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Originally posted by Dragonlich
Depending on what you do, your processor might not be the bottleneck of the computer, but your harddisk, videocard or memory might be. A well balanced system is better than one with one very fast part, and moderate parts everywhere else.
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Wise words. An Athlon 64 in a gaming rig would be wasted on a GeForce4 and regular hard drive. You're only getting a fraction of the performance you paid for.I would recommend a hard drive with 8MB cache and a Radeon 9600 Pro (or a better Radeon, if you can afford it). Corsair is great RAM, though. Don't be tempted by the low prices on GeiL. High memory timings tweaked so they can get their speeds so high. It's not a good tradeoff.