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"Specs for next machine hopefully..."

Processor
AMD Athlon XP 2400 (2.0GHz)

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

Motherboard
Asus A7V333 RAID Motherboard

RAM
512MB 333MHz DDR RAM

Hard Drive 1
Seagate 80GB Hard Drive 7,200RPM

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

Operating System
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

Monitor
17 inch monitor VL700/17 FST .27 70kHz MPR2

£1,088.54 inc VAT
Wihtout monitor is about £980 :o I could pay loads more for a less powerful dell..

I've decided a 400W one would make it more stable...

Tho if its still good.. then what?
its either:
Abit KX7 333 Socket A Motherboard
Asus A7V333 RAID Motherboard
MSI KT3 Ultra2 Mainboard
MSI KT3 Ultra2 RAID Mainboard

Or buying from some company that dont tell u what mobo they use... okay i dont care how they perform but it would be nice.

Tyla wrote:
> Waiting for bonus now before ordering. May change the spec a little to
> more Ram, Higher Processor and a DVD-RW. Possibly a rather sexy Lian
> Li Full Tower too.


Why on earth would you want more than 1GB RAM? Processor is fast enough as it is - get a better case, with a better power supply, and better cooling. Personally, I think you guys spend too much on your rigs, you won't ever notice or use the power you fork out hundreds for :O(((

ftozzi wrote:
> thats a bit crap. a Ghz pc, they are 3.06 ghz now aday with 512 ram.
> 120gb,geforce 4,dvd recoreder, pentium 4 aswel,and u come out with a
> spec for a pc thats a bit crap


Yeah... you really know nothing about computers do you.

An EPoX 8RDA+ will do you better than any Asus at the moment. nForce 2 chipset, the 8RDA+ is as good as motherboards get at the moment, especially for the madl33t overclockers.

As for PSUs, it's the quality not quantity that matters. Stable rails are very important.

Miserableman wrote:
> Tyla wrote:
> Waiting for bonus now before ordering. May change the spec a little
> to
> more Ram, Higher Processor and a DVD-RW. Possibly a rather sexy Lian
> Li Full Tower too.
>
>
> Why on earth would you want more than 1GB RAM? Processor is fast
> enough as it is - get a better case, with a better power supply, and
> better cooling. Personally, I think you guys spend too much on your
> rigs, you won't ever notice or use the power you fork out hundreds for
> :O(((

I know but 400W makes sure it is stable cos im not sure.
It comes with a Alluminium screwless case tho.
Btw i aint that bothered about which mobo i get... as long as it has a AGP slot and all the other essentials.

Turbonutter wrote:
> An EPoX 8RDA+ will do you better than any Asus at the moment. nForce 2
> chipset, the 8RDA+ is as good as motherboards get at the moment,
> especially for the madl33t overclockers.
>
> As for PSUs, it's the quality not quantity that matters. Stable rails
> are very important.

Who would want to overclock.. o.O

What? XP2400s were born for overclocking man! You can get at LEAST 2.4ghz from them on air!

o.O

Miserableman wrote:
> Why on earth would you want more than 1GB RAM? Processor is fast
> enough as it is - get a better case, with a better power supply, and
> better cooling. Personally, I think you guys spend too much on your
> rigs, you won't ever notice or use the power you fork out hundreds for
> :O(((

Its like being in the changing rooms at school again. My ones bigger than your one :)

Bet the majority of these kids only use their pc to surf the net. I use a 400mhz PII to do all my business work on and i havent found anything that i need that doesnt run on it. If .Net runs then im sure it'll handle most stuff.