What to look for when shopping around for new pc

[Gee]

Rawfuls it kind of like auto mechanic. The last thing he want to deal with when he gets off work is another car. The last thing I want to deal with is cables or any home pc problem. I do not tell anyone I know outside of work that I know anything about computers anymore. Soon as they know that the only time you hear from theml. I got a problem with my home computer. Too bad. This is my home cable management style. The patch panels and switches at work look sweet. Very professional and tight cable management, but at home..... f it, I got other things I would much rather do. lol


Squeeze ftw. The extra mobos and some usb to sata/ide adapters. Throw in a extra ps with the green and black jumpered to power the other drives. Got a couple fans from some old ML530 servers to keep them cool when they start gettting too warm. We all know heat kill electronics.

Can't remember the last time I actually spend money on anything related to a pc. It had to of been one of the usb to ide adapter. But we had those fail at work and once I dug them out of the special trash can at work. I got them home and found it was faulty power cords. Once I found the problem I fixed any of the ones at work the were having the problems also. So far I haven't found anything larger then a 500mb hd in the garbage at work. Last time I was looking at buying a hd those tb sizes were close to 200 bucks. They are down to 80 now? That's a good price.

I got two 80gb hard drive that are used for an OS. One's on standby and the others running the show. It get's a virus or goes down the other get slapped in to take over. The rest are just storage drive for data backups, DVD movies, music, pictures, etc. Got a couple 500gb, couple 400, and couple 320s, 1 250 and the rest are 120gb drive. I do have a 4gb hard drive but haven't found a reason to hook it up yet. lol Maxtor, Seagate, and WDs make up the melting pot and they are all accessable by my account from my pc or the other two older pcs that are on my lan. One out in the garage and the other I keep up and running in the kitchen nook so people (neighbors and friends) don't ask to use this workstation. They can use it to access the net or whatever from it as a with a guest account. Oh, and this older pc is setup for two flat screen monitors and two tv's all independent from each other. Kind of a cool setup. I found the picture that is in the picture to be just a little small for my eyes. Decided to put the old tv to use. The two ATI cards I got installed in here have teh svga output jack in addition to the dvi out connections and the sound system runs through my Sony 7.1 surround sound receiver. Like the auto mechanic sometime I do mess around with the engine in my own car. Just to see if it can be done really.

I only have a 128mb and 256mb on the video cards. Does having a 512mb video card help a lot by freeing up you processors?