2010-09-17, 01:47 AM
23.6" is a bit big for a display. I'd rather say a 19" 1440x900 screen would be more economical. Good monitor but a bit costly.
Did they have anything in the GTS series for the GeForce 4xx series that was 1GB but comparable? Good find on the warranty though.
You could sacrifice on those two and save the CPU and motherboard. Warranty might be less on the video card, but it would be less costly and leave some room to work with price-wise..
Also, you forgot the case, and the case fans.
Edit:
C-Media isn't that bad... they're better than Creative by a long shot... actually I take that back... ANYTHING is better than Creative. PERIOD! M-Audio is too overpriced.
ASUS makes some high end C-Media Oxygen HD powered cards under their Xonar label. Good cards BTW. Only thing I don't like about RealTek is they aren't capable of hardware acceleration and don't support Vista and 7's DirectSound GX extensions or OpenAL.
Did they have anything in the GTS series for the GeForce 4xx series that was 1GB but comparable? Good find on the warranty though.
You could sacrifice on those two and save the CPU and motherboard. Warranty might be less on the video card, but it would be less costly and leave some room to work with price-wise..
Also, you forgot the case, and the case fans.
Edit:
C-Media isn't that bad... they're better than Creative by a long shot... actually I take that back... ANYTHING is better than Creative. PERIOD! M-Audio is too overpriced.
ASUS makes some high end C-Media Oxygen HD powered cards under their Xonar label. Good cards BTW. Only thing I don't like about RealTek is they aren't capable of hardware acceleration and don't support Vista and 7's DirectSound GX extensions or OpenAL.