New PC coming soon.

[daofcmacg]

Well yesterday I ordered my new pc and next week I will be ordering my new graphics card also.

Here is some of the specs on the PC:
1.86GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 processor
19" diagonal widescreen LCD monitor
2GB DDR2 SDRAM
320GB hard drive
16X DVD+/-RW dual-layer optical drive
integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 video graphics

and since that is a sucky video card I am going to be ordering this one next week:
EVGA e-GeForce 7950 GT KO SUPERCLOCKED - graphics adapter - GF 7950 GT - 51.

DA

[VEGETA]

to be honest I would not even get a system with a integrated graphics card in it, and thats it. Its more crap on the bord to screw up in the end.

[daofcmacg]

your right but its a package deal and the Finance Minister of my Kingdom won't let me do what I want to so I have to make due with what funds she gives me (the machine cost $1249). Hell she dosen't know about the NVIDIA yet and if I get my way she never will.

I know that the Core 2 Duo E6300 is the starter package of that line but hey its five hundred times better than what I have plus in three months I will purchase one of its more robust brothers (E6600 or 6700 or if business is really good the 6800) and motherboard and thats all I will need to upgrade (of course you know another gig of memory will more than likely find its way into the box) in this computer. Now you guys know if it were up to me I would be spending about $3500 building my own box wondering whatelse can I fit in there after that is spent. Have you guys seen the 42 inch wide screen digital monitors/TV's, all I can say is heaven and I will never forget where I was when I saw it. Of all places Best Freakin Buy. Man you can be across a 10'x14' room and it would still look like a 17" CRT.

DA

[Hammer]

it may be that they are just built into the mainboard you are getting...and you can not decide to not keep them. if it is in there, no big deal just disable it in the bios. sometimes they can be useful as a secondary display...

[VEGETA]

with 2 GB ram you could use it as a dual display BUt 90% chance that built in card uses the built in ram (dropes the price of a system to do that) but it eats ram. so you can say that ram number goes down which may impact gaming performance. right now most if not all games should be fine BUt later when games are MIN 2 GB (that is relay not far off) then you will have issues.

[daofcmacg]

Yeah your right Vegeta, they made mention to to shared memory allocation of 24mb to 224mb max. When I saw that it screamed your stealing some of my 2gig.