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Don’t give up on Vista?
After all the Mac guy vs. PC guy videos, you might think they’re running out of ideas. Not so. This one is too funny (especially since I’m struggling with Vista every day…):
Gaming PC upgrade for $500
Firing Squad has a break-down of a $500 gaming PC upgrade. Roughly the components are as follows:
Component
Suggestion
Price
Supplier
Notes
GPU
NVidia GeForce 8800 GT
$249.99
Zipzoomfly
Alternatives: Radeon X1950 Pro
CPU
Athlon 64 X2 4000+
$75.90
Zipzoomfly
Newegg has same price for X2 4000+ and X2 4800+, $99.99. Alternative: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H
$79.99
Newegg
AMD-690 chipset, micro-ATX. Alternative: MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (ATX).
Memory
OCZ PC2-6400 Paltinum Revision 2 Dual [...]