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"Yay! Upgrading time!"

Okey.

Running currently:

P3 450
384 MB Ram
Matrox G400
Some crappy motherboard that's crap.

I want:

P4 something.
Lots of Ram
Really decent graphics card
Decent motherboard.

I have limited money.

Any ideas on what I should go for? Any recommendations on motherboards, graphics cards?

A mobo isnt the most significant component tho it is the most needed......the processor, RAM, etc determines how fast it goes..... really.

Jeez, how am I supposed to cope with speed decreases when I switch to a Pentium 4 this Xmas? The Shuttle XPC (which I'm getting) only accepts P4s, but if I can't get at least the same speed as my Athlon (1.4Ghz), then I'll be dispappointed. I do a lot of 3d work, so that'll be a problem.

I know a good website, but SR won't let me post the URL because it'd be advertising a rival.

I got:

XP2000+ (plus heatsink and fan)
256 DDR Ram
KS75A motherboard
60GB 7200rpm IBM HDD
Floppy Drive
Radeon 9000 128MB Graphics
Panasonic DVD drive
Case, fan and power supply
4 port PCI USB hub

All for £375 delivered.

I reckon I did quite well and UT2003 runs like a dream. Excellent.

You'll have a crap motherboard with poor memory throughput. Also, P4s are known for small on-die cache, although I'm not sure how this will affect DVI performance.

DeltaJava wrote:
> What speed is your P4, Mr. Happy?

2Ghz

For video editing on Adobe Premiere it's slower than my 750Mhz Athlon with 512MB RAM.

Which sucks really. I've not noticed a change.

But PC World sold it to be for £300 less than it was meant to be (fools). All the other computers in the offer had celerons and were pretty poo, this one had a P4 and was pretty cool. RRP = £800-ish (and that's taken off the PC world website!), PC World oh balls we've baggered our pricing up price = £499.99

I'm going to buy laptop next year for when I'm a student

Sell PC for parts or too some mug

SHEEPY wrote:
> I hate RAM and my computer
>
> You don't want my help you're computer will break and you'll cut your
> hand

I cut my fingers *all* the time. I swear YS-TECH embed razor blades into their fans.

Anyway.

You really will be a ph00l buying a P4, it'll set you back *loads*, and whatever you spend on a P4 I can *gaurantee* an Athlon system sill just blw it out of the water by a stupid amount. The only reason for getting P4s is to get *the fastest* CPUs available, and that'll change within a few months anyway.

How much are you looking to spend? I recommend anywhere between £400 and £800 for "really good" to "bloody amazing".

What speed is your P4, Mr. Happy?

P4 sucks, mine is actually slower than my old PC which had a P3 with more RAM.

Well for video editing anyway.

Get as much Ram as possible is my advice.