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vibrio
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19th Feb 05 at 13:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

prices and spec. I don't play games all it's for is connecting up to hifi (not sure about new sound card) and for image processing. price is plus VAT. using 2x512 Ram but unsure wither to go for a 1gig slice or not.

AMD (Newcastle) Athlon 64bit 3000+ 754pin 512kb L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor with Heatsink and Fan Included and 3 Year Warranty 058431 187 £82.91 £82.91
MSI K8N Neo Platinum Nforce3 250 SKT 754 SATA GIGBIT LAN 7.1 Sound Retail Box 077869 47 £64.61 £64.61
XFX Geforce Fx5200 AGP8x 128MB DDR DVI TV-Out Retail Box 054837 81 £30.00 £30.00
Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 160GB Serial ATA150 7200rpm 8mb Cache - OEM 050956 114 £47.11 £47.11
Corsair (VS1GBKIT400C3) 1024MB (2 x 512MB Matched Pair), DDR400 / PC3200, non-ECC, Unbuffered, CL3, Lifetime Warranty 054472 256 £84.15 £84.15
Aopen 52x32x52x16 Chameleon IDE Drive (combo) - Retail Box 059693 383 £19.30 £19.30
Aopen Chameleon 16x DVD R/RW Dual Layer Internal IDE Retail inc 3 colour bezels 077717 12 £38.99 £38.99
- remove item Cart Total: £367.07
James_DT
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19th Feb 05 at 13:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Stick with 2x512mb rather than 1x1024mb, aside from that, sounds coo'.
dave17
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19th Feb 05 at 14:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

might want a slightly larger HDD due to u having a 1GB stick card for your digi cam? keep filling that up everytime u use it and the 160GB will soon dissapeer....
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whats point populating two channels when you an put put a GB stick in? go GB mate.

Can vouch for 64Bit architecture my laptop pisses most applications. BUT i am interested to see how the prescott stands up againist it -/+ £
Ren
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19th Feb 05 at 17:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

some motherboards only support 1gb max. two 512s are better, cos if one breaks, you have the other as backup. if u get a 1gb stick, and that breaks, you're fooked.

 
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