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Anonymous recommends:
- AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (S754 or S939, I don't care, better if you can find a Socket 754 one with a mobo, as they're cheaper).
- MSI motherboard with VIA chipset and AGP bus.
- 512 MB RAM (Kingston ValueRAM is good and cheap). Might need 1 GB if you run Windows XP instead of Windows 2000 and you love system tray bullshit and Internet Explorer, but you shouldn't.
- nVidia GeForce 6600 128 MB AGP, or an ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128 MB AGP if you want to go cheaper.
- Seagate SATA HD, 80 GB will be enough.
- A single NEC ND3xxx DVD±RW drive, no read-only drive as this drive is awesome and cheap as hell so you don't mind using it to read.
- Use integrated sound and LAN, reuse existing speakers.
- Philips 17" CRT, which looks better than TFTs and costs much less. Don't fall for fads or "it looks kewl like Star Trek, lol!!!1111 U+0021 EXCLAMATION MARK !!11".
- Reuse existing mouse and keyboard unless they suck; if they suck, get an optical mouse and the simplest, less "multimedia" (=FAGGOTRY) keyboard you can find, and most of all, never go wireless as that shit sucks and it's more expensive and it's yet another thing to take care of.
OS: Windows 2000 SP4 properly tuned and configured
Security: Firewall (hardware if possible), non-resident antivirus ran on everything new, do not use MSIE, use Firefox or Opera.