Re: Buying a poker-only computer
If you go to any office supply or electronics and spend more than a grand you will have a fine computer for just playing poker. The number of tables only matter because of PT, they aren't resource heavy by themselves.
The bottle neck playing poker is large PT databases. You want quick hard drives for that. It's doubtful you will get a desktop with slow enough hard drives to make an external drive faster. Use it for back up or purge the damn DB, you don't really need 8 months or more of hands in it.
Basic stats you are looking for-
2 gigs of ram.
5400 rpm hard drive, 7200 is better
You can take a bump down with processor speed if it will get you more ram or a bigger HD.
That's about it.
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