Originally posted by Koitenshin +

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*starts singing "I'm schizophrenic and so am I"*

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Originally posted by Yoronosuku

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Oh!! And would it kill them to do the right Luigi voice for once? ._.;; It's by the same person as Mario, they can just have him do it instead of making Luigi sound like Mario in BOTH GAMES. It always got to me .__.;;

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• CPU: 1.5ghz and up should be fine for most things. Avoid Celerons; if possible, avoid Intel entirely. Having 2 CPUs will really help multitasking, but motherboards that support it aren't cheap.
  
• RAM: 128MB should be a bare minumum. 256 if you use your computer often, 512 if you do a lot of multitasking. 1GB and up is only really necessary if you play high-end games or do a lot of video editing. Once you hit 512, adding more won't improve performance nearly as much as it would if you had less. Speed is critical - it's one of the main factors in the speed of the system itself, but an incompatible speed will cause major stability problems.
  
• Hard drive: 40-60GB or so should be plenty for most people, but if you like to rip movies to your HD, you'll want at least 160. Movies take up a lot of space. Get the fastest drive you can afford (AFAIK 7200RPM is the fastest available for a reasonable price right now). The speed of your hard drive is one of the most significant performance factors. When I upgraded from a ~5000RPM drive to a 7200RPM, with the same CPU, RAM etc, everything ran at least twice as fast.
  Also note that the arrangement of IDE drives affects performance. Each drive connected to one cable will run the speed of the slowest drive on the cable. CD/DVD drives are especially slow. Putting your CD/DVD drives on one cable and hard drives on another is highly recommended. If you have two HDs, one faster than the other, you may want to consider connecting the slow one in line with the CD/DVD so that the faster one has the line to itself.
  
• Optical drive: A good quality CD writer + DVD reader won't cost much; one that writes DVDs will be a bit more. Get one that supports + and - if possible. Dual-layer DVDs, HD-DVD and Blu-ray are all still quite expensive.
  
• Video: It's important to note that the video card is essentially a mini-computer itself, with a processor, memory and BIOS/firmware all its own. People will try to convince you that Card A is better than Card B simply because Card A has twice as much RAM, but processor speed is also critical. If you don't play games (save for pre-N64 emulation), all you really need is a decent card with ~32-64MB. As far as types of cards go: PCI express > AGP > PCI > Onboard.
  
• Wifi: If you don't need it, don't buy it, simple as that. Note that many ISPs offer wireless routers with certain plans. Using a router gives you less control, but your computer won't have to be on 24/7 and won't get bogged down handling the traffic.
  
• Power supply: Go for at least 400 watts. If the components aren't getting enough power, it won't matter how much you spent on them.

Originally posted by GGS Cruel Justice

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I think he may have fixed it, I didn't see a blank anything.

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Originally posted by asdf

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Setzer screwed up good this time. Not that it's a bad thing; you can learn from mistakes. But a memory leak that got that out of control? Damn! That's ridiculous!

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