Melville
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thats not an average spec dave  , go for a XP2000 chip with 512 ram, 128mb graphics with an 80gb HDD, all on a AS Rock motherboard. I've built a few of theses recently for people who just want to use office and surf the web etc for under £250 from ebuyer
EDIT - didnt see the gamers average spec 
[Edited on 16-02-2005 by Melville]
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--Dave--
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I think my view on what an average spec is a bit biased... i mainly use mine for games and Half Life 2 basically kicked the shit outta my pc 
You're right though, for normal desktop applications and/or web design an XP will be fine.
Never heard of that make of motherboard though.... 
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Melville
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its a budget MOBO, can get them for about 25 notes. Does the job for what most standard users need.
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vibrio
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i have 1.5gb and stil not fast enuf
what exactly do you use your pc for?
photo editin
raw files jus keep eatin up the memory!
I know how you feel try using a P2 400 with 768 PC100 ram and an 8gig HDD
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Dom
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Average Spec -
Prcoessor: 3000XP
Mobo - Abit or Gigabyte all the way, alot better than other shite like asus (i owe one and its fussy on my DAW/DSP cards), lanparty which is full over onboard shite you wont need.
Ram: 512mb
HD: 120Gigs
Graphics: What ever you can afford tbh (9700/800 are about 80 to 150 quid, good cards though)
Sound Card: STAY away from Audigy, its cack doesnt do whats on the box (it DOESNT do 96KHz @ 24bit). Get a cheap SbLive card, 20 quid..does whats on the box.
Then the rest go for what you can afford mate 
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vibrio
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you could get away with
AMD 2.6 XP
512 PC 2700 RAM
120 GB HDD
128 graphics
on board sound
CD-RW/DVD combo
DVD RW+/-
mouse
keyboard
moniter 17inch CRT
case PSU
speakers
probaly be around £600 without OS
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Dom
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do a search on ebay, i got a 3000xp machine about a year ago for 300 quid, which was amazingly cheap - considering the 3000xp was about 150 quid, mobo about 60 + other bits...prolly saved a good 200 quid
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--Dave--
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Originally posted by Dom
Average Spec -
Prcoessor: 3000XP
Mobo - Abit or Gigabyte all the way, alot better than other shite like asus (i owe one and its fussy on my DAW/DSP cards), lanparty which is full over onboard shite you wont need.
Ram: 512mb
HD: 120Gigs
Graphics: What ever you can afford tbh (9700/800 are about 80 to 150 quid, good cards though)
Sound Card: STAY away from Audigy, its cack doesnt do whats on the box (it DOESNT do 96KHz @ 24bit). Get a cheap SbLive card, 20 quid..does whats on the box.
Then the rest go for what you can afford mate
agree with everything apart from the Asus being shit bit. The A8V Rev2.0 Deluxe is an incredibly stable board and running my 3500 @ 2.6 Ghz.
I think you'll find that many overclocking enthusiasts have chosen this board too. Hardly anyone has had a bad word to say about it.
I'm also running an XP 2500+ @ 2.2 Ghz on the Abit NF7-S and it is also a very good board. Had a Gigabyte 7DXR+ before and wasn't too impressed to be honest.
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