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"Help! I need a new box"

OK. So Unreal Tournament 2003 is coming out in the next few months, my P3 500Mhz, 128MB, Win 98 machine will probably choke when I try to run it, so I need a new box. I don't need a monitor, just a good CPU, lots of memory, big HD, WinXP Pro and good video card.

What I want to do is use my old machine on a broadband connection, it can be my proxy / firewall, possible even host some UT games on it, and have a new machine as a workstation connected to the old machine for Internet access...

Anybody got any ideas for a solution to my problems? Can you recommend anywhere to buy a box, I know SR do boxes on their own, but I can't find 'em in the PC section, can anybody also tell me about the best place to get a broadband connection from?

Thanks people.

http://www.maxxpc.co.uk for SR's MaxxPcs they're actually pretty good machines.
I'd recommend building your own though, saves a lot of money and they're fully customisable, but only use recommended sites, if you don't buy from a site with good customer service you can loose a lot of money if something goes wrong.

OK. So Unreal Tournament 2003 is coming out in the next few months, my P3 500Mhz, 128MB, Win 98 machine will probably choke when I try to run it, so I need a new box. I don't need a monitor, just a good CPU, lots of memory, big HD, WinXP Pro and good video card.

What I want to do is use my old machine on a broadband connection, it can be my proxy / firewall, possible even host some UT games on it, and have a new machine as a workstation connected to the old machine for Internet access...

Anybody got any ideas for a solution to my problems? Can you recommend anywhere to buy a box, I know SR do boxes on their own, but I can't find 'em in the PC section, can anybody also tell me about the best place to get a broadband connection from?

Thanks people.