Building my Computer for FFXI ... your thoughts please

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Originally posted by kowboy
I have the All in Wonder 9800 because actually use the RCA inputs to rip stuff for my movie projects. I also hook up my cable to it so I can watch TV.

If you are shooting for the 5000 barrier...go with the Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB model. It seems like you are not holding back on anything, get the best.

the 256 9800 pro is actually worse in most games compared to the 128 mb one, unless it's on 8x agp. even so, it still doesn't provide much better.

my comp breaks 5000 without overclocking:
2.53 p4(not ht type, has 533 fbs)
512 mb rdram(800 type, two 256 mb sticks in slots 1 and 2)
80 gig 7200 rpm maxwell ide disk
64mb ddr ti4200 (45.53 driver and dx9.0b)
xp home edition

it's about a year old, but it's good

you could always go with this:
P4 3.2 800mhz bus
1gig 3200 ram (dule channel)
9800pro

aerobahn says he got 8200 with that config. over priced ($4000 easyly with retail os, office, good monitor, usb cards, good disk, etc.), but with another 1-3 gigs of ram(yes, some motherboards now are cheap enough to buy that have 4gig support[max for single 32 bit processor])


edit: beer, please get a different sig, it's burning my eyes.