[Cry Me A River]

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main: You're overdoing it. Suggestions:
Processor: 2.4ghz, 2.2 is perfectly fine
RAM: 2gb is fine, but I would go for 3gb
Hard Drive: Go for a 7200rpm drive. This is absolutely necessary. (Also lots of gb for pron.)
Video Card: If you upgrade from the standard one, only go one up. Upgrading this isn't really necessary for poker.


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If all you're doing is using it for poker, then just go into your local retailer and spend $500. That's what I did more than a year and a half ago. Then I just upgraded the RAM to 1gig and bought a nice video card. The video card turned out to be overkill because I never did go to two monitors.

$500 system today >>> $500 system a year and a half ago

My system is fine for 24 tabling at Stars and I've never had lag problems at FTP. However, as far as I know the lag problems at FTP had nothing to do with system specs and nobody was ever able to really pin down why some people had problems and other people didn't. Presumably some obscure system configuration issue.

If you wanna run Crysis at max video quality, then it's like buying a TV or a stereo. Buy the best you can afford...