If you're buying that LCD, go for the newer 7500 nVidia series of video cards.

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Originally posted by zokissima If you're buying that LCD, go for the newer 7500 nVidia series of video cards.

Why? They're so damn expensive

at school we got a shitload of dell lcd's. not quite as big (only 21). but still fucking awesome. on like every bloody machine there. w00t.

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Ha! Just when i was about to buy the monitor on eBay, someone told me that Dell is having one of their hot deals and offering $450USD off a high-end PC with that same monitor. So i ended up being a DELL whore after all Shipping to a friend in the USA, then she'll send it to me.

Processor Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)
Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs 1GB
Keyboard Dell Wireless Keyboard and Optical Mouse
Monitors 24 inch UltraSharp™ 2405FPW Widescreen Digital Flat Panel 2405WFP
Video Cards 256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800 NV6800
Hard Drives 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ 160S
CD or DVD Drive Single Drive: 16x DVD+/-RW
Sound Sound Blaster® Audigy®2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1

$1559USD + ship

Why Intel? AMD's offerings seem to outperform all the equivalent Intel stuff in nearly everything, and for a bit less money with absolutely no loss in quality or reliability.

Because i saved $700 by taking Dell's deal as opposed to buinding the exact same system (but with XP 3200) myself.

Mother of god you actually ordered a Dell computer??!

I'm so, so sorry.

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 Why Intel? AMD's offerings seem to outperform all the equivalent Intel stuff in nearly everything, and for a bit less money with absolutely no loss in quality or reliability.

I've been an AMD whore for years...my last 4 systems have been AMD chip based.

I haven't kept up on the tech though...any words on their laptop chips? I'm thinking laptop instead of new desktop, for a couple of reasons...I know Acer is putting AMD chips in their notebooks, but are any others?

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 I built his same shit almost exactly, back in 2004, except I had an old Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB kickin' around that I still use :cry:. Athlon64 3200+ Asus K8V SE Deluxe mobo some old case I had 1GB Samsung PC3200 DDR RAM 120GB Seagate SATA-150 harddrive some old Pioneer slot-loading DVD drive I had (moved CD burner to other comp, cause iPods don't need CDs).

Wow... I also bought mine back in September 2004... almost this EXACT same system (except with a Radeon 9800). But mine cost me around $600 thanks to a SWEET Future Shop promo with AMD!

God bless my gf's staff discounts

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Originally posted by d!abolic Here are the components i picked. Gonna buy em and put everything together later this week: Athlon 64 3200+ Gigabyte K8NE Motherboard Silverstone Black HTPC Case GeForce 6800GS 1GB 400MHz PC3200 160GB Maxtor ATA133 Lite-ON DVD+RW Everything, including tax, is around $1200 after tax. The monitor is gonna end up costing around that much as well.

Aside from looks, the Silverstone Case would be kinda limiting. What's the cost on the 6800GS? If you were building it with the intent to play games, seems kinda a shame not to do the SLI thing. Just my 2 cents. Although I guess it doesn't really matter since he bought the Dell.

One thing that does piss me of about LCD monitors is the apparent lack of options for high end, high resolution monitors. I did find a 9 megapixel 30 inch LCD, don't even ask the price. Aside from that there's a few out there that will do 2560x1536 or something like that but the price is pretty astronomical. Still haven't gotten rid of my 19" CRTS which I do the whole dual monitor setup with and get an overall 3200x1200 resolution with for what cost me then about 700 bucks. It really irks me that laptops that measure 15" and 17" can have highly dense pixel counts, but no one is offering that for the people that prefer to run at higher resolutions on a desktop model. Ah, enough venting...

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 Mother of god you actually ordered a Dell computer??! I'm so, so sorry.

my baby <3

Interesting...

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