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taffyjenks

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I have just been quoted £250 for the below spec computer tower and as I do not understand what any of it means I need someone computer literate to give me some advice'

AMD Athlon 64 X2 7550 Bundle including AMD Athlon 64 X2 7550 AMD Processor, Asrock AM2+ N68C-S UCC mATX Motherboard and Heatsink and Fan
Crucial 2GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL6
Seagate 500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6Gb/s Barracuda Hard Drive 7200RPM 16MB Cache
LiteOn iHAS224 24x DVD±RW DL RAM & Lightscribe SATA Optical Drive - OEM Black

I use my computer to store photographs,listen to music and surf the web,Ebay etc.Need someone to explain in plain English.

Thank You

Tony Jenkins
 
taffyjenks said:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 7550 Bundle including AMD Athlon 64 X2 7550 AMD Processor,
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This is your processor... CPU... Main part that runs the computer. There are 2 major brands... AMD and Intel.

taffyjenks said:
Asrock AM2+ N68C-S UCC mATX Motherboard and Heatsink and Fan
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This is your motherboard.. It is what your CPU and other components plug into. AM2+ is your socket type, or what type of CPU will fit your board.

taffyjenks said:
Crucial 2GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL6
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This is your ram. Ram stores temporary information. 2gb is the amount. Standard now is 4-8gb

taffyjenks said:
Seagate 500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6Gb/s Barracuda Hard Drive 7200RPM 16MB Cache
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This is your hard drive. You store your pictures, music, games, documents and such on it. 500gb is the size of it.

taffyjenks said:
LiteOn iHAS224 24x DVD±RW DL RAM & Lightscribe SATA Optical Drive - OEM Black
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This is your cd/DVD drive. This drive will be able to burn CD's or DVDs


There is alot of upgrades that I would recommend, but to be honest, just for surfing the net and storing pictures, it should be fine.

Is there a certain amount you are willing to spend for a better computer?
 
fire r a g e said:
SATA III is not needed on a Hard Drive.
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Poor statement in my opinion.

The problem you have now is the flood and prices. Prices are all over the place. Same drive on tiger and newegg costs 74.99 and 84.99, tiger saves you $10. 250gb western digital sata 3 drive. I just bought this drive for a client which only has a sata 2 board and its pretty fast.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136771

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=160418&CatId=2458
 
taffyjenks said:
I have just been quoted £250 for the below spec computer tower and as I do not understand what any of it means I need someone computer literate to give me some advice'

AMD Athlon 64 X2 7550 Bundle including AMD Athlon 64 X2 7550 AMD Processor, Asrock AM2+ N68C-S UCC mATX Motherboard and Heatsink and Fan
Crucial 2GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL6
Seagate 500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6Gb/s Barracuda Hard Drive 7200RPM 16MB Cache
LiteOn iHAS224 24x DVD±RW DL RAM & Lightscribe SATA Optical Drive - OEM Black

I use my computer to store photographs,listen to music and surf the web,Ebay etc.Need someone to explain in plain English.

Thank You

Tony Jenkins
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Hiya mate, i wouldnt pay £250 for that. My friend has just bought a much better spec pc off gumtree for the same price.

I dont know how close you are to manchester but there are some cracking deals on there lately.

It may be wise to have a look at your closest gumtree area to see what sort of pc you could get.
 
johnb35 said:
Poor statement in my opinion.

The problem you have now is the flood and prices. Prices are all over the place. Same drive on tiger and newegg costs 74.99 and 84.99, tiger saves you $10. 250gb western digital sata 3 drive. I just bought this drive for a client which only has a sata 2 board and its pretty fast.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136771

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=160418&CatId=2458
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How is it a poor statement? HDDs can't utilize all of the bandwidth anyways, so getting it is just wasting $.
 
I have one doubt, That how much of hard disk that we use that much of ram we want to put its correct or not....Example if 160 hard disk have means for that we need 2GB RAM is correct or not,,,,If you low or high RAM what will happen can you explain?
 
wjames811 said:
I have one doubt, That how much of hard disk that we use that much of ram we want to put its correct or not....Example if 160 hard disk have means for that we need 2GB RAM is correct or not,,,,If you low or high RAM what will happen can you explain?
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You can run a 1TB drive on 512mb of RAM. They don't correlate. It will run slow, of course, but 2gb is enough for windows 7.
 
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