OK...Roger wants a new computer. He's built his last couple on his own. Here's the plan so far.
new case with built in 400W power supply
motherboard
Intel P4 3.2Ghz processor
Maxtor 250gb SATA hard drive
NEC dvd/cd burner
We'll snatch the audio card out of his current computer, and likely buy an aftermarket heatsink & fan for the processor.
Our questions concern mostly RAM and video cards.
The video card budget is around $200. From what I've found this
Radeon X800GTO seems to be the best bang for our buck. Does anyone here suggest something else for that price range?
Secondly is RAM. DDR400 (PC3200) seems to be the most popular RAM. Roger will be using this computer for about 99.9% gaming. (World of Warcraft being the #1 played game) What's the best/fastest RAM he can get (stability being a prime concern)? We've always only bought Kingston RAM in the past, but I see Corsair and OCZ being tossed around a lot on the "gaming" sites. He just wants to plug and play...not much of a tweaker. Budget for 1GB of RAM...$100 +/-. Can I get better than two of
these?
