not created equal: Kingston, Micron, and Corsair are among the better sources for RAM.

For Micron, buy from Crucial: it's hard to beat their prices.
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Postby Scintilla » Sun Dec 12, 2004 11:24 pm

post-it wrote:
klinky wrote:... western digital or seagate hard disks(I've had bad times with Maxtor)...
good point!
although I've had very good luck with Maxtor Hard-Drives, there is one issue
that has not been advertised lately about hard-drives;
Serial -or- Parallel DMA designs.

get Parallel Hard-Drives and Scuzy if it is in your price range - serial sucks.

Funny you should say that, because I'm currently running a Seagate 160GB SATA Barracuda off a Link Depot PCI SATA/RAID controller card, and it's <i>still</i> performing faster than my two internal IDE drives on the primary controller.
As a result, I can now rip DVDs at upwards of 10x (used to be I could only get about 6x max). :D
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Postby the Black Monarch » Sun Dec 26, 2004 11:06 am

My Maxtors are all working fine; it's my WD Raptors that won't play nice.

It's a conspiracy.
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