Brack
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Post by Brack on Sept 3, 2003 14:28:34 GMT -5
im buliding a new compand money is tight so look what I have compiled, do you think it is good?
Abit Mother board for AMD Athlon/Athlon XP
Slots 1 AGP 5 PCI
3 ram slots
CPU Supported AMD k-7 Duron/Athlon. Athlon
PROCESSOR
AMD Athlon XP 2500 + Barton 333 fsb
CPU 1.83 GHz
type XP 2500 Barton Core
Cache 512k L2 128k L1 total 640KB
BUS 333 MHz
sokect A
Heatsink and fan included
G-CARD
VGA Chaintech a-gx20 TI 4200 128MB 8X VGA DVI TV out
Chipset Nvidia Geforce TI 4200
128 Mem
HARD DRIVE
WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE 40 GB 7200 RPM
Seek time 8.9ms
cache 2MB
OPTICAL DRIVE
SamsungCDRW/DVD COMBO
speeds DVD 16x CDR 48x
Buffer 2MB
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Post by Brack on Sept 3, 2003 14:30:07 GMT -5
o and with key board mouse os and what nots it only cost $680 about! ( I have OS and mouse)
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Spizak
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Post by Spizak on Sept 3, 2003 15:32:20 GMT -5
Two things:
1) No RAM?
2) No Case?
You can sometimes get a CPU and seperate heatsink cheaper than a "box" set.
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Post by Brack on Sept 3, 2003 16:46:12 GMT -5
i have the case and ram 512 mb ddr but i did not kno that u could buy em cheaper separte thanks ill look into this  |
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Post by Brack on Sept 3, 2003 16:55:03 GMT -5
ijust noticed this I have windows 98 and the procssor says extrme preformance for WINOWS XP can i still use it for 98 just as Well?
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Post by AntiVelocity on Sept 3, 2003 20:00:22 GMT -5
Yeah, it should work, but there are no guarantees. But you should probably upgrade to XP anyways since its more reliable and 98 probably won't be supported by MS anymore within the next year (they already dropped 95; and don't quote me on this. This is just my speculation. I'm probably wrong).
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Post by Brack on Sept 3, 2003 20:07:34 GMT -5
Im gonna upgrade later when i get some extra cash$$ ;D
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Post by Terenthas on Sept 3, 2003 21:16:46 GMT -5
bah you need a better FSB, the bigger the better. its one of the most overlooked computer stats. Of course, it all depends on your budget, if it was up to me id recommend a 4 2.0 ghz intel xeon system with a ram expander and 32 gigs of ram, costing, oh say $15k from tigerdirect.com (which has really good prices, btw) |
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Post by Brack on Sept 3, 2003 22:16:17 GMT -5
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Post by WicK on Oct 8, 2003 18:42:38 GMT -5
dude u can get a P4 2.4 ghz with 800 mhz FSB on an ASUS board , with 512 megs of 400mhz DDR ram for like 375 bucks !
im DIE HARD AMD ,, but you cant beat the lower end P4's price now ,,, to get the same thing but AMD would be $775 and the FSB is onlt 500 mhz i think
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