Thx for all the input fellow gp4 petrol-heads !!!
I like your exuberance Tony..... and Intel should pay you a spotter's fee
I have chosen the Intel P4 2.53ghz on an Albatron PX845PE Pro II Millenium Silver mobo. I fed it 512meg of Corsair XMS 3200 LowLatency DDR400 Ram and slapped a Seagate 80gig + 8megCache HD in there as well as a LiteON 48x24x48 CDRW. It's all housed in an ANTEC aluminium LANboy Tower which is a very nice box with quality 350watt PSU with blue strobe light and tri-color fans which look nice and perty via the Perspex window on the box. All that cost me $1385 Aussie Dollars which is very cheap in this part of the world but probably not as good as the deal you Yanks and Brits get ?!
I am keeping my ST Lab Gf4MX440 vidcard and trusty old Panasonic 17" monitor. Unfortunately I am in-between houses as I am pulling up stumps and moving from Queensland to New Zealand to be with my darling fiance.
Will report on how the system performs once I get settled and setup.
I am going to stick with Win98se on my new system as after playing around with XP and reading various reports I am not at all impressed with the lumbering Ox and how it takes over everything. More importantly it seems the FPS is slower for most people running Gp4.
Cheers
Vik (soon-to-be-immigrant-Kiwi-sheep-shagger)
ciao amigoes
P4 2.85gig Albatron mobo 512mb Corsair3200LL Ram 19"Auriga Mon. SBLive! + 4point surround spkrs. Thrustmaster F1 FF Wheel. Radeon9500pro Cat3.4 drivers. GP4 55fps 1024*768 - No VideoWalls/HeatHaze - Mirrors On.