AcetheGamer

can anyone pls explain which of these two suits best for todays applications and games...?

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-> Asus K8V-VM single channel mobo/ECS p4VMM2
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-> 2GB DDR400 ram/512mb DDR333
-> Samsung SP0822N 80GB 7,200rpm IDE/Seagate 40GB IDE
-> LG CD-RW/DVD-ROM_Lite-on CD-RW/Sony 52x cdrom
-> HEC Raptor 500w PSU/stock
-> Creative Labs SBS 370 2.1 speaker/generic speakers
-> Realtek HD Audio/onboard
-> Samsung 739MG 17"inches crt/Samsung 15"inches crt

Kornowski

Out of those two... definitely AGP!

But even better is PCI-e if you have one.

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Martingale00

AGP over PCI. PCI-Express is pretty much becoming the standard now though. If you have a PCI-E slot on your motherboard that's the way to go.

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[-0MEGA-]

There are basically 3 types of busses used for video cards today; PCI, AGP, and PCI-E (there are others, but not used much).

PCI is the slowest of the three, has the lowest bandwidth, all the PCI ports share bandwidth, and they dont have many modern/high performing PCI cards out.

AGP is much faster then PCI-E, but is becoming obsolete with PCI-E video cards. However you can find high end and modern cards for the AGP bus, such as the 7800GS and x1950PRO.

PCI-E is the fastest, with double the bandwidth of AGP 8x and has the newest video cards, and DirectX10 cards as well.


If you are building a new system, deffinitely go with PCI-E.

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AcetheGamer

tnx...im considering buying a pci-e but i doubt whether it would be an nvidia or ati...which do you guys think is the best??

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-> AMD Sempron 64 3000+ socket 754 1.8ghz/Celeron D 2.4 ghz
-> Asus K8V-VM single channel mobo/ECS p4VMM2
-> Inno3d 7600GST DDR3 128-bit/ATI Radeon 9250
-> 2GB DDR400 ram/512mb DDR333
-> Samsung SP0822N 80GB 7,200rpm IDE/Seagate 40GB IDE
-> LG CD-RW/DVD-ROM_Lite-on CD-RW/Sony 52x cdrom
-> HEC Raptor 500w PSU/stock
-> Creative Labs SBS 370 2.1 speaker/generic speakers
-> Realtek HD Audio/onboard
-> Samsung 739MG 17"inches crt/Samsung 15"inches crt

[-0MEGA-]

Right now nVidia is the best with their 8xxx series, but ATI will soon be coming out with cards that should outperform nVidia.

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Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0GHz // Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz
Asus Rampage Formula X48 // Intel PM45
ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 // 512MB GDDR3 9800M GTS
4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 940 // 4GB DDR3 800
750GB SATAII w/32MB // 200GB SATAII 7200RPM
Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty
SilverStone 750W +12V@60A
3DMark06: 21391 // 9179

AcetheGamer

guys...hw many hard drives can a standard mobo hold?

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-> AMD Sempron 64 3000+ socket 754 1.8ghz/Celeron D 2.4 ghz
-> Asus K8V-VM single channel mobo/ECS p4VMM2
-> Inno3d 7600GST DDR3 128-bit/ATI Radeon 9250
-> 2GB DDR400 ram/512mb DDR333
-> Samsung SP0822N 80GB 7,200rpm IDE/Seagate 40GB IDE
-> LG CD-RW/DVD-ROM_Lite-on CD-RW/Sony 52x cdrom
-> HEC Raptor 500w PSU/stock
-> Creative Labs SBS 370 2.1 speaker/generic speakers
-> Realtek HD Audio/onboard
-> Samsung 739MG 17"inches crt/Samsung 15"inches crt

AcetheGamer

and can anyone tell me about celeron processors....the goodies and the cons..

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-> AMD Sempron 64 3000+ socket 754 1.8ghz/Celeron D 2.4 ghz
-> Asus K8V-VM single channel mobo/ECS p4VMM2
-> Inno3d 7600GST DDR3 128-bit/ATI Radeon 9250
-> 2GB DDR400 ram/512mb DDR333
-> Samsung SP0822N 80GB 7,200rpm IDE/Seagate 40GB IDE
-> LG CD-RW/DVD-ROM_Lite-on CD-RW/Sony 52x cdrom
-> HEC Raptor 500w PSU/stock
-> Creative Labs SBS 370 2.1 speaker/generic speakers
-> Realtek HD Audio/onboard
-> Samsung 739MG 17"inches crt/Samsung 15"inches crt

daisymtc

It is not a problem of buying a PCI-E card. But you should double check if your MB support it.

Schonza

Celerons are pretty much your budget processors, for those who need something for like, document processing, internet surfing etc etc. Low end processors.

If you are planning on building a new system, try to lean towards a Core 2 Duo processor if you plan on gaming. They are fantastic.

Depends on the mobo. Most hold about 4-8 through Serial ATA drives nowadays, and they only have 1 IDE channel for your optical drives mainly.

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