I agree. I'm upgrading everything else before I spend the money on the computer though.

 

your rig is only as good as its weakest link.

 

I figured. I've squeezed a solid 3 years out of this puppy...not bad I guess.

I'm going to wait until I get the actual dual monitor setup and upgrade the rest of the rig then, for now it works.

As for everyone suggesting needing a better card for dual monitors and gaming, I actually only play the occasional WoW and other out-dated games like DoTa. I want the 2 monitors so I can run something low graphics intensive like a browser on the second monitor, and only game on one. I think my card should be able to handle that.

 

DELL and HP have the best LCD flat screen monitors out there. I would go with dell. HPs gloss screen monitors look fantastic but they have real thick frames and wouldnt work well with dual setup. Tiger direct had the 22" HP for $250 last week.

 

if you dont mind the price you can get an awesome monitor here

http://www.iz3d.com/

 

To be honest I haven't researched in a while, but last time I did I found the biggest issue with Dell is that they use a lottery system for their monitors. You truly never know what you're going to get, or not. It's too risky IMO. Other manufacturers are guilty as well, so I am going to do some solid research and make sure the model I get truly is what it is advertised as.

I'll look into the HP though...

 

Even today's cheap LCD's are much better gamers than the top line ones not that long ago. You don't need an advertised 2ms.

 

I've heard the Samsung along with the HPs are great screens. Dell I haven't heard so much, from the problems I've had with the computers at my office, I wouldn't buy another Dell product.

 

Dell's ultrasharp LCDs cant be matched IMO. Their screens are perfect. Not too thick of a frame. Easy to navigate menus and buttons on the monitor. Sleek looking stand with multiple axis to move. The monitor will turn on its side so you can access all the different types of ports such as AV, USB, S-VIDEO, dvi, vga and others . The thing also elevates/de-elevates and rotates.

 

Although all that stuff is cool, none of it is on my top priority list. Don't get me wrong, I love a sleek and functional housing on a product as much as the next guy, but to me I am looking for the bells and whistles to be found in the color, brightness, contrast, refresh rates, resolutions, etc.

I want PERFORMANCE baby!

 

I dunno how it is these days, but all Dell LCD's used to be made by Samsung.

 

Well yeah it has all that too. What i meant by "the screen is perfect" is that the image on this monitor is amazing. The "ultrasharp" models are the higher end dells with an even nicer picture than the regular ones.

 

That's funny.

 

I got them from NewEgg awhile back for $340 each. They're probably a lot cheaper now.

1. That's WoW. It's probably not your computer, it's their servers and the way their bloated software works. Don't even get me started on that game... Blizzard can suck a d***. WC3 is where I stopped.

2. Yes absolutely. That's a gigantic bottleneck, your CPU and RAM are limiting your GPU big time. BUT, if you're just running that game and nothing really more intense than you shouldn't need to upgrade. Some more RAM might help out with your lag issue if it's being overloaded.

Actually it would probably **** on you . 8800GTX's aren't even comparable to 8800GTS's that have the G92 architecture. Plus the overclocking on these things is insane. I run mine at 800MHz Core, 1800MHz Shader, and 2000MHz Memory as a daily overclock. With the fan cranked up a bit on the stock cooler this thing never sees over 65C even in the most intense games.

Oh, and I get around 17-18k in 3D06. Quad Core QX9650 Engineering Sample at 4.0GHz seems to help a bit...


Agreed.

Not completely agreed. Parts of a computer don't rely THAT heavily on each other. An example is if you have a really old and slow hard drive. That's not going to negatively affect the way that your graphics card puts video on the screen. Or if a computer has a really crappy sound card. That doesn't necessarily make that computer suck.

But yes, certain parts do sometimes rely heavily on other parts. Not all the time though.

 

i dunno for gaming id take 2x250gb 7200rpm drives in raid0 over a single 20gb 5400rpm drive anyday