comp parts

[hiroshi]

Oh as far as crappy comps. My old one is:

Pentium 133mhz
16mb of EDO RAM.
ISA to PCI Expander (3 unusually large PCI Slots)
Internal Graphics Card (2mb)
AST SVGA Monitor (Can only display 800*600 and even then it's off the screen a little)
PCI SoundBlaster 16 (Yes the old one. NOT Pro, and won't fit modern PCI)
ISA MicroModem.
IBM Desktop Case (Horizontal)
MSI Motherboard.... can't remember the number though. Damn old.

Do i win? =P

[DDBen]

29.5 inch LCD

Well thats the only refernce to a LCD in your price catagory I can find

and as with all of them the refresh rates are well below what they should be a LCD tops off at about 76 MHZ while atleast my graphic card atleast on high end 1600X1200 still runs at at much higher then 60 HZ.

Resolutions Supported
640x480 @ 60Hz
800x600 @ 60Hz
1024x768 @ 60Hz
1280x768 @ 60Hz
1280x1024 @ 60Hz (Analog only, compressed)
1600x1200 @ 60Hz (Analog only, compressed)
NTSC/PAL; HDTV 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i

Basically my statement about a LCD lies in the fact that you are paying way to much for a monitor that can't even correctly handle the best video cards out there.

Now to compair to a 19 inch CRT
19 inch CRT

Now lets look at the supported resolution
Resolutions Supported
720 x 400 @ 70 to 160 Hz
640 x 480 @ 60 to 160 Hz
800 x 600 @ 50 to 146 Hz
832 x 624 @ 50 to 141 Hz
1024 x 768 @ 50 to 116 Hz
1152 x 870 @ 50 to 103 Hz
1280 x 1024 @ 50 to 89 Hz
1600 x 1200 @ 50 to 76 Hz
1792 x 1344 @ 50 to 68 Hz
NOTE: Some systems may not support all modes listed.

I'd certainly say those refresh rates are a bit better on the high end but then again they give a range where the CRT does not but even taking the average in EVERY case the CRT has much higher resolutions available.

Now yes a LCD has a picture that looks cleaner there is no argument there I'm just saying based on what your getting for your money note the 19" LCD has lower stats and costs at most $650 and atleast $489. So in general you are paying more for a monitor that can't keep up. This is my opinion these are direct links to the products where I would purchase such a monitor from. If you have some super monitor from another site please feel free to post it as for me I'll take the 19" CRT and use my nvidia Geforce fx 5950 Ultra with VIVO to its full extent without having to watch my games flicker.

[boomorman]

go to pricewatch.com after you find a place you might want to buy from go to
resellerratings.com Look up the rating I'd say a score of 5 or more your good to go.

190 for cheapo but good enough mobo + 2.6ghz cpu 533fsb/ stock fan/hs onboard sound/ nic (with the 533 you'll have the extra fsb to play around with if your into ocing)

56$ for 2mb 80gb hd 79$ for an 8mb cache

however the wd 1600bb (105 bucks) will perform about as well as the 800jb (79)
and you get twice the hardrive space out of it. smaller sectors faster read makes up for the extra buffer.


80 for semi good stick of 512 ram (ram matters more then just about anything else)

5 bucks thermal paste.

100 for gf4 4200 which 99 percent of can be clocked to 4600 speed with stock cooling.

lcd for a semi good one looking at 300-550 really they aren't worth it. They suck for gaming better off spending 200 and getting a rocking crt monitor or reusing your current one.

reuse your current case, floppy, cdrom, keyboard, mouse, you might be able to reuse your psu but more then likly not so like 60 bucks for a semi good one.



my computer I havn't upgraded in over a year. It's still more than fast enough.

19in magview monitor kinda crappy but it does 100hertz at 1024 768 which is what I game at so good enough.

motherboard is an ad77

xp2100 t-bred fsb set at 190 @2471ghz cheapo water cooling 67 dollars on pricewatch and I put a 7200 fan on top the heatsink so its air/water.


512ocz pc3500 running at cas2

geforce 4 4200 core at 280 mem at 610.

800jb 1200jb 400bb I like western digital havn't had one fail yet.

liteon 44x cdr ( no need for faster 3-4 minutes a cd is quick enough)