The only people who buy $500 PC's are grandmas who want to learn how to send e-mail to the family. They don't need windows Vista. All they need is a web browser and AOL.

Ewww.



AOL.





I just got and staged a lappie that was windows Vista ready. 5 hours to get it idiot proof for remote access and all the other stuff and a hour to explain to the idiot how to not forget his own password and name. Or how to swipe his finger over a print sensor.


Build a better machine.........

Uhh don't know if you realize but DirectX 10 is a technology for Vista too, so to support ALL vista features you're gonna need at least a slightly more expensive graphics card since you can't use last-gen stuff with DirectX 9. But hey, I fixed all those little problems with my system, my $4500 8800GTX (x2) in (1.5gb RAM altogether!) SLI, Aegia 128mb Physx card, Athlon FX-74 (quad-core) 64-bit (obviously), Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum, Liquid cooled, 2gb XMS2 Xtreme RAM, 640gb RAID 0 BACKUP drives (yeah, backup), Nforce 570 SLI motherboard, and yes....yes..... the hardware to end all hardware, the beast that'll increase the whole system's speed I'd say at LEAST 5x and take away all bottlenecks in the system.......... my 8gb PCI SSD (Solid State Drive). And the monitors I already have, 2x 19" widescreen AGM monitors. Yeah. Yeah.

By the way, the only reason I can afford this is cause I'm a new Marine and you may or may not know, until you have a high enough rank the military pays for EVERYTHING so all my paychecks go to fun stuff, like my computer and when I get this, everything goes to my car.

Anyway, building a better system IS right, just get past that price bump for future-ready hardware and there you go. I say to be truly Vista ready you need:

multi-core processor
64-bit processor (I really don't see any advantage to 64-bit but hey, just for compatibility)
DirectX 10 graphics card (yeah right now it's just the 8800 series so that sucks for budget buyers)
2gb RAM (at least)

AMDCamUhh don't know if you realize but DirectX 10 is a technology for Vista too, so to support ALL vista features you're gonna need at least a slightly more expensive graphics card since you can't use last-gen stuff with DirectX 9. But hey, I fixed all those little problems with my system, my $4500 8800GTX (x2) in (1.5gb RAM altogether!) SLI, Aegia 128mb Physx card, Athlon FX-74 (quad-core) 64-bit (obviously), Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum, Liquid cooled, 2gb XMS2 Xtreme RAM, 640gb RAID 0 BACKUP drives (yeah, backup), Nforce 570 SLI motherboard, and yes....yes..... the hardware to end all hardware, the beast that'll increase the whole system's speed I'd say at LEAST 5x and take away all bottlenecks in the system.......... my 8gb PCI SSD (Solid State Drive). And the monitors I already have, 2x 19" widescreen AGM monitors. Yeah. Yeah.

By the way, the only reason I can afford this is cause I'm a new Marine and you may or may not know, until you have a high enough rank the military pays for EVERYTHING so all my paychecks go to fun stuff, like my computer and when I get this, everything goes to my car.

Anyway, building a better system IS right, just get past that price bump for future-ready hardware and there you go. I say to be truly Vista ready you need:

multi-core processor
64-bit processor (I really don't see any advantage to 64-bit but hey, just for compatibility)
DirectX 10 graphics card (yeah right now it's just the 8800 series so that sucks for budget buyers)
2gb RAM (at least)

You and I want and need DX10... My point is this: Grandmas don't need it! They need a shatty, bloody cheap computer so they can log onto aol and send e-mail... If you're only going to spend 5-600 dollars on a PC, that's all you're going to get. Hell, my Graphics card costs that much.

AMDCamUhh don't know if you realize but DirectX 10 is a technology for Vista too, so to support ALL vista features you're gonna need at least a slightly more expensive graphics card since you can't use last-gen stuff with DirectX 9. But hey, I fixed all those little problems with my system, my $4500 8800GTX (x2) in (1.5gb RAM altogether!) SLI, Aegia 128mb Physx card, Athlon FX-74 (quad-core) 64-bit (obviously), Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum, Liquid cooled, 2gb XMS2 Xtreme RAM, 640gb RAID 0 BACKUP drives (yeah, backup), Nforce 570 SLI motherboard, and yes....yes..... the hardware to end all hardware, the beast that'll increase the whole system's speed I'd say at LEAST 5x and take away all bottlenecks in the system.......... my 8gb PCI SSD (Solid State Drive). And the monitors I already have, 2x 19" widescreen AGM monitors. Yeah. Yeah.

By the way, the only reason I can afford this is cause I'm a new Marine and you may or may not know, until you have a high enough rank the military pays for EVERYTHING so all my paychecks go to fun stuff, like my computer and when I get this, everything goes to my car.

Anyway, building a better system IS right, just get past that price bump for future-ready hardware and there you go. I say to be truly Vista ready you need:

multi-core processor
64-bit processor (I really don't see any advantage to 64-bit but hey, just for compatibility)
DirectX 10 graphics card (yeah right now it's just the 8800 series so that sucks for budget buyers)
2gb RAM (at least)

Now that sounds like a beast of a rig and it sounds very much like you deserve it! Fair play to anyone who puts their life on the line for others!

Enjoy it!

;)

One thing that strikes me as strange- Why are you trying to shove a Quad FX processor into a motherboard that only has one CPU slot? :).

zekrahminatorOne thing that strikes me as strange- Why are you trying to shove a Quad FX processor into a motherboard that only has one CPU slot? :).

Cant knock the zek, he does his homework! ;)

I think he meant the 680i or whichever the new 6XX Nvidia came out for with the Quad FX

WarEagleAUI think he meant the 680i or whichever the new 6XX Nvidia came out for with the Quad FX

Im only jealous lol

That baby will cook your tea and give you a bloody good blow job aswel! :laugh:

lol thanks for the kind words alcpone, I'm not sure exactly which mobo though cause ....sadly.... I'm not building this one, for the first time in 7 years I'm BUYING a desktop, but I got no time to build it cause I get stationed January 2nd and it's gonna be pretty hectic for a while. So I'm buying an ibuypower 4x4 that comes with the FX-74, but it just said Nvidia SLI mobo and the latest I've heard (I'm like a month out-of-date here) was the 5x0 mcp mobo's, but I didn't know the quad-core had a whole new socket. So whatever motherboard it is, it's an Nvidia MCP with SLI, so if it's a 6 series even sweeter!

AMDCamlol thanks for the kind words alcpone, I'm not sure exactly which mobo though cause ....sadly.... I'm not building this one, for the first time in 7 years I'm BUYING a desktop, but I got no time to build it cause I get stationed January 2nd and it's gonna be pretty hectic for a while. So I'm buying an ibuypower 4x4 that comes with the FX-74, but it just said Nvidia SLI mobo and the latest I've heard (I'm like a month out-of-date here) was the 5x0 mcp mobo's, but I didn't know the quad-core had a whole new socket. So whatever motherboard it is, it's an Nvidia MCP with SLI, so if it's a 6 series even sweeter!

You wont have the pleasure of putting it all together, but thats not the end of the world I suppose, if you've got the cash you should spend it!

That will be a sweet system, either built by you or a firm!

Make sure you post some bench's so we can look in amasement!

;)