Experts here, i need a new PC, budget: 1300 $

[Renegade 13]

I'd stay away from LCD and go CRT. After all, you'll get something a 21" CRT for the price of a 17" LCD. To me, that matters more than some indistinguishable inprovement in color quality.

[Captain Kwok]

There's also reductions to glare/eye strain as well with LCDs.

[Atrocities]

I will sell you my P75 for $1,199.00 if your interested. It comes equiped with a blazing fast 850 meg hard drive, 4 mg matrox video card, and a whopping 8 megs of ram. This baby is so hot that it can play Doom and Dark Forces lickidy split. It comes with a 14" 200 pound monitor, an ACER key board and mouse, and two desk top speakers. This is one damn fine machine and is a real bargin for the price being asked.

[Ragnarok-X]

Atrocities said:
I will sell you my P75 for $1,199.00 if your interested. It comes equiped with a blazing fast 850 meg hard drive, 4 mg matrox video card, and a whopping 8 megs of ram. This baby is so hot that it can play Doom and Dark Forces lickidy split. It comes with a 14" 200 pound monitor, an ACER key board and mouse, and two desk top speakers. This is one damn fine machine and is a real bargin for the price being asked.

I have seen better jokes from you, AC

thanks so far

Fyron: When i stated "serious" sound, i meant serious sound compared to the onboard sound i had for the last 8 years
ty though

[Xrati]

Try www.KREX.COM they have reasonable prices and they deliver. I just purchased a desktop P4 3GigHz 2Gig RAM, ~$780) from them and it comes with everything you need (Onboard Video, DVD recorder) to get started. You can always upgrade at a later time with some of the other options, and use your current installation disk for the OS(-$90). Try Yahoo shopping for a monitor. I picked up a 21" Viewsonic LCD for $535 so for a total cost of $1315. I picked it up as I live in the area. Shipping will be extra. Check it out, you have nothing to lose.

[NullAshton]

It's not just color, LCDs at it's natural resolution has perfect geometry. Plus that LCD screen uses a digital connection instead of an analog connection, so that means better picture quality, and that you never have to adjust the geometry. I think.

Great quality without having to adjust any settings except contrast and geometry.

[Phoenix-D]

Also a fixed resolution- if you need to go outside the native resolution the quality drops. If the new resolution isn't a multiple of the old, it drops even farther.

[Urendi Maleldil]

You have just enough money to get a 17" iMac.

If you want to play games, you'll have to spring for your own copy of Windows (unless you have a spare Windows CD laying around), but the iMac has almost everything you're looking for.

[Renegade 13]

Personally, I'd go with the 7900GT Ragnarok-X. I've never had any difficulties whatsoever with Nvidia cards (I've had my current card, a 6600GT, for a year now with no problems at all), and from what I've read, Nvidia cards are slightly better than ATI when it comes to driver difficulties and compatability.

[Fyron]

And how much does a LCD that runs natively at 1600x1200 cost? $800? $1000? No thanks! Kids, just say no to LCD!