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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shard O'Glase" data-source="post: 1892781" data-attributes="member: 1134">gah I feel like my dad.  At least I understand conceptually what you all are talking about but all these video card numbers and what's best, and things like pci-express is confusing to me.  The computer I use is from the dark ages back when I first went onto graduate school at the time it had the best graphic card I could get through dell a whole 8mb, I've been relegated to console gaming for way too long.(side note from experience never let your roomate use your computer on the internet unless you really know him, its been about 5 years and my computer still feels dirty)So basically to sum up as long as its a pentirum 4 level its good in that area.Ram I should get bare min of 512 but shoot for 1 meg.Hard drive? :is 40 gig good enough to me it sounds huge but everything takes up more space now so I don't know.  Hard drives are cheap so maybe I should go for more.Graphics card: is this good enough ATI "All in Wonder" 128MB DDR Video Card with with RADEON 9600 XT 3D Chip, do I go for um this  ATI X700 Pro 256MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Video Card or Leadtek FX 6800GT 256MB Video Card with nVidia's GeForce 6800 GT Chip. All 3 of which seem to cost 200$ on outpost.com Basically I was thinking I'd need the 256MB level because I remember how quickly my 8mb became worthless.  And also what more do I have to look at than its MB processing power.  Is there really a substantial difference between ATI stuff and GeForce based stuff.  Will only one type work on certain configurations?And why does this  ATI 256MB DDR Video Card with with RADEON X800 PRO 3D Chip cost 200$ more what does the RADEON x800 pro 3d add over the other 256mb chip from ATI, and make the 128 MB one cost the same as the non radeon 256MB to make it 200$ more expensive and how important is that?Monitors:I got one already it works fine sure I'd like a sleek and space friendly flat screen but I'm not made of money, so I'll probably remove the monitor from the purcahse.Sound: I'd like decent sound but this isn't a big point to me any suggestions.</blockquote>

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