Rob B
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Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Prescott 1MB Cache Processor
Sapphire Radeon X800PRO 256MB Graphics Card
Western Digital 200GB Serial ATA150 7200rpm 8mb Cache Hard Drive
Corsair 1024MB (2x512MB Matched Pair) DDR400 Memory
Samsung 16x Dual Layer Black DVD-RW
Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000PRO-G Motherboard - 5.1 Surround Sound, Firewire, USB, GigabitLAN
17" TFT Monitor
Creative lab 5.1 speakers
Microsoft Internet Keyboard - PS/2 Black
Black Floppy Drive
Raidmax Black Cobra Case
what you think to this spec mainly want the pc for games but want it to run quick too ! Cheers Rob
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Cybermonkey
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I would have a seperate CD-RW drive with ultra speed read, DVD-RW's have large read m/s times, spin up/down etc etc, other than that, sounds like a monster. Might wanna go for 2 g's of ram.
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vibrio
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I would get a 1 gb ram rather than 2 512's I'd also get a AMD 64 rather than intel
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Rob B
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could get an AMD would be a bit cheaper 2
[Edited on 02-12-2004 by corsa_rob]
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Cybermonkey
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agree with vibrio, Athlon 64's are faster than the prescotts. Also, think about the Nvidia Geforce 6800Ultra, its a faster video card for the system, also what PSU are you getting?
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vibrio
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make sure you got cooling as well
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Neshol
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Er he needs 2 512's to run the memory at dual channel
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Tim
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quote:
Originally posted by vibrio
I would get a 1 gb ram rather than 2 512's
Justification?
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Tim
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quote:
Originally posted by Neshol
Er he needs 2 512's to run the memory at dual channel
Beat me to it 
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Neshol
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vibrio
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quote:
Originally posted by Tim
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Originally posted by vibrio
I would get a 1 gb ram rather than 2 512's
Justification?
cheaper to upgrade to 2gb later 
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by vibrio
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Originally posted by Tim
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Originally posted by vibrio
I would get a 1 gb ram rather than 2 512's
Justification?
cheaper to upgrade to 2gb later
If one chip goes fecked then you could run it with 512 RAM for the time being
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vibrio
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quote:
Originally posted by Peugeot Nut
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Originally posted by vibrio
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Originally posted by Tim
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Originally posted by vibrio
I would get a 1 gb ram rather than 2 512's
Justification?
cheaper to upgrade to 2gb later
If one chip goes fecked then you could run it with 512 RAM for the time being
I'd buy 2gb to start with anyway
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Tim
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Yeah that's a point -- motherboard spec'd only has 2 DDR slots 
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PaulW
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im happy withthe 1gb in mine so far...
2gb is still a bit overkill unless your using serious memory crunching apps such as photoshop...
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vibrio
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I'd buy 2 gig. why bother with top notch stuff but skimp on RAM
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Neil
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I have 2 gig DDR ram
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Rob B
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i am on a bit of a tight budget, surely this spec will be more than capable of running hl2 ?
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Neil
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It would do yes.. since Half Life 2 is made so it runs ok on lesser computers too.. so it'll run very nicely on above spec.
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Rob B
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i thought it was a really really good spec
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Steve
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im chopping in my 240gbs of IDE hard disks for this beast
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/westerndigital_sata.html
top one
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Neil
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I just got me a 250gig SATA Maxtor hdd  Still gonna use my 2 IDE hard drives too (120gig). 
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Steve
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yes but your maxtor aint 10,000 rpm i will keep one of my ide's which is 120gb just for data music n stuff
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Neil
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no, but it has 176gig more and is still 7,200 rpm.. also have 16mb cache and 1.5gb/s transfer, so am sure i'll get over not having 10,000 rpm
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drunkenfool
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if you got broadband too then might think about getting another HDD too, although i guess you could do that when you run out of space! Looks likes its gonna be a beast tho
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