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Umm

Does anyone know of really really exellent performance video cards what is a price between $100 and $400 and that are Nvidia or even better then nvidia :)

Also what is the largest harddrive you can get and the price of it :?:

last one witch is the most amount of RAM you can get :?:
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That's a big price range. Everything from crap to superb are between that. Only the high-end products are above that price. Best bang for buck? Maybe GF 7900GT or X1900 XT. Open for debate.

500GB I think is the biggest single hard-drive available at the moment.

I believe the biggest DDR or DDR2 modules availabe are 2GB. What you actually can install depends on your motherboard. (For server use 4GB modules are available but they cost a REAL lot).
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Definitely go for the 7900GT.
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Ah okay well i do have $800 so i was thinkin of getting the largest harddrive and the most best Video card out in 2006 but yeah :) well just tell me exactly what is the newest video card out and what is its price lol im willing to get extra money off my girlfriend if i have to :wink: or my dad he does anythin for me since im the last born hehe

also well i kinda changed my motherboard so i dunno but 2GB is great i just have to make note of what i want and the the maths witch i hate but oh well
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Exaclty what pieces of hardware are you after, because it'll matter greatly on what you both can afford and how many pieces of hardware you're getting.

If it's just the video card and Harddrive, you'll be able to get mid-high range equipment, however, if you're after almost the full shebang (motherboard, RAM, video card, harddrive, and/or others) you'll have to sacrifice. check out online stores like (these are perth based aswell) trinix, techbuy, and nintek. Google for them as I'm writing this I'll be heading off to the realm of z's.
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like i said i replaced the motherboard not that long ago so all im after now is

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Why do you need such a large harddrive?

And post the current specs of your PC.
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My family uses my computer sumtimes and i dont have the time to erase what they have on it also ive got really good computer games and like my harddrive witch im useing now is like nearly full the only game i can put on it is most wanted thats all coz of all my family stuff so i wud ratha just get a huge a** harddrive
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Well the largest hard drive you can buy is a 2TB one, which is 2,000GB. Those run about $1600, and are only made external. And the largest internal is 750GB running at about $400.
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They must have some serious applications in use then. I can't think of anything other then serious DV editing (or a really huge video collection) that would actually require anything bigger then 200GB (unless you have hundreds of games installed).

I wouldn't get actual 2GB ram modules since their relative price is quite high. Get two 1GB modules instead. Better in another sense too, you can use dual channel configuration with two separate modules; that is both modules are accessed at the same time (provided you motherboard supports it, if it's new it propably does).
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Post by speed_and_do_the_deed »

yeah i kinda buy a game every 3 weeks lol

also i have a modded xbox witch i muck around with on the computer

and what my 2 sisters use is kinda like what u said video editing they edit music videos and DVDs

also we store digital camera photos and edit them and like edited music we kinda edit everythin till we like it :wink:

oh and thanks weedman173 for telling me the harddrive also vellu for the Ram idea or thoughts its actually got me thinking now :)
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