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Im pretty sure one of those monsters can run Raven Shield flawlessly . So i have to pick either a P4(Area-51) or an AMD (Aurora). Does anyone have suggestions on which one I should get? I beleive the Aurora is cheaper but my dad said the Area-51 would be better. Also, should I get a Radeon 9800 Pro OR a Geforce Fx 5900? Whichever would be best for Raven Shield [img]/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif[/img]

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Im pretty sure one of those monsters can run Raven Shield flawlessly . So i have to pick either a P4(Area-51) or an AMD (Aurora). Does anyone have suggestions on which one I should get? I beleive the Aurora is cheaper but my dad said the Area-51 would be better. Also, should I get a Radeon 9800 Pro OR a Geforce Fx 5900? Whichever would be best for Raven Shield [img]/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif[/img]

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Build your own. It will be a lot cheaper, except you won't get teh super cool case

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FallenForce wrote:
- Build your own. It will be a lot cheaper, except you
- won't get teh super cool case
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I tottally Agree. Build your own or go for something cheaper. If money is no option, then definetly build your own. Only get an AlienWare if it's what u really want. So fKin expensifve.


I saw a AMD XP BARTON 3001+ with 512 Ram and a AGP 8x Video slot for around 849$....

Add a video card and you got a DECENT gaming machine.

spend the extra 500 dollars on games and A monitor

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FallenForce wrote:
- Build your own. It will be a lot cheaper, except you
- won't get teh super cool case

true, you save an avrage of $1000

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Spinnaker wrote:
- FallenForce wrote:
-- Build your own. It will be a lot cheaper, except you
-- won't get teh super cool case
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- true, you save an avrage of $1000
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True True, you pay for the case and the brand which is IMO not worth it.

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FallenForce wrote:
- Build your own. It will be a lot cheaper, except you
- won't get teh super cool case

Thats assuming you know what you are doing, have lots of time and don't screw up and wind up wasting $1000.

But you could still get a super cool case.

I have an Alienware. Love it.

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Build one!
Design your own case!
Use the extra money to add other Drives... bigger monitor... Games...

Save a lot of money. In a year or so it wont matter what computer you have when you are trying to upgrade it while your family is still paying the original off.

"Brave Rifles!"

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Guidon666 wrote:
- Design your own case!

+1

look at this and then tell me if alienware' cases can match it.

http://divxstation.com/comm/thread.asp?i=16&t=25160&r=0

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UMP.45ACP wrote:
- Also, should I get a Radeon 9800 Pro OR a
- Geforce Fx 5900? Whichever would be best for Raven
- Shield

I will just quote my self from another 5900/9800 post:

"I would say go for the 9800pro which in my opinion is a better card. Both have great performance but 9800 as better image quality (AA). 5900U suffer from really bad PS2.0 (DX9) performance compared to 9800 which probably will make the 9800 a better card for future DX9 games like Half-Life 2 (of course no one can tell for sure until the game is released).
Another (BIG) reason why I prefer the ATI card is because of the recently driver "optimizations" (cheats) that has been discover. NVidia has been caught cheating in a number of popular benchmark programs (including 3Dmark03,Shadermark) and even game timedemos (UT2k3). ATI was also caught cheating in 3Dmark03 and they removed the optimization with the next driver release but nVidia is not removing the "optimations" from their driver.

Check out this review that doesn't use the normal benchmark programs/games (well execpt for UT2k3):
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_cont...3x5900u&page=1 "