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Go with...

 

 

 

- A64 3500+ 939

 

 

 

- 1GB Dual Channel DDR (Cosair, Giel and Kingmax/kingston should be your best bet)

 

 

 

- HDD is good, although you might want to think about moving to SATA.

 

 

 

- Video Card, if you're not going to be hardcore gaming then you could probably do with an Radeon 9800 Pro, or something similar. That's your call though.

 

 

 

- Monitor, same as above. I'd personally go with the 19" LCD IF the comp will be for multimedia more than gaming. It seems to be a good price, although I'm unsure of the brand. You might want to shop around.

 

 

 

- Keyboard / Mouse, seems good. Whatever you need, get.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The killer will be your case. You should probably aim for one with room for two 80mm fans on the bank and either a 120mm on the front, or another two 80mm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You'd be looking at about 2.4K give or take a few 100 if you want to stay fairly up to date with most of your hardware specs. I got my comp specs floating around somewhere on TIF. It's used for pretty much the same purposes as you're looking at, so you could probably use it for a bit of a guide line.

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check if they have anything slightly higher than 128 mb ram... u may need a bit more if ur gonna use a lot of programs. especially xp, its a memory haul.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If its a decent card you really dont need anything above 128

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check if they have anything slightly higher than 128 mb ram... u may need a bit more if ur gonna use a lot of programs. especially xp, its a memory haul.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If its a decent card you really dont need anything above 128

Actually, 256mb can improve performance. This is because more and more games are starting to use large amounts of detailed textures that need to be stored in the GPU's memory. A 6600-series card can live with 128, but beyond that I would actually recomend the 256 variants.
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thanks for the input again- i feel that i can make an iformed decision when it comes to pc's now. i hope you all enjoy youre easter long weekends :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ahhh so long ago, good times good times.. ive been using my new pc for about a week now, its great. im really happy with it. i ended up getting the following.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

athlon 64 3500+

 

 

 

gigabytek8vt890-9 mainboard

 

 

 

1g dual DDR ram

 

 

 

PCIe XFX geforce 6600 256mb

 

 

 

viewsonic 17" multimedia lcd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and all that other good stuff :wink:

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