Re: Building a poker computer
for the video card get a Nvidia GeForce FX 5500. It has 2 VGA ports so even if you are only using one port you have the option of using two moniters. I have a 2001fp on one port and a Sony HS95 19" on the other. I can 4 table and surf the net all at once. Once I win some more money then I will upgrade to another 2001fp. With this card you can get about anything else and it will work. this card is my personal choice, others may not like my choice but that is your opinion.
1DDR of ram is preferable. Hard drives of any size works since poker software won't take up a lot of room on the hard drive.
Poker computers don't have to very expensive. But they can be. One 17" CRT monitor (around 75 bucks), a decent video card (the one I mentioned was 119 bucks) and reasonable priced motherboard (couple hundred). Hard drives aren't that expensive. You can buy OEM operating system off of ebay for less than 100 bucks (for XP).
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