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Originally posted by Sir Mandorallen:
Well, I know I don't need:
1.) A dvd player or burner.
2.) A moniter. (so long as the one we have now will be compatable with the new computer)
3.) Speakers. I have some Monsoons.
4.) A mouse. We have about three. 
All we really need is the tower. With a pentium 4, a cd burner, about 50-80 gigs of space, something above 128 ram but below the outragoues 500 mark, a GeForce 4 64meg, and a very good sound card.
What we have now is a custom made computer that was very low priced but lacked reliable components.
It has:
A pentium III equivalent-700MHZ
128 ram
40 gig hard drive
56k modem (I can't get broadband)
CD burner
Stealth III 3d card (sux)
I don't know our sound card but it sux
It ran smoothly until it hit Jedi Knight II. Ouch. So much for my frame-rates. [img]smile.gif[/img]
That and its getting full, is getting quirks, and isn't running quite as smoothly after it crashed to the point of oblivion. Now I can't even play UT.  And its not all that old.
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What exactly is a pentium III equivalent? A Celeron perhaps?
Your only real problem with this system is the video card. If you look at most system requirements on software boxes they don't even top 500MHZ. Recommended doesn't even get above 800MHZ.
The biggest problem with technology is it moves too damn fast, but it's at the point now, were it won't go any further without drastic changes. For example, most hard drives are limited to 137GB, as motherboard technology won't recognize single drives bigger but hard drives are still mechanical. CPU's run at 2.0+ GHZ but RAM is limited to the speed of the FSB, which tops out at 533MHZ at the moment. Video cards run at 350MHZ. The CPU may be really fast, but the rest of the system is slowing it down.
I would think that within a year or so, we'll see a drastic change in computer technology. Again, ask yourself what do I really need? 2.53GHZ is cool, but is it really necessary at the moment when next month 3.0GHZ will be the flavour of the day.