I see you have an ATI 9700 and I guess you are a gamer.
yes. but i’m a developer first (programmer)! 🙂 Actually I bought the 9700 because 1) it’s an all in wonder and includes a TV (cable) tuner. I’m also a football fan and I’d freak if i couldn’t watcht the NY Jets on my system! 2) it’s 8x agp and I wanted to make full use of that on my intel d865perl board.
I use an ATI 9000Pro and thought about either the 9200 05 9600.
This is my second ati card and I’ve not been disapointed yet. Decent drivers. Good solid cards. BTW, the 9700 AIW blows away the old rage 128 AIW for television picture clarity. (software i suspect).
I can get the P4 system for less than an Athlon XP 3200+ system.
sounds like a nice system. I got mine a few months ago from <
http://www.googlegear.com> . I got one of the "barebones" systems and added in the dvd and the sata hard drive (only one). The vid card I got locally at a comp-usa. For me the motherboard was important. I chose the intel board for features and speec compatability. This is my first intel mobo and maybe not coincidentally, the first machine that I can actually use the sleep mode on without something on my system freaking out.