groom
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Rite after reading through a load of posts ive realised how outdated my old pc is and was wondering the cost and pain to fit of:
A decent processer 2Ghz ish
512+ RAM
A decent graphics card
A decent motheroard to support thee stuff
Flat screen
Nice mouse + keyboard
anything else i would need
[Edited on 20-11-2003 by groom]
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John_C
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http://www.ebuyer.com
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Paul_J
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quoted from another post I just made to you
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I wouldn't get a Gforce 4 Mx 64mb - no offence mate, but they're sh*t
the 'Mx' series were the budget versions
and 64 mb on a graphics card isn't brilliant anymore - I've got a Geforce GTS 2 32mb and its basically rubbish compared to today!
You want a gfx card with 128mb or preferably 256mb!
if you get a decent gfx card then your pc will fly with games.
if I had £300
I'd probably buy a Radeon 9600 128mb Pro (£122) graphics card
A K7N2 Delta ILSR athlon motherboard (£86)
and a Athlon XP2800+ (£100)
and 512mb ddr PC2100 ram (£45)
Prices may vary... £345 not a bad system...
please note this is just picking random things + you could probably get better, but not a bad budget system.
dunno about flat screen, get a microsoft optical explorer mouse and whatever keyboard.
Upgrade yourself, it's all relatively easy - just take it one step at the time.
So strip whats in your case atm, put the motherboard in and connect the power + hard drives to it, put the new CPU + heat sink/ fan on, then put in the ram and clip on the graphics card - close the case and put mouse + keyboard + screen in the back + turn on.
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Paul_J
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tbh you probably don't need that motherboard - you could get a cheaper one, providing its amd based (socket A) and can support the cpu speed + ddr ram.
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groom
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ok not vibs  
what would be the advantages of that motherboard tho
[Edited on 20-11-2003 by groom]
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groom
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ttt
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Paul_J
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err... please edit your post, I'm not vibro...
Dunno possibly more Hard drive slots or something like that...
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