What operating system to use with a new rig?

[naz]

Originally Posted by Les

I did get the impression though your potential computer builder was referring to the on-board graphics of the new Intel Sandy Bridge CPU's. If so, they might be better than the on-board graphics you can get built into motherboards, but yes, you'd still want a dedicated graphics/video card if putting together a decent gaming system. The thing is, you might still end up getting one of those new Sandy Bridge CPU's (as they are pretty good), but only using it as a CPU, and not using it's in-built graphics processing ability.

Well, there you go...I must admit the video capability of the Sandy Bridge CPU had not crossed my mind. Just shows how out of touch with the new hardware one can get when only looking at it all every few years for upgrades ...perhaps I owe your guy an apology timholt!

As Les said though, you'd most likely still want a dedicated video card. You got some reading ahead of you old boy