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<blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 451418" data-attributes="member: 360">The thing is that the system you set up was a long way from cost-effective. You could buy what I set up, which is way more than enough for any games that are out today (which have to run on P3/GeForce 2 systems and run well on sub-2GHz P4s), then in two years spend what you saved on a new box that would be far better than the system you outlined. So if you're wasting money anyway, you might as well go all out. If not, scale back to something more reasonable.What I have right now -- a P-3 800 where only the memory and video card are less than two years old (I've upgraded to 512MB of RAM and a GeForce 4 Ti4200) -- can still almost play all the latest games, as long as you're not trying to beat obsessed fanboys with tons of disposable income in FPS games.&nbsp;The combo of a fast P4 or Athlon XP, 512 MB of DDR 333 memory (don't bother with RAMBUS unless you've got money to burn), and a GeForce 4 Ti or Radeon 8500 (or better) will be a good box for quite a while. Generally speaking, the price premium for the absolute best isn't worth it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drothgery, post: 451418, member: 360"] The thing is that the system you set up was a long way from cost-effective. You could buy what I set up, which is way more than enough for any games that are out today (which have to run on P3/GeForce 2 systems and run well on sub-2GHz P4s), then in two years spend what you saved on a new box that would be far better than the system you outlined. So if you're wasting money anyway, you might as well go all out. If not, scale back to something more reasonable. What I have right now -- a P-3 800 where only the memory and video card are less than two years old (I've upgraded to 512MB of RAM and a GeForce 4 Ti4200) -- can still [i]almost[/i] play all the latest games, as long as you're not trying to beat obsessed fanboys with tons of disposable income in FPS games. The combo of a fast P4 or Athlon XP, 512 MB of DDR 333 memory (don't bother with RAMBUS unless you've got money to burn), and a GeForce 4 Ti or Radeon 8500 (or better) will be a good box for quite a while. Generally speaking, the price premium for the absolute best isn't worth it. [/QUOTE]

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