There is talk about using old-spec'd PC's and having WoW run fine in most areas. This is true (in most areas), as long as you have 1G+ RAM, but start 40-man raiding in high level instances, and watch your framerate DROP... hehe :)

Does it really make the world a better place when everybody is constantly taking the pis out of everyone else just so they can feel better? Give people like lolgubble a break. Any opinion that experiencing the real world makes you any better of a person is completely wrong. The way one person finds entertainment is different than the way another person finds entertainment. Some people find entertainment playing sport. Other people find entertainment experiencing the artistic works that real-world people create. It is only when any kind of entertainment comes at the expense of the real world that there is a problem with that kind of entertainment. There is no problem with enjoying computers and gaming if you don't make it your entire life. However, if you are able to earn a decent living while gaming, and still enjoy real-world relationships, there is no problem. As I said, it's just an *opinion*. Enjoying the real world over the virtual worlds created by real, talented, artistic people, is just an *opinion* of what is enjoyable.

jeffrey123, In response to your question, the size or type of monitor you're using does not make any performance difference whatsoever. A monitor simply displays the information given it. It is an output device, not a data-processing device. Having said that, the type and size of monitor you have will determine what range of resolutions you can output into your monitor, and the resolution you choose to display into your monitor will have an effect on the performance of your graphics processing capability. So if you play at a resolution of 800x600, it should (but not necessarily) be faster than 1024x768, which should be faster than 1280x1024, etc, etc... But playing the same resolution on a different monitor will have no impact on performance, regardless on physical size or type of monitor. So running 1280x1024 on a 19inch monitor will have the same performance as 1280x1024 on a 17in monitor. However the 19in monitor will (not necessarily, and depending on opinion) look better because everything is bigger at the same resolution, thus easier to see the finer details of the graphical quality. You may already know all this, but I thought I'd clarify just in case you had any misconceptions. Now on the subject of lolgubble, it is true that this character is a nub, primarily because he/she thinks he has a top end computer when the specs he labels fall far short of the best gear out there. Also, a dual core CPU does not ever mean that you can multiply the clock speed by two to determine total clock speed. 1900MHz on two CPU cores, does NOT mean you are running a 3.8GHz CPU. It means you can run two processes simultaneously, each at a speed of 1.9GHz. Besides the fact that, the clock speeds we are using today make very little difference in overall system performance. Our CPU speeds today are so much faster than the other components such as FSB, cache, RAM and hard-drives, that these are actually the larger performance bottlenecks in our PC's. And, it is possible to make a 2.4GHz CPU that runs as fast as a 3.5GHz CPU (compare AMD to Intel for instance, and you'll see AMD regularly squeeze more performance than Intel in their CPU's, using a slower clock rate). A few hundred MHz difference in CPU speed (on a same architecture chip), equates to maybe a few percent performance difference in most cases, whereas doubling your RAM or FSB speed (or RAM or cache size), can have 30-40 percent performance increase. Likewise, halving the cache size on a CPU (to create a "budget" chip) will often mean almost halving the CPU performance, even though the clock speed is exactly the same. Lolgubble doesn't seem to understand this. Having said that, his computer is actually pretty good, and he should be allowed to feel okay in being proud of his relatively new computer, since not every dull-brain out there wants to spend double or triple the money to obtain 10-20% performance increase. And as he says, he could play most games at top settings. However his graphics card is now a little out-dated for the latest GPU intensive games such as F.E.A.R. Hope that helps.