Vendor Availability / Quality

Processor Speed

Peripherals / Upgrades

Ease Of Use

Conclusion

My System

My System

Well, some of you may be interested, after all this, to find out what I use in my daily life.  Here it is:

-AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @ 1800+ (1.54 GHz)
-Soyo K7V Dragon Plus KT266A motherboard

-512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM @266MHz (effective)
-20.4 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus (7200RPM)
-80.0 GB Seagate Barracuda IV (7200RPM)

-6.5 GB Seagate Medalist Pro (7200RPM)

-Visiontek Xtasy 6564 GeForce 3 ti 200 (@ 215 core / 490 mem)
-Antec SX1040B server case, with 400W power supply

-Windows XP Professional
-Sound Blaster Live! value sound card.

-16x Pioneer slot-load DVD-ROM (40x CD)
-Ricoh 7060A CD-RW drive (20x/6x/4x)
-Internal ATAPI Zip drive
-Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
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Microsoft Trackball Explorer
-19" ViewSonic A90f monitor
-Built-in 10/100 ethernet
-Cable Modem

-Cambridge PCWorks 4 Point Surround speakers.
-Hewlett Packard DeskJet 940C printer

-Epson Perfection 636U USB flatbed scanner

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