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Originally posted by DavePlays
If you were buying/building a new PC, what brand/model of these parts would you get?
Motherboard
Processor, Brand (doesn't have to be the latest or the fastest)
Hard drive (100-120 gig range)
Video Card (for Internet use, no games)
Monitor (LCD - 18-19 inch.)
thanks,
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I'm not a very good source for this sort of information. I don't really keep on top of the newest technology.
However. I will say say buy intel. All the problems I've ever had with over heating and or fried processors has always been with AMD.
All the problems I've ever had with video cards has been with ATI. They're fast, but their drivers suck ass.
If this is going to be your work PC, take some basic precautions to be redundant. Hard drives are cheap now, and so are PCI raid cards. You can buy an Adaptec card, and two 200 gig drives for less than $500US. This will give you a mirror of your hard drive. VERY handy if you have a failure.
I can tell you what I use for my work machine:
2 X 2.8ghz Intel P4 2way Xeon processors
2 Gigs ram. Xeons need a specific type of RAM.
21" MultiSync FP2141 monitor
4 x 120gig Maxtor drives. 7200 RPM ATA133.
Adaptec ATA 1200 Raid controller
Drives configured as two seperate mirror sets. Giving me 120 gig system partition and a 120 gig data parition. Redudant
ATi Radeon9700 All in wonder. It sucks ass, but I like watching TV. SOmetimes it's good for games, mostly it crashes
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http://www.tomshardware.com/