I need help with a [H]ard decession

[pArTy]

I got $1400. Should I go all out on a high end computer + water cooling and - video card untel unified cards are out. Or buy a decent honda with 130k miles for about $3000? I got a car right now but at the end of summer ill have to give it up to my parents since its theres. If I get a new computer now I *might* end up with enough money at the end of summer to buy a car too. My guess is the vote will lean towards the computer.

Right now I got a AMD +1800 Althon XP with 240gigs of hard drive space and 1 gig of ram. 9800 pro all in wonder with 128mb of ram. I cant even run CSS with medium settings in direct X 8.1. I also have to turn ragdolls off because it chokes my computer.

 

[boomheadshot45]

I would put 800 $ to a computer, and save the 600 $ and keep on saving up for a car. Also, for 1400 $, you won't get a highend computer because a highend computer would be this
Conroe X6800-1,000 $
2 tb storage (4 x 500 gb)-1200
X1900 crossfire or quad sli-1200
4 x 150 gb raptors-1200
see thats already 3600, you get my point.

 

[pArTy]

Realisticaly you dont need 2TB of storage or 4 raptors. Nor do you need quad GPUs. You barely need crossfire and SLI unless you got a 30+ inch TV your hooking up to the computer :-D. I'm planning on runing 1280 by 1024 so I wont be geting crossfire or sli right away. Maybe in the future though. Also CPU prices are going to drop soon too which was another reason for this vote :-D Also if I get a computer I want it to be fairly high range PC so it will last me a while longer.

 

[LordVampyre]

gas is around 3.00 a gal. dont need no darn car however a new computer is something to cherish....

unless of course its a oh 68 mustang or something like that

 

[munkle]

I would put 800 $ to a computer, and save the 600 $ and keep on saving up for a car. Also, for 1400 $, you won't get a highend computer because a highend computer would be this
Conroe X6800-1,000 $
2 tb storage (4 x 500 gb)-1200
X1900 crossfire or quad sli-1200
4 x 150 gb raptors-1200
see thats already 3600, you get my point.

You dont do anything small do you? High end to me is $1400 because you can get a decent computer for that much and most of your average computers (oem) suck compared to a $1400 custom PC.

 

[pArTy]

You dont do anything small do you? High end to me is $1400 because you can get a decent computer for that much and most of your average computers (oem) suck compared to a $1400 custom PC.

My point. He over did it a little to much :-D
Also if I'm not geting a good video card untel next gen then $1400 would be more than enough for a highend core computer. Gas is also $3.58 a gal here. Thats one reason why i'm geting a honda. My nission gets 31 miles to a gal right now. Its a 4 cynder peace of crap that I cant keep.