I would tend to agree with your assessment. However, many people tout the productivity enhancements of multiple monitors, so you should figure that into the equation.

>Does anyone have any recommendations to make on building your own computer? I came across an article at:
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>http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1549122,00.asp
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>on how to build your own gaming machine for under $1,000. What I would like to do is build my own machine, but I'll be using it to develop with Windows XP Professional, Visual Studio.NET, and SQL Server 2000. I am assuming that in a development machine, hard drive performance is more important than graphics performance, but is that true?