What TheFIxer said ;)

oh and pelase ntoe:
if you are seriously into art, do NOT run your games onthe same PC!!!
many games come with *%$!@ "so-called Digital Rights Management", in fact, some of it's out right malware. You get noticebale system slow down with that garbage, grr. 

PO's  me off no end that I buy games legit (hey, fair prices for great enjoyment, so no issue there...but console prices are a rip off)..and then you get hellish malwar,e rootkits etc that absolutely does NOT stop pirates one little bit, but messes me up :(
Pretty damn sure it was a miz of such garbage and the fact Maxtor drives suck, that cost me 3 drives and lots of lost stuff in only a few months interval, IIRC that's when I lost the original files of my "Wyvern's Twilight" pic and that really got me mad!!!!

so, ahem, rant mode off ;)
Kepe art and game PCs, seperate, Share monitor/keyboard etc if wish but keep 'em seperate
PCs are massivley overpowered for games now, hehe, so doens't cost much to have an amazing game rig. PC grpahic cards are liek 3 to 5 years ahead of games in term sof horespower, so a 9800nvidia is plenty powerful, never mind the newer ones!

Art rigthough, you want quad cores, 6+gigs of RAM etc.
games rigs are fine with 4 gigs (with WIn7 64 bit)
:)

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