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I'm building myself a new PC. It'll be used for heavy multimedia and heavy gamingg. (not extreme gaming though). Here are the specs:
16x DVD+\-RW
XION case (very nice)
ECS RD480-A939 motherboard
3D fuzion Geforce 7600GS 256MB GDDR2
Rosewill 480-watt PSU
A-data 1GB DDR400 dualchannel RAM
AMD Athlon 64 3200
total: $452.31
What do you think?define heavy gaming but not extreamPlaying the latest games, but not the latest and greatest hardware. Decent gaming machine.Your not going to be able to do much current gaming with that.. but if ur budget is 500$, i guess thats the best u can do. Remmember to always spend as much as u can on the graphics card.I always thought that the graphics card and CPU were "important" because of hype: intel and ATI. I could play all my games without any bottleneck on the GPUs end with my current hardware (before my RAM WENT berzerk). I thought that having such an advanced graphics card would MAKE my PC able to play all the latest and greatest games. Until a few years ago, a mach64 was plenty options for me.Quote

I always thought that the graphics card and CPU were "important" because of hype: intel and ATI. I could play all my games without any bottleneck on the GPUs end with my current hardware (before my RAM went berzerk). I thought that having such an advanced graphics card would make my PC able to play all the latest and greatest games. Until a few years ago, a mach64 was plenty options for me.

Even a 500$ low-end PC would be a lot better than ur current PIII PC, but if ur happy with that and are able to play the games that u like on that PC, then why upgrade?
If u WANT to upgrade, take my graphics card advice and buy whatever CPU u want. You WILL be able to play current games on even a 7600 GS, but not at high settings. If the PC is "low-end" u will only be able to play current games on low-end graphics settings.

If u have a 32MB Riva, it dosent matter what graphics card u buy, because ull see a huge difference in graphics, such as uve never thought possible.No. I have 2x20GB EIDEs. 40GB total.Count on one drive for the operating system, and the other for 1 or 2 games and an application or two. That's about all you will have room for. As they are 20 gig drives, they are PROBABLY older and slower than what would be appropriate for a powerful new system. I would recommend a newer, faster and bigger hard drive.I can't afford both the 7600GS and the 160GB hard drive. I'll add on the hard drive later.


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