What are you going to use you computer for?

If you are going to use your pc to store digital photos, you are going to need a big hard drive, and a decent graphics card. If you are going to use your computer for intense gaming you are going to want a fast processor, lots of high speed ram and a great graphics card. If you are just buying a pc to do homework; write papers, play a few games, store a couple of photos on the hard drive you aren’t going to need a big expensive pc.

Here is a list of a pc suitable for the following uses

For the photo family...

Processor: AMD XP2500, cheap, very fast processor.

Graphics card: A NON integrated 64mb card, almost any brand will do.

Memory: I personally don't think anyone should get less than 512mb of DDR ram, anything else, in my opinion will be too slow.

Hard drive: Hard drives are over rated, lots of users think they need the biggest hard drive they can afford, that is not true. Lets say your digital camera takes a picture that is 2mb is size, which is very large, about 6 megapixels. With a 40gig hard drive you can get appoximently 20480 photos on it. I have yet to meet someone that has taken that many photos. A 40gig hard drive will fit most people and their camera, BUT do make sure it runs at  7200RPM .

Optical drives: Just get a 48 x 12 x 48 cd burner, very cheap and is fast.

That is all you have to worry about if you are going to use your pc for photo storage!

The hard core gamer, I am not necessarily going to give you a description of the parts, I might tell you what to get.

Processor: AMD 64bit 3200, one word, SPEED!

Graphics card: ATI Radeon 9800XT the only way to play.

Memory: Get 512mb to 1gig of DDR memory.

Hard drive: Any 10,00RPM hard disc will do

Optical drives: Just get a 52 x 16 x 52cd burner, fast for loading games on a cd. 

This build will give you quite a rush when playing intense games.

I'll call this the homework helper

Processor: AMD 2500XP, cheap and fast.

Graphics card: Any 64mb card.

Memory: I personally don't think anyone should get less than 512mb of DDR ram, anything else, in my opinion will be too slow.

Hard drive: Hard drives are over rated, lots of users think they need the biggest hard drive they can afford, that is not true. A 40gig hard drive will fit most people and their word files, BUT do make sure it runs at  7200RPM .

Optical drives: Just get a 48x 14x 48cd burner, fast for burning music and word files. If you're in college you might want a 16x dvd drive too.

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