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**Lax** · 09-03-2005, 06:48 AM

Intel will be more geard towards multitasking while AMD's will be more geared towards gaming. You need to decide what you want to do more, multitask, or game. Both will run whatever you want fine however, but if you get into the major stuff it is then that you see the difference. As for video I'd generally say go with a 6800NU or a 6800GT if you got the money. Motherboard will vary depending on whether or not you want SLI or not and whether or not you want a passive or active northbridge cooler. Gigabyte makes some nice mobo's with passive northbridge coolers and are generally the same as the MSI counterpart. As for RAM you MAY need 2Gb eventually, but it would be fine if you started with just 1Gb to hold back on costs. Something that runs decent timings that also corresponds with the CPU so there is no bottle necking involved. Kingston, Corsair, GEIL, Micron, Crucial, and Samsung are all very nice companies and make valueram as well as high preformance ram. A HDD is a HDD, it doesn't really matter what company you buy (so long as you're not getting into the major drives such as the 10k and 15k SCSI and SATA drives). 200Gb will usually cost you about 100-120$. Sound system is up to you, you can buy almost any 5.1 speaker system and it will work out ok for you.

09-03-2005, 06:48 AM	#10 (permalink)
Lax Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Snow country Age: 22 Posts: 2,301	Intel will be more geard towards multitasking while AMD's will be more geared towards gaming. You need to decide what you want to do more, multitask, or game. Both will run whatever you want fine however, but if you get into the major stuff it is then that you see the difference. As for video I'd generally say go with a 6800NU or a 6800GT if you got the money. Motherboard will vary depending on whether or not you want SLI or not and whether or not you want a passive or active northbridge cooler. Gigabyte makes some nice mobo's with passive northbridge coolers and are generally the same as the MSI counterpart. As for RAM you MAY need 2Gb eventually, but it would be fine if you started with just 1Gb to hold back on costs. Something that runs decent timings that also corresponds with the CPU so there is no bottle necking involved. Kingston, Corsair, GEIL, Micron, Crucial, and Samsung are all very nice companies and make valueram as well as high preformance ram. A HDD is a HDD, it doesn't really matter what company you buy (so long as you're not getting into the major drives such as the 10k and 15k SCSI and SATA drives). 200Gb will usually cost you about 100-120$. Sound system is up to you, you can buy almost any 5.1 speaker system and it will work out ok for you. __________________ He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.