Planning on building a new PC next year...

[The Zigman]

I run a sign shop, and my software was not Vista capable, I called the software company and the said they had no immediate plans to release a Vista capable version, so I scrapped Vista.... Now 3 months later, BAM... the Vista version of my software is available, I bought it, and it runs greaton XP!! and I have no comments about not buying any OS software since windows 95... (oops!)

 

[Slappy*McFish]

Did I miss the part where you said what you wanted to do with this PC? Are you into Gaming, or Graphics? Do you just send email and surf noodie sites? I havent bought a computer in 1 piece since my old 386, I have built every one since then. It truely depends on what you want the machine to do. I have an HP DV6000 laptop with 2 gigs of RAM and a half terrabyte of HD that works for me just fine with an AMD Turion 64 2GHZ processor... (I scrapped vista and re configureed it to run XP) Then there is the computer upstairs... Pushes 4 GB ram and over a terrabite of SATA HDD's... I am building it to host my new website and gigabit network.

This will be a home system used for gaming, graphics, web-surfing, watching movies, listening to music, etc, etc. Plus I just enjoy building and tweaking. Is it necessary to build a powerhouse system? Nah, but it's fun.