Going overboard building my new PC?

[lx5091]

rice hunter:
the only thing that COULD be a problem with using a tv as a monitor is the refresh rate of the TV, if it doesn't refresh fast enough it could cause a headache to look at for an extended period of time....but if that was the case you wouldn't be doing it! Some TV's though, just wouldn't work because of there refresh rate.

mustangman:
I use athlon XP's alot when building PC's because of the price....much cheaper and perform well. But for my personal PC's I use P4's because they just seem to process threads better. I couldn't explain it, I'm not a CPU engineer, but I find that when benchmarking similar xp and P4's that the XP chip will run some programs faster....but for overall use of your PC and mainly the functions of the operating system seem to gel better with the Pentium class chip.

all:
What most people don't realize is if they think their PC is outdated and want a new one....99% of the time their case and drives are pretty new and all you need is a motherboard, CPU and memory which could cost as little as $300 for a 2GHZ Athlon system! Instead they go to circuit city and spend $1000-$1500 on a whole new system.