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escriure: If you paid for an IBM-branded PC no later than 1980, you should be about the only person in...
I would first check on Toms Hardware; there is a recipy for a USD 500 Gamers PC for inspiration. Everything PeeCee related changes every week anyway, so my accumulated wisdom is obsolete anyway ;-)
Here goes:
Get a PCI-Express Motherboard (MB). One can run several Graphics Cards in parallel on those IF the MB supports it.
Athlon 64 3200 is nice too, a lot of performance for the money and it has some sort of idle mode that cuts power consumption down. At least 1 GB of RAM is needed, More than 120 GB disk too, Internet. Windows 64 SUCK and cannot even run itself properly, let alone a game, so just plain XP for now.
Religion! The Market is basically ATI Radeon and Nvidia Gforce leapfrogging each other. At present Nvidia is at the top. ATI will come up with something. So whatever goes in the box is what happens to match the money you have now ;-)
Geforce 6600 with 256 MB DDR RAM is IMO ok for games now at USD 99, but ... If those GF 6600 can be paralleled they might be a better bet than a single high-end card.
No, it's like it always is:
It isn't just the motherboard. Out of the box motherboards that use the same chip sets, unless pushed, tend to perform similarly although differences in price can, but not...
There is a relation up to where the rationality of getting the "better" item disappears and it just become a fashion accessory because the underlying games engine (and the monitor) no longer support any better resolution-quality. There is also not much point in framerates many times above what one can visually see.
I think the departure-from-sanity-point right now is about USD 200-250 for the GPU.
Toms Hardware has analysis: www.tomshardware.com
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