out of Micro ATX, ATX, Extend ATX, BTX which one is the "best"?
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Best is a rather arbitrary opinion type of thing.  Anyway, Micro ATX are generally small and don't have as much room for expansion, while Extended ATX is a little too big.  BTX is probably a little bit better, but it is very hard to find, so your best bet is probably ATX, that is by far the most common.
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1-amd turion\n2-centrino duo\n3-centrino solo\n4-pent-m
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anything with an AMD Athlon X2 processor and PCI expansion slots. the Athlon X2 is the best processer for gaming. you may not believe me wen you look at the specs compared to an intel Pentium D or a Pentium 4 because it comes in a at significantly less amount of GHz. however the FSB of an Atlon X2 is significantly higher and it doesnt overheat as much a Pentium therefore significantly increasing the performance. The PCIexpress slots are for your video card, the other major component in gaming. Most good video card are PCIe. ATI X1800xt is what i recommend. although others preffer Nvidea. You should also have a bout 3.2 Gigs of RAM. I would say get more if your using a non-windows comp, but windows will only register 3.2 gigs of RAM. The size of the hard drive isn't going to matter except for storage, but you will want to check the speed of it. Make sure it is at least 7200RPMs, with a SATA not ATA connection. This will increase how quickly information can be retrieved from the disk. Thats about it. If your gunna buy one also stay away from Dells for gaming PCs as their motherboards dont have a good FSB to match that of the recommended processor. If your gunna build one buy all the components i just described but slap it all on an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard. IT WILL COST YOU SIGNIFICANTLY LESS TO BUILD YOUR OWN PC. check pricesgrabber.com for all the components. Building your own PC may seem a rather daunting task but it is rather simple. HAVE FUNN WITH YOUR GAMING RIG!!!!
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First, check to see if the case and PS are proprietary. Many brands are like that.  That setup cannot be reused if it is proprietary. BTDTGTTS. I use GENERIC cases now when I build a PC. The Power Supply should handle 350 Watts or better. \n\nIf it is not proprietary, it should handle an ATX form factor motherboard. They come in a MICRO factor as well. Then invest in a GOOD motherboard that is upgradeable to Dual or even Quad Core microprocessors. 4 or more RAM slots that handle DDR2 ram.\n\nI went with a Tforce 550 MB because I am a cheap person and I don't need the latest and greatest......
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AMD for me. They keep the lowest prices for the productivity.
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no problem man. these are all ATI AGP video cards in the range of $200 ..$300, the best is IMO the ATI 100-435603 Radeon X850XT 256MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X.\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2000380048+1069609639+4018+1305520549&Submit=ENE&Subcategory=48
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Depends on what you are looking for...\n\nATI\n------------------------------\nPros\nATI is one of the original big names in video cards, long before Nvidia. They have very high quality video cards right out of the box without a need to overclock them. They focus heavily on amazingly beautiful and smooth graphics. Even their lower end cards perform well.\n\nCons\nThey don't provide software driver updates nearly as often. They are less configurable if you WANT to overclock. \n\n\nNvidia\n--------------------\nPros\nNvidia broke ground quickly on the video card market by providing fast cards at low prices. In the past, their primary focus has been on great specs (benchmarks, frame rates, etc) to help sell their cards. Now they are focusing more on image quality and smooth game play. They are very good about providing the latest software driver updates for their equipment. Their cards are extremely configurable for overclocking.\n\nCons\nTheir gpu's became known as being fast, but choppy during gameplay. Their lower end cards aren't that great performance-wise. \n\n-------------------------\n\nToday, the competition between these two has become much closer. It's hard to say who the winner is at any given time, because as one comes out with a winning model, a few weeks later, the other trumps it. \n\n\nHere is a conclusion from a recent report:\n(by Ilya Gavrichenkov of X-bit Labs)\n\n"I would like to draw your particular attention to mainstream professional solutions that proved very interesting. We were especially happy with the Nvidia Quadro FX 3500. Thanks to its fast memory and G71 GPU this solutions demonstrated superior performance and sometimes proved even faster than its high-end brother.\n\nIts rival, ATI FireGL V7200, also performed quite well in our test session. It demonstrated the same performance as its more expensive fellow – FireGL V7350. So, if you do not need 1GB of graphics memory, and are happy with ATI’s professional graphics solutions, then FireGL V7200 will be a great choice for you.\n\nSumming up, I wouldn’t give any specific recommendations about purchasing this or that professional product. These solutions are quite expensive and you should address this matter responsibly. Especially, since professional users are very rarely working in several different applications at the same time. Therefore, your choice of a workstation graphics card will be strictly determined by the type of applications you will be running on your platform. Of course, Nvidia Quadro FX solutions are faster in most cases than ATI FireGL, however there are tasks where FireGL will be irreplaceable. For example, in Maya. So, we encourage those of you who have read this article to the end to make your own conclusions basing on the results and analysis we have shared with you today."\n\n----------------------\nPersonally,  I have respect for both, though I currently prefer an ATI card.
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Well that is a little bit vague, bit I will go with fastest/most powerful as what you meant.  That would probably be the Radeon X1950XTX, but that will change on Wednesday when the GeForce 8800GTX comes out, it will blow everything else away.
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For AGP, this would be the best: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/6600AGP_Series.html- the £120 6800GS is by far the best deal.  It's at least 70% faster than a 6600GT, which is nearly as expensive.\n\nFor PCI-E, either of the bottom two on this page would give you very, very good performance: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/6800PCI_Series.html, although the 7600GS's and 7600GT's on this page would give better performance, for not much more money: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7300___7600_Series.html\n\nedit: ATI doesn't have much performance in that price range, so that's why I didn't mention ATI.
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There's no contest, dual or single core, the Athlon 64 is by far the best of the bunch. If you want the best, choose an AMD Athlon 64 in dual core formation.
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Right now, AMD makes the best processors in my opinion. This doesn't mean that all AMD processors are better than Intel processors, however, just that the top of the line AMDs are the best you can get in my opinion. You are on the right track getting dual core. Don't look at clock speeds if you are comparing Intel to AMD, as they rate them differently and AMDs report slower clock speeds even though the chip may be faster. If you really want to get down to it, checck the benchmarks that http://www.tomshardware.com have. They will help to show which processors are faster at which tasks.\n\nIf my answer was helpful, don't forget to consider rating it as the best. Thanks!
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More directly.\n\nhttp://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html\n\nTo save you some time I would say Athlons are for the most part are a better CPU. It is a much more efficent and effective CPU with low energy consumption/heat dissipation, high preformance per watt ratings, nativley desined for dual core and 64bit capacities, hypertransport bus technology. The pentium 4 has been a dog from conception, and the netburst technology from which its based is on its way out. Its in fact intel thats playing catch up with athlon.
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serial is the interface, much like parallel, and ATA stands for Advanced Technology Attachment.\n\nFor the answerer above, ATX would be the motherboard layout.
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It's a new standard coming out right now for computers. There's PCI-E x1 and x16. Both slots differ in size with the x16 one being longer. The latter is quickly replacing AGP8x as the slot of chouce for newer videocards thanks to the really fast transfer rate
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The fastest PCI video card you can buy is the 256MB ATI 9250: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102527  If you meant PCI-e, then this would be the best card for the money: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814131319 although you'd probably be happy with this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814161161
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The best PCI video card on the market right now is Radeon X1300 256MB GDDR2 PCI. Much better than FX5200 in every way .. except price :)
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Well sorry to say this but the 7800 GTX processor from nvidia isn't te best one. It was untill ATI released the new radeon 1900 processor. It's aprox 10% faster. But things aren't going to stop here. nVidia already announced the new 7900 GTX processor (to beat what ati has conquered :)). Tehnically speaking, there is no best video card looking at how computers delevop. If today this is the best one, tommorow voila, something better appears. \nAnd if you want a link with a card based on Radeon 1900 processor, well you could try it here: