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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psionicist" data-source="post: 451893" data-attributes="member: 1874">That is one of the most ignorant and false statements in this whole thread. If you encode lots of music, do heavy graphics/modelling and video editing, you will surely benefit from more than those 512mb RAM, and these are far from "server" tasks.And now for something completely different (... or not really):VideocardAs zorlag said, sort off. The FSAA performance of nvidia's cards basically, sucks. At least compared to Radeon 9700. The performance of a Ti4600 WITH 4xFSAA is 70% slower than without any FSAA. Compare this with 40% slower fro the Radeon 9700.However, also not that those cheap ass Ti4200 ($150 or so) can overclock to at least Ti4400 speeds (not to hard to push it past the Ti4600 cards). That's $150 for good performance. The Radeon 9700 is $350 or so?Anyhow, if you want the best, get the Radeon 9700 Pro, not something offbrand like powercolor, go Hercules or Ati (but those Ati-engineered cards are f**king expansive).We all know that RAMBUS stinks as a company, but the memory technology is still way better than one channel DDR, particularly for the quad pumped P4 platforum. You see, with DDR, the memory bus will get out of sync from the CPU bus. This is not the case with RDRAM. DDR, the first D is for dual. Lets say the FSB is 133 and you use a memory timing of 1:1, that's a memory clock of 266 MHz. The CPU bus is quadpumped, or 133*4, or 533 MHz. That is not so good.However, with some nice quadpumped PC1066 RDRAM at x4 (133 fsb), the memory frequency is 533, the same as the CPU.P4 with RDRAM is much "snappier" and feels more responsive and faster than a P4 with DDR.I hardly belive we will se Serial ATA here in "the west" this year. Sure, Maxtor have created some disks and a whole lot of mobo companies put SATA support on their newer releases, but the technology is still in a very early state and I doubt there will be any noticable performance increase in "todays" SATA disks. However, I do belive the technology has some potential, but... not this year.If you want a decent storage subsystem, get SCSI. You can get a really nice 36GB Cheetah (U160 interface, 15000 RPM - Yes, I am aware of U320, NO, don't bother with your 32bit PCI slots) and a controller card (LSI or Mylex perhaps? A big no for overpriced adaptec crap) for $300-$400.And then get something large for datastorage. Put the apps and OS on SCSI and everyhing else on one of those 120GB (or so) IDE disks.</blockquote>

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