Will Jo run on this?

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Hi guys just wanting to know if Jo final version will run smoothly on this :


AMD Athlon 3000XP or 3200XP
256Mb GeForce FX5700
1Gb DDR333 memory
200Gb 7200rpm 8MB Buffer Hard Drive
Windows XP



let me know if theres anything missing and ill let you know, im getting a new pc for Jo (Will cost me £800 plus and to a 14 year old thats enough so i need as much info as possible)



Thanks

[Steve]

motherboard aswell?

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havnt decided yet although the guy whos going to build it ill get him to put a very recent one in what do u suggest?

[atholon]

Get an A7N8X-VM it will support all of that or get the A7N8X-E Deluxe they are nice

[Steve]

Abit NF7-s

[atholon]

Abit NF7-s never heard of that.. I stick to ASUS quality...is Abit as good? I hear MSI sucks. That abit is about the same price as the VM I think

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what kinda price r those boards?

[Steve]

£50 or so.

i dont see how u can spend £800 unless that includes a monitor. My housemate just spent £500 upgrading every part of his comp except the gfx card, including case and powersupply, his machine kicks some now i can tell you.

[atholon]

Ugrades are cheaper if you have an OS already I just upgraded from an

AMD Atholon 1200+
40 GiG Harddrive
256mb PC133 SD RAM
SIS Systemboard

for about $600-700 that excludes monitor, OS and accessories.
BTW my friend's that we are building tomorrow is about $500
AMD Atholon XP, ASUS A7N8X-VM, 120 GIG WD HArddrive, 512MB PC3200 (MUHSKIN) BLUE and then an Antec 350W Case

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Well this guy makes very good quality computers , he made one 6 years ago (pentium 2 350Mhz) and its still running with no probs , he only uses the latest specs when he builds pc`s and he charges £25 a hour for labour then add VAT , puts the price up abit

[Steve]

how long does it it take him to build?

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Steve that would be a very good question lol , i think about 6hours when he has all the pieces not sure... ill find out soon

[Steve]

i'll do in 1 hour for u

[atholon]

Less than 30 minutes here...excluding XP installation time

[atholon]

Bah seems my friends mobo is fried. We tried 2 different kinds of RAM in it and it is still giving black screen

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kingston is a good type of RAM tried it?

[Steve]

good ram and expensive :/

[atholon]

We used Muskin Blue Level and they are supposed to be on of the best. Possibly better than Kingston.

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i was running on 256MB DDR 2100MHz (slow ) Running 512MB of 2700 still quite slow but its better

[atholon]

I don't see that big of a difference in RAM running speed.