The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 1

Dell Computer Corporation
Dell DIMENSION 8300
Pentium 4
2.79 GHz
512MB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

It's so fast...and pretty, it's in black, I love my baby. :P</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Dont forget to get all the available windows updates.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Heh...I remember you posted the specs for a 300mHz computer some years back. But in a few months after that, I had built myself a 400mHz computer. =8^) I'll be getting an AMD64 soon.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>My dad sent me down an eMac for Christmas, I really don't know shit about it though other than it seems to run better than my 2.4 ghZ, 512 MB RAM PC. Plus it looks damn cool compared to any PC I ever had. I especially like the ease I have switching between Swedish, English, and Danish alphabets.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>A Mac huh? You have joined the dark side my son. :)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Mac's are good. The only reason i wouldnt switch is because games take longer to come out for then (if at all) and i dont feel like relearning a new OS and office programs.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>PCs are for gaming. Macs are great for photochopping and video editing. I'll get one soon. I might try to do some Wedding stuff as a side job. I'll need about $15,000 to get started though. Ugh.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Oops. Before I get chastised by the PC philistines, I'm talking about ~MY~ PC's.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>If I was to buy a computer tomorrow, it would probably be a PowerBook. Mac OS X is the prettiest interface Unix has ever seen, and you can still get stuff that just plain works.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Thats a really, really shitty video card. Otherwise good. The 5200s are horridly slow.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Its not that bad, atleast it is DX9.0. It will be able to play HL2 and Doom3, just without the settings cranked up and who really plays games like that anyways?</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>New case, mobo, and video card (Radeon 9200 128 MB). I'd have spent more for a better video card, but as it was my old mobo wouldn't support anything better than what it already had inside (GeForce4 MX420 64 MB), so I ended up having to shell out extra for that, plus the case and power supply. Doesn't bother me too much, since the new mobo has plenty of upgrade potential. The best thing of all was that I didn't have to have Windows reloaded, which seems to be the exception to the rule.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>sweet, maybe you wont lag now in 2on2's :)</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Noooo you dirt bitch, I got my comp specifically so I could load faster then you all the time. :P</div>

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Im working on a new one...so far I have an awesome case, mobo, hdd, and dvd burner, cd drive...working on the rest eventually.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Getting ready to upgrade my PC soon too. Time to dive back into the world of mobo/chip tech reviews and prices since I don't keep up with this stuff on a regular basis.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>FOCUS!!!!</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Uh, a lot of people do. Thats the point of getting a nice PC. And yes, the 5200s are that bad, and still may not play Doom3 acceptably.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Athlon 64 3000+
1 GB PC3500
GF FX5900 Ultra
240GB HD Space

Ahh yes, feel the power now :)</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>GeForce FX? Yeah, I feel something alright. *holds in barely contained laugh of utter contempt*</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Does your house have an alarm? No? Goooooood.</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>128 or 256 mb vid card?</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Oh, and what mobo/chipset are you using?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showd ... ?i=1922</a>

For the Athlon64 i would reccomend the SiS 755 chipset. Anandtech loved it and claims its the best one out there.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Probably the ECS 755-A SiS based like Flip said, but I'm strongly considering VIA and Nforce boards too, since I'm wary of ECS</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>128. 256 doesn't make much of a difference right now and is just fucking expensive</div>