Planning to buy a new video card... need advice

[Genocidicbunny]

Which reminds me, when is Nehalem supposed to be released?

End of the year ( 'round November iirc)

 

[Zhuge_Liang]

medium-high grade?

you joking?

you can build a GREAT machine for $2500 easy

BUT I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO BUILD ONE!

 

[illram]

BUT I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO BUILD ONE!

It's really easy, actually. These days you basically just plug stuff and snap stuff together and you're done, if you've got the right components. I did it for the first time last year myself, it was fun.

If you don't want to do that you can get a good deal over at places like ibuypower.com, basically the same as building it yourself but they add like $200 for making it for you. (Very customizable component wise, which is why I say it's almost like building it yourself.)

 

[Ghost Ranger]

It's really easy, actually. These days you basically just plug stuff and snap stuff together and you're done, if you've got the right components. I did it for the first time last year myself, it was fun.

If you don't want to do that you can get a good deal over at places like ibuypower.com, basically the same as building it yourself but they add like $200 for making it for you. (Very customizable component wise, which is why I say it's almost like building it yourself.)

I would agree. I just built my first computer a month ago, and it was really easy. The difficult part is getting the software to work...