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Originally posted by galleryseek
for the programs i want to use, its a necessity that i have 3ghz, 1 gigaram, radeon 9800, good sound card, etc etc.
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honestly, you really don't need that for designing, and you definitely don't for games. a friend of mine is a 3d designer and he uses like a 2.2ghz dell laptop for all his work, including really high-end 3d rendering.
my 2400 w/ 512mb ram and radeon 9700/128mb plays the newest games without a hitch. ut2k3 turned all the way up doesn't slow it down a second, and with the 8mb cache drives, levels load just like the original ut did on my old box.
i paid about 750$ for that, minus the monitor and soundcard and stuff. and you can get a pretty nice live card (or audigy) for like $100. i also bought a lian-li with that money. granted, i have an expensive monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, and soundcard, but i doubt you need 450w klipsch speakers to make a nice website. i rarely use my plat sb, except for the headphone jack, and a dvd burner would be nice, but not necessary. i also have over 300gb of hdd space in this box, and most of that came with the price i paid.
i can run and use flash mx, fireworks, photoshop, golive, gaim, winamp, outlook and more on my box, using them all at once, and it doesn't hiccup at all. i also have a killer freaking mb that is about twice the price what you'd need.
get yourself a biostar, 1gb ram, 64mb+ vid, athlon 2400 and you're set. it'll play all your games, too.