GPU: Low profile video card (Boli, I don't know how it will handle the with borders on the green and red candlesticks ) Original price: $55.99 Final price (after rebate): $19.99 AND a very nice little gift for FREE (See at the bottom of ad). A free baseball cap with Newegg logo (Good for Went Fishing................when you do go fishing ) <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3270400.png"> Amazon has some pretty good ratings on this too. http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GeForce-P...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1313316598&sr=1-1
The task of assembling component parts to make up a PC these days is very simple. There aren't that many parts. Any complexity would come from the software install, BIOS/CMOS settings, sequence of things (e.g. you would need to partition your disk drive before any OS installation), compatibility of various components, dealing with Microsoft's imposed limits (e.g. disk partition size, physicaly memory limitation in various Windows versions and editions)... and lastly once your box is up and running, protecting yourself against disasters. And so far viruses are the most difficult ones to deal with because they present so many different symptoms.
I checked the Passmark score and it seems pretty good. Passmark "Average G3G Mark" GeForce GT 520: 360 Compared to my "benchmark models": Quadro NVS 295: 203 GeForce 8400 GS: 139 http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GT+520 http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Quadro+NVS+295 http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+8400+GS
They can shrink down a partition size now? That's incredible! Ok... the complexity comes in if you want to do something like a dual-boot with different versions of Windows on the same machine/disk. Or boot up Microsoft Windows and Linux OS. Or setting up various virtual environments, like running MacOS in Windows, running Linux in Windows, running multiple virtual machines with various settings on the same physical box, mapping network drives, setting various active directory policies, setting MAC address filtering on your router to enable only your PC to access the internet, set up VPN to communicate with another machine at a remote location, set up firewalls.... okay Tiki go dig up some more videos!!!! LOL
This is incredible! The Computer Management MSC, if I remember it correctly, used to be only available in the server class of Windows OS (e.g. Windows 2003 Server). Not XP, not Vista. Now they make it available for desktop version in Windows 7.
And Sam, our resident Shopping King... Please find me some good deals on internal disk drives, 3 TB or above...