I'm looking to buy a new computer in the next week. Its been too long since i kept up on hardware so I would like some peoples info. Or at least some general specs on what I will need. I have 3 requirements for the computer. 1: be able to run "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" at max settings with min of 60 fps solid. 2: Liquid Cooling to keep it quiet 3: $1500 before shipping, no monitor. Any help is welcome and thanks for reading.

"Liquid Cooling to keep it quiet" Personally, I think liquid cooling is a waste of money unless you're an extreme overclocker. As for the "quieter theory", you will still have case cooling fans, & fans on both the motherboard chipset & video card, so there will still fan noise regardless of the liquid cooled CPU. Plus there's a fan on the radiator.

At $1500 you can get a very WOW compatible computer. The only component not to intuitively get the lower value is the Video Card and RAM. Here is the WOW RECOMMENDED system requirements, at $1500 you can go past there required :). Windows® System 2000/XP OS: * Intel Pentium® IV 1.5 GHz or AMD XP 1500+ MHz * 1024 MB RAM * 64 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5700 class card or above * Broadband Internet connection * Two-button scroll-wheel mouse Mac® OS X 10.3.9 or newer: * 1024 MB RAM or higher; DDR RAM recommended * ATI or NVIDIA® video hardware with 64 MB VRAM or more * Broadband Internet connection I know that liquid cooling is a very gamers thing, and found an interesting article at http://compreviews.about.com/od/cpu... Here is the writer's bit about LC, "At this stage of the market, liquid cooling is still only really effective for those people who are interested in over clocking their computers well beyond what air cooling will allow. Due to the size and difficulty of the installations for liquid cooling, it is not advised for general system use. There are many effective heat pipe designs being developed now that will cool off the current CPUs on the market without the noise from a large number of high speed fans." But I'm not very knowledgeable in it and feel it is something I'd get burned investing in. Whichever route best of luck with that.

How about you do the leg work, post what you think might fit the bill and then we can critique your research. Would a Video card maker specify if the card will run a particular game? Let us know what you find. Bryan

The system i was thinking about was: Power Supply ( ** iBUYPOWER Recommended ** NZXT PF-500 500 Watt Power Supply ) Processor ( Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400 (2x 2.13GHz/2MB L2 Cache/1066FSB) ) Processor Cooling ( [New !!!] iBUYPOWER Liquid CPU Cooling Fan System Kit --- [for INTEL CPU] ) Motherboard ( Asus P5NSLI nForce 570-SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0 Dual PCI-E MB ) Memory ( 1024MB [512MB X2] DDR2-800 PC6400 Memory Module Corsair XMS2 Xtreme w/Heat Spreader ) Video Card ( 2x NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT 256MB w/DVI + TV Out Video ) Hard Drive ( 250 GB HARD DRIVE [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 8M Cache] ) CD/DVD Drive ( 16x DVD-ROM Drive Black ) CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive ( [** Special !!! ***] 16X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive Black ) Sound Card ( 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard ) Meter Display ( Thermal Temperature LCD Display Black ) Operation System ( MS Windows XP Media Center 2005 Edition w/ Free Upgrade Coupon for Windows Vista™ Home Premium ) Case Round Cable ( Rounded Cables for Floppy/HDD/CD/DVD/CD-RW/DVD-RW Drives ) from IBuyPower.com, I guess the liquid cooling isnt that big of a deal but i dont want it too loud, and i want it cool.

http://www.resellerratings.com/stor... Consider the fb. Also, I posted the wrong game. I didn't realize they made that expansion, the recommended settings are * OS: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer required * Processor: o 933MHz G4/G5 processor, o 1.8GHz G5/Intel or better recommended * RAM: o 512MB RAM, o 1GB DDR RAM is recommended * Video: o NVIDIA or ATI graphics processor with 32MB VRAM, o 64MB VRAM recommended

* OS: Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4); Windows XP (Service Pack 2) * Processor: Intel Pentium3 800MHz or AMD Athlon 800MHz * Memory: o 512 MB RAM, o 1GB RAM is recommended * Video: o Minimum: 32MB 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as an NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or above. o Recommended: 64MB VRAM 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability, such as an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 class card or above. * Sound: DirectX compatible sound card