buying

OK looking for some fairly specific advice, some of which was touched on in other threads - ie no offense but while I appreciate it I don't really need "buy the best you can afford" or "dude, Brand X is way better" stuff. :) I guess what I'm really trying to get a better handle on is first...

I happened to think about this while watching the CSN cable channel late last night, listening to the snalke oil slaesman try to hawk coins. It was quite entrancing listening to the guys gift of gab. Isn't it ironic or (what's the better word?) that people would buy money...with money? Isn't...

I'm thinking about buying a 9800pro graphics card. But my motherboard only supports 4X AGP. Is that a problem? I currently have a ti4200 graphics card (64mb version). I have an XP1800 and 768mb of RAM. So will I have any noticeable difference if I went up to an 9800 pro?? Also do these...

I'm thinking of either replacing my current PC with something better, and using the old one to play around with linux etc on, or buying a new, crappy one to play around with Linux on, or buying a new one that I can boot to either windows or Linux on, and selling my old one. Budget: absolute max...

I heard on a radio show a man say that if he was an elector, meaning a member of the electoral college, and he was affiliated with Party A and set to vote for Candidate A, if someone came and bribed him with a million dollars, he could take the money, change his vote to Candidate B, and it would...

I'm buying a new DVD/CD ROM, possibly a burner (I don't have one at the moment, luddite that I am) and was wondering which companies make the best ones. My current one is Samsung, and I suspect it's crap. Any ideas? I only want it for playing video games and for recording stuff like MadTracker...