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I have been thinking about building a box just for GW and Ventrilo but I am not really sure where to start.

My current Microcrap Dell barely gets me 20-30fps under minimal settings with loads of lag in my average ping times. Ideally, I'd like to be able to host my vent server with the option of leaving GW running 24/7 with medium to max quality settings. I'd be happy with 60+fps and an avg ping that keeps my ping meter green.

I have a feeling my current system with its bloated registry and other issues is to blame for much of my lag, video, and rubberbanding issues. Instead of dealing with that antique...

Could someone suggest a reasonably low cost solution that will make my GW experience more visually enjoyable (ie higher settings that dont produce errors or glitches) and a smooth network interface. Please include every part necessary, linux build, and whatever other software I will need to get GW running smoothly at med/high to max settings (assume I can buy ea. individually at a local pc shop or online). Possible cost? How cheap can I build this considering GW, vent, and some sort of internet browser will be the only things ever run on this box.

Thank you in advance...

As far as running GW 24/7, it can't be done, you get kicked at 24hours if not before.

GW doesn't need a particularly high level of computer hardware, I can play it maxed out at very high resolutions on Linux with an Athlon 64bit 3500+ cpu / 2Gb RAM & an nVidia 7950GT/512Mb AGP graphic card.

I would recommend aiming your hardware build at GW2 which will probably be released in about a years time. According to the dev's it will also not require high end hardware, though it will require a higher minimum level than GW does now.

I think that an 8*** series nVidia card with plenty of graphics RAM in combination with a single core cpu (they are better for games than multi-core cpu's) & at least 1Gb of RAM will give you plenty of head room for both GW & GW2.

nVidia have been offering much better support for Linux drivers, but since AMD bought ATi, they have been improving the Linux drivers, I don't think that they are as good as the nVidia drivers yet, but I'm sure that they will be.

Personally I would buy nVidia.

Before you make a choice, I'd recommend joining the ubuntuforums.org & researching there, if you can't find the info' that you need by searching, post the question; due to the huge membership you will get answers based on people's personal experience which is much better than marketroid hype, apart from the fact that most sales people haven't got a clue about Linux anyway.