I’m looking at purchasing a new desktop but I’ve been out of the market for sometime.

What are some good CPU and motherboard combos? Also, what is the best bang for my buck video card? I’m not against putting some serious dollars in my video department, I just don’t want to if I don’t have to.

I’m looking to play games and develop on, so I’d also like to run two monitors as easily as possible.

Any starting points?

brocky just died and all you can think about is getting new damn computer? I H8 U

^- I'm with the StreX.

f*** brocky, f*** him and his stupid sport.

you suck

get a Intel 6600 2.4ghz, 2Gb DDR2 ram ( either 800mhz, or low latency 667mhz ), Asus P5B, Nvidia 7900GT ( either fast 256mb, or std 512mb, both around same price ). Get a good case, then throw away the psu and get a decent PSU. a 72Gb SATA 10k, and a 300+Gb 7.2k SATA. Plus the usual extras.

awesome stinky, I'll cyber you sometime.

by god please no one help him ... with two monitors the spam will never end heh


but yeah stinky's suggestion is prettty much as good as you can get

by god please no one help him ... with two monitors the spam will never end heh

Heh, with two monitors I'd probably be spending all of my time playing supreme commander or coding :P

I'm basically gonna get what stinky suggested there; wanted to order it today but ran out of time and prolly won't be able to do it until Monday now :(

Apparently ram prices just went up, so you'll be paying an extra hundred bucks for the fast 800mhz stuff, some benchmarks show the low-latency 667mhz ram doing pretty damn close so is a viable alternative to save a cpl dollars.

24 inch imac ;)

2.16 intel dualcore2
1 gig ram
24 inch apple jizz
7600GT
500GB drive

3000$

just a shame the mac pro's are so $$$

Iv had a quick play with Vista on the machine stinky mentioned, and it runs awesome on a standard install. Will do some further testing this week to see how it compares to XP's benchmarks.

in todays pricing, how much would stinky's PC cost?

below 3k?

pretty much on the 3k mark give or take depending where you shop.

I agree with simul.
FOr $3k the danm thing is a beast.

24 inch imac ;)

Pity I want to play more than WoW :(

--

Thanks for the advice :)