My PC

[ThE_KiD]

well your lucky... Waiting for Cabe to come up with a build using my budget

Dude 4gig ram is crazy fast lol.

[Cabe]

Originally Posted by ThE_KiD

Dude 4gig ram is crazy fast lol.

Depends on the speed of the ram, if its generic it'll be rather slow. When I built my PC I chose 1Gb of 800Mhz corsair RAM over 2Gb of slower, 466Mhz RAM.

Can you link me to a site that has components in it in Hong Kong prices (in English if possible) because otherwise I'm sure something that costs £100 here will not be the equivilant price, probably be cheeper where you are so I could select better stuff. I tried searching on Google but I wasn't sure what to look for

[ThE_KiD]

Sure Cabe, asa I get back from my holi.

[Thunder Lucky]

Originally Posted by Cabe

Depending on the state of your current PC I would probably recommend you ditch most of it and build a new PC. If you give me a budget I'll see what I can find for you to build a gaming PC.

You'll probably want to spring for a DX10 gaphics card (any of the GeForce 8 series) so consider that too.

Well if hes going to be running vista then he mind as well go with the 8800 Series of cards, if he wants to run windows XP for now I'd reccomend a 7600GT. Will do a good job on most games out there with out a slow down and is very cheap. I'd just get vista now and get a 8800GTX. Depends on what games you want to be playing as well. I'll build one for ya online and link you to the parts if your interested. Just need more info on what it will be used for and what games you will be playing.

[Thunder Lucky]

Originally Posted by ThE_KiD

well your lucky... Waiting for Cabe to come up with a build using my budget

Dude 4gig ram is crazy fast lol.

4 Gigs of ram is overkill on windows XP and you will not get any preformance increase. Anything over 2GB on Windows XP is complete overkill. On vista however 4 GBs of ram might show a bit of a increase in preformance then 2GB of ram but its not worth the extra money. Also for gaming never get less then DDR2 800

[Cabe]

Originally Posted by Thunder Lucky

4 Gigs of ram is overkill on windows XP and you will not get any preformance increase. Anything over 2GB on Windows XP is complete overkill. On vista however 4 GBs of ram might show a bit of a increase in preformance then 2GB of ram but its not worth the extra money. Also for gaming never get less then DDR2 800

4Gb of RAM on XP is only overkill on the 32bit editions, they can only address 4Gb of memory at max so I'd say the optimal is 3Gb, anything more than that is overkill.
3Gb will give a performance boost over 2Gb.

If you have the 64bit edition you could stick as much RAM as you want in. 8Gb would really be the max because that would be 4x2Gb sticks and thats pretty much the largest sticks you can get atm.

[ThE_KiD]

Okay Cabe, I got the software and these are the gizmos on my pc. I am only going to list the main things cause there alot... Btw I have no idea on half of what I am reading.

Operating System
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)

Processor
3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Main Circuit Board
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Grouper 1.xx
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 3.19 03/10/2005

Drives
200.03 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
107.57 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HP DVD Writer 640b [CD-ROM drive]

Brother MFC-425CN USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 5
Generic USB CF Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Generic USB MS Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Generic USB SD Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
Generic USB SM Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
ST3200822AS [Hard drive] (200.05 GB) -- drive 0

Memory Modules
512 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' has 256 MB (serial number SerNum0)
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 256 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty

Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 194.81 GB 106.82 GB free
d: (FAT32 on drive 0) 5.21 GB 749 MB free

Thats all the important ones.

[Monkey Business]

Lol need more memory

[Kernel Kev]

Dude, your PC isnt that bad. 3.0GHz is cool, i would upgrade the RAM for sure.

If it was me, i would get a new motherboard to support Dual Core (i doubt yours does) get an AMD X2 CPU, cheaper than intel, and some 800mhz ram, corsair are the good. Also, if you want gaming then a new graphics card would be useful. This should easily be under £300 because you wont need a hard drive or other parts, you might look into a better PSU aswell, ask Cabe what he thinks on that.

Click here - to see my specs on the PC im getting. May be of some help.



Kev

[ThE_KiD]

Yea, I need more ram for sure. Will my computer be able to add custom parts to it? since it is a official HP PC.