$300 sounds like a lot for a video card. Maybe it depends on how many games you play. Me, I never spend more then $150 on a video card (half what you spend).
Dead? You think it is dead?
Microsoft is coming out with Vista that will fully support 64-bit. I agree there is no point to use 64-bit Windows XP, however 64-bit is far from being dead. Once Vista gets released that will breathe new life into it.
Don't own a laptop, but my father does. You will never guess the reason he bought a laptop.......
The reason he bought a laptop instead of a desktop pc was because he has <b>no</b> desktop. I mean to say he has no desk. He never purchased a desk and he lives in a small house, and did not...
Never free. The manufacturer ups the price on the motherboard to add in the cost of the audio chip. Plus you pay for all the audio cables they throw in the box.
Never buy Sony products. You paying for the name, and most of the time Sony doesn't even manufacturer it's own products anymore.
Get a Samsung. They produce CRT and LCD monitors of equal quality to Sony.
I use air cooling. Not sensible to spend hundreds of dollars on water cooling to cool a cpu that only costs a couple hundred. Good air cooling is only 40.
In my personal computer, the highest price item is the video card for 289.