Okay, I went to Fry's and got an HP AMD 64x2 4600 and a pretty good Nec Multisync LCD monitor. I also got an additional SATA 500 gig drive to stick in (it has 320 already), and two external drive powered cases to put my old drives in. What with warranties and all, it still cost a pretty penny. :-) I almost got an Intel Duo Core, but the Fry's guy pointed this one out and said it was only marginally slower, but a whole $500+ cheaper.
I held off on a video card upgrade, because I didn't know what I was doing and it already has an NVida card. So it's good to read in this thread what people recommend. I'll try this out first, but now I know what to upgrade to if I decide to upgrade the video card. Probably going to take me two days to get up and running, because I am going to reformat the primary drive and get rid of the Media Center and go with XP Pro (for programming). Thanks to everyone for their input. Marnie aka Doe :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
