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Yea, build it yourself. You have a computer right now, open it up and see what's inside. I know its scary at first, but so is working on your car. XPS=Alienware > Gateway I'm not a big fan of gateway. And they do get the parts wholesale, but they are cheap parts. CPU- Intel E8000 line of CPU's If you want reviews look here http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/ Mobo- ASUS or ABIT mobo Nvidia 780i or Intel X48 chipset. Just make sure it is compatible with the CPU you choose RAM- Corsair, I've stuck with them for years and their XMS series is great. The problem lately is deciding between DDR3 and DDR2. DDR3 officially supports the FSB that will match your processor, but some DDR2 modules unofficially match it and preform better than DDR3. http://www.anandtech.com/memory/ Hard drive- Seagate/Maxtor or Western Digital. Get the size that you will use most people (not me) don't really need more than 250GB, me I have over 2TB at 50% usage. Make sure that you get a 7200 RPM with a 16MB Cache, don't get the WD green power for your main hard drive. What I recommend doing is formatting 100GB for your OS and applications, and then the rest for your music and what not. That way if you have to format you don't loose your precious music/itunes crap. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/ Raid- As a noob you will not see any performance increase and it will just confuse you even more. Video Cards- Nvidia 9600. its a sub $200 card and nvidia is much friendlier with their drivers. I highly doubt you will take advantage of Crossfire/SLI. http://www.anandtech.com/video/ http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3235&p=4 Audio- Stick with onboard Case- get what ever looks good to you. If a case comes with a PSU, don't keep it. PSU- You can not skimp out on your PSU, if you do it will kill the rest of your computer. Seasonic/Corsair S12/HX series you won't need more than 550 watts at the most. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article699-page1.html http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/ http://www.newegg.com/ get crackin! oh and I would save up the $ first before starting to but ****. Also if you wait a bit Anandtech should be posting a high end buyers guide soon. http://www.anandtech.com/guides/ you can just go off of that.

And they wounder why people pirate.

What ever happened to rechargeable mice...

PSU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817139004 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817151040 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817151034 Seasonic makes some awesome PSU's and Corsair is a rebandaged Seasonic. They are efficient and reliable. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article699-page1.html As for the video card, 9600 FTW http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3235 http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3234

Oh yes, The Troopers I remember that, I actually designed the site a few times. Thats how I learned all I know about computers. I was in 9th grade then so long ago. Bye dinner needs flipping!

Go Bears!

I'm not going to see my family until after New Years, and thats only for 2.5 days.

Thats why I disable my autorun.

I know its been beaten down, but I don't feel like quoting individual lines. Dual Monitors, Try Tripple or Quad as I did have at one point with XP back in 04/05 Games- Vista does good for Direct3D but sucks at OpenGL http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.a...i=2917&p=18 The rest is just poorly written and not worth my time.

When I was in elementary school there was a bus that was hit by a train, my car got towed to the same yard that it was held at probably 10 years later. It was creepy looking at that thing knowing 6 high schoolers died in it.

My laptop came with vista, it now has XP and Ubuntu. I found vista to be more of an attempt at eye candy. As for 64bit, a 64bit OS isn't totally worth it yet. Even with linux-amd64 packages there are still problems (Adobe Flash), but there are more work arounds in linux than Windawz.

I wish my CnC 3 would play online.

When i go to play online the game crashes, be happy you can play online.

When ever I close Itunes my CPU usage jumps up to 75%, and it doesn't manage the library nearly as well as winamp. I used to have songs that have no file attached to them, even though right under it was the song pointing to the same file. If you change the file names it can get messy. I have a program called "iTunes Library Updater" thats free and solves this. Oh and the reason I have iTunes, I have a 80 gig Ipod that I bought because my car has a direct link to the ipod where i can control it from my head unit.

Simpsons - "I developed a program to download porn 100x faster"

Vista has all kinds of issues running programs, that aren't "vista ready" I had it on my laptop and ditched it for a XP/Ubuntu dual boot.

ctrl alt backspace is the shiznaz! so much better that holding down the power button or hitting reset.

@TheSoVietBlackOuT Yea... I like to rip my DVDs. Oh and the actual size of my HDDs is 2142.5GB, thats the software size of it. And thats not including my external hard drives that I use with my laptop. 7800GS is the best card that i can get with AGP, I'm not investing in a new main computer until 09/10 (35nm cpus). I am going to be building a HTPC in the coming year, RAID 5 & Linux MCE hooked up to a 46in LCD TV. @Zee Hypnotist Its kind of a server/HTPC/Gaming/Main computer all rolled into one.

I am seriously surprised that there are no porn sites at all on there. I thought thats why the internet was born.

Winamp is the best media player I have found for music. For videos I use VLC/Media Player Classic, their a lot less bloated than WMP.

I havent played CS in ages.

Heres your mistake VISTA, go get XP. Side note I use a less than legal version of XP because my legal version makes me call MS every time I reformat.

Ubuntu is fun, I got Beryl working on it. My laptop came with Vista, it now has XP Pro and Ubuntu and I use ubuntu most of the time.

heh, 3Ghz P4E, 2 gigs ram, 7800GS, 2TB of storage I play everything at max at 1280x1024

oh i post on the forums there, when i had the other problem i was posting it there all the time.