Hi PTabolinsky

I game quite a lot online ( usually Unreal Tournament 2003 ) and this is my spec, whilst not cutting edge anymore it's more than adequate for my uses. It even crunches work units reasonably quickly. I'd agree with Ozzy that 2 gig of ram is pretty good unless you have a specific app that needs more in the region of 4 gig. I'd spend the rest of my dosh on better graphics card or processor cooling. The gaming p.c's sold here in the UK usually compromise on something and if you are careful and ask on some of the forums that specialise in high end p.c's you can usually cost for cost you can build slightly better yourself. A good idea would be to drop in to the extreme systems team thread and post a hello how are you and do you mind helping me with some advice please, sort of question as those guys have some really extreme and fast pc's.

Here's my spec by the way

Operating System : Simply Mepis 6.0-1 ( Linux )
Processor : Intel P4 D630 EM64T HT 3.0 Ghz
Mobo : ECS 865PE-A7
Memory : 2 Gig DDR400
Graphics : Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 using nvidia-glx
Monitor : Emprex LM1904 19" widescreen LCD monitor
Sound : Onboard 6 channel ICH15 ( Duplex )
Cooling : Akasa AK-920 Evo 120 Cooler Fan ( Gas Evaporation )
Drives : /dev/hda Maxtor 6E030L0 30 Gig
: /dev/hdb Seagate ST313032A 13 Gig
CD Writer : /dev/hdc Samsung CD-R/RW SW-W162C
DVD Writer : /dev/hdd TssT Corp CD/DVDW SH-W162C
Mouse : M$ Intellieye 3 Button Wheel Mouse ( Optical USB )
Keyboard :M$ 105 Key Soft keyboard PS/2 English-uk layout

Cheers
Jacko

Hi again PaulT

Just a little extra note here.

As stated before, I go quality before quantity with everything. Any computer you build or buy will be redundant in an alarmingly short time. Quality can be pushed beyond normal life expectancy as required. i.e. 4 DIMM slots with 2 1 GIG sticks of ram allows another 2 sticks to be added later if needed.
I always remember buying a Cyrix(yes that's IBM) 6x86 PR 200+ with 32Meg of ram and having all my chat buddies completely puzzled as to how I was going to use all that power. {edit} This machine was essentially redundant within 6 weeks with the introduction of MMX and was nearly unusable thanks to software that wouldn't install because it insisted that I have a Pentium processor, even though it would run rings around the Pentiums of the time.{end edit}

That's life with computers

Cheers. ozylynx

See for some posts here by David Autumns and the newest of newest AMD low energy CPU. It's worth considering with electricity cost on the rampant.

Yep Sarge. I did mean obsolete.

Not to worry, I think the message was there somewhere.

Cheers. ozylynx