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RacingRob

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Well Budget is $600 Heres what I've come up with:

Microsoft Windows XP Home With SP2 - OEM

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BPBOX - Retail

BUFFALO Select 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model DD 4002-512 - Retail

SAPPHIRE 100144 Radeon X1600PRO 256MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card - OEM

MSI K8N Neo4-F Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

HITACHI Deskstar 7K80 HDS728040PLAT20 (0A30209) 40GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM

And A Case that comes with a 450 Power supply. $50.00

Should I expect to be able to asseble this when the parts come in. I have 2 other computers that I can get a CDR from and misc cables.

That puts me at about $600 delivered to my door. Obviosly I want the fastest computer for the money. I may be able to save some money by slightly downgrading some of the items - like the video card. I'm used to a 64MB card... And I want a good one - well good for the money... If theres a good one for $60... Thats fine... I only play NASCAR SimRacing...the only high graphics I need...

I currently have a COMPAQ P SR1218NX

Do you think this computer will be a bit faster than my current COMPAQ? If not I guess it's not worth the build. I guess that's the big question... Will it be faster...??

Any help would be great as the money came through and the wife gave me the thumbs up.

I appreciate it...

Rob..
 
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Yes you will be able to run that as soon as its built, providing you have a monitor of course :P oh and a keyboard.

Seems decent for the price also, you could maybe save a few dollars here and there but for what its worth I would just buy it and build it.
 
Try going for a gig of RAM, it will definately boost performance all round-
Try going for a slightly bigger drive, and make sure its SATA, as things will load and run faster- and it doesn't cost anymore!

Otherwise- seems good allround-

Have fun Gaming-

Mankz
 
I'll look into a different hard drive. I'm a major web developer also and I find myself searching for files most of the day (fun). I'll research SATA. Also I'll go with the 1 GB of RAM. I can't wait!
 
I'm also trying to find a way that I could just get the operating system from this computer to the new one. This computer was purchased as a "lease" from rent a center so it did not come with a windows CD. I do however have an older windows xp cd that came with a bunch of parts I bought.

Do you think I could install that windows XP from the old CD and then just put in my current Windows XP serial number (reg number)?

That would save $100.00!!
 
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