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<blockquote data-quote="Psionicist" data-source="post: 453271" data-attributes="member: 1874">I myself will soon order some components for my new box:Motherboard: MSI K7D Master-L. Why? 2cpu.com and generally everyone who have tested at least some dual athlon boards agree that this board... rules. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />CPUs: 2x Athlon XP 2100+. Why? They are almost as cheap as the 2000+, however, the 2200+ is pretty expensive. This is the sweet spot, like 14 in an ability with point buy.RAM: 512mb Kingston DDR (Reg/Ecc). Why? Less problems with registered RAM on multiprocessor setups. I am used to 256mb so this will be enought - for now.Then we have case and power supply (antec performance series with a nice 430W true power PSU). Sound card (hercules fortissimo III). Video card (Ti4200 is enough for my needs, I don't game that much, and when I do it's generally older or &quot;slow&quot; games such as NWN, BG, War3 and so on).So, why dual athlons? I multitask - alot. That, and I want a responsive system. I don't really care if I don't get the fastest possible gaming system around (say P4 2.8Ghz with a Radeon 9700), but I want a snappy system that can handle heavy load without &quot;lag&quot;. Try to run an antivirus scan while you play and older game. It doesn't work that good right? It will soon though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Also, when I sell my current computer, I will most likely buy a decent 64bit/66mhz SCSI card and a cheaper 10k disk (no, I'm not made of money).I am one happy geek. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psionicist, post: 453271, member: 1874"] I myself will soon order some components for my new box: Motherboard: MSI K7D Master-L. Why? 2cpu.com and generally everyone who have tested at least some dual athlon boards agree that this board... rules. :) CPUs: 2x Athlon XP 2100+. Why? They are almost as cheap as the 2000+, however, the 2200+ is pretty expensive. This is the sweet spot, like 14 in an ability with point buy. RAM: 512mb Kingston DDR (Reg/Ecc). Why? Less problems with registered RAM on multiprocessor setups. I am used to 256mb so this will be enought - for now. Then we have case and power supply (antec performance series with a nice 430W true power PSU). Sound card (hercules fortissimo III). Video card (Ti4200 is enough for my needs, I don't game that much, and when I do it's generally older or "slow" games such as NWN, BG, War3 and so on). So, why dual athlons? I multitask - alot. That, and I want a responsive system. I don't really care if I don't get the fastest possible gaming system around (say P4 2.8Ghz with a Radeon 9700), but I want a snappy system that can handle heavy load without "lag". Try to run an antivirus scan while you play and older game. It doesn't work that good right? It will soon though. :) Also, when I sell my current computer, I will most likely buy a decent 64bit/66mhz SCSI card and a cheaper 10k disk (no, I'm not made of money). I am one happy geek. :) [/QUOTE]

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