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"What about this comp?"

AMD Athlon XP 2600 (2.13GHz)
ATX 300W Midi Tower (AMD/P4)
Asus A7V333 RAID Motherboard
512MB 333MHz DDR RAM
Seagate 60GB Hard Drive 7,200RPM
DVD-ROM Drive 16x Speed
CD Re-Writer 48/12/40 BURN PROOF
1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
128MB DDR GeForce4 Ti4400 AGP
Creative SndBlaster Audigy 2 Player
Network Card - 3Com 905CXTX
Windows XP home

ATM for £860.05 ex VAT


£1,010.56 inc VAT


£36.67

Thats for Atm tho dunno how prices will fall in March when its my b'day.
I can give this pc to my sis or bro.... and keep the good one with me here. Won't need a huge upgrade next time then :)

Miserableman wrote:
> Again, you're missing the point. The most important component of any
> modern desktop computer is the monitor. There's no point having a
> Geforce4 if you only have some cruddite 17" monitor to view the
> output on.
>
> You can call me a blasphemer (you can call me Geoffrey, if you like)
> but the performance gains on a Windows desktop by adding faster
> processors level off above about 800Mhz. A 2.8Ghz PC is no faster than
> a 1.4Ghz PC in real terms - one spends slightly longer doing nothing.
> I'd spend less on the speed of the PC and more on the monitor, and
> also on a stable, quiet PSU (as this one sounds like a jet engine
> )O:
>
> A 400W PSU should be sufficient, the aluminium case implies that it
> won't be a bad one. http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides/power_supply/
> is a good article about the problems associated with PSUs.

I've dropped to a 2400 AMD Athlon XP and gota 80gb HDD instead :S

I'm happy with my comp atm but i would love a powerful one for my use only :p

well adds quit a bit to the cost :p

my 17" is still v good.
maybe ill get a 2400 and get a new monitor and use this one with the one im using atm.

Again, you're missing the point. The most important component of any modern desktop computer is the monitor. There's no point having a Geforce4 if you only have some cruddite 17" monitor to view the output on.

You can call me a blasphemer (you can call me Geoffrey, if you like) but the performance gains on a Windows desktop by adding faster processors level off above about 800Mhz. A 2.8Ghz PC is no faster than a 1.4Ghz PC in real terms - one spends slightly longer doing nothing. I'd spend less on the speed of the PC and more on the monitor, and also on a stable, quiet PSU (as this one sounds like a jet engine )O:

A 400W PSU should be sufficient, the aluminium case implies that it won't be a bad one. http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides/power_supply/ is a good article about the problems associated with PSUs.

Processor
AMD Athlon XP 2600 (2.13GHz)

Case
ATX 400W Alum Midi Tower (AMD/P4)

Motherboard
Asus A7V333 RAID Motherboard

RAM
512MB 333MHz DDR RAM

Hard Drive 1
Maxtor 80GB DiamondMax Plus9

Hard Drive 2
Not Selected

CDRom 1
DVD-ROM Drive 16x Speed

CDRom 2
CD Re-Writer 48/12/40 BURN PROOF

Floppy Drive
1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive

Graphic Card
128MB DDR GeForce4 Ti4400 AGP

PCI Card 1
Creative SndBlaster Audigy 2 Player

PCI Card 2
Network Card - 3Com 905CXTX

Operating System
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

Price :
£911.75 ex VAT


£1,071.31 inc VAT


£38.88


The beauty of this is .... prices will drop and the overall price may well drop below 1000 quid.

MAXX 4D XP 2400+
costs Total Price: £1,183.99 + £25.00 = £1,208.99
With SB Audigy 2 and Ti4600 shame u cant remoeve the option of having no monitor.

Price Excluding VAT: £973

Price Including VAT + DEL: £ 1143.28

another undisclosed place costs that much....
but instead it has a ti4200 o.O
Lets see what SR can do.

If i want 400 watts it would cost 40 quid more
Price :
£900.75 ex VAT


£1,058.38 inc VAT


£38.41

300 watt psu o.O