What specificly was " broken" from the motherboard...

No, not under any normal circumstances...

Whens the last time you defrag her computer? How about other general windows maitence?

Have that board, you NEED the cd it came with to install the nForce drivers :)

I'm on the ATI bandwagon, but I've expirenced nothing but pain from the XP 64 builds, I'd suggest backing down to WinXP Pro untill the 64 bit line of XP has more ready drivers.

Chances are you video card steals some of your onboard ram :)

Do make sure you have the motherboard to support the AMD 64 processor before you run off and buy one!

Yes, I am aware of all that fun jazz about processor speeds, but not only did you not gain a whole lot of speed, you didn't gain much raw power.

A AMD XP 2500+ would probally out preform you 2800+...

You moved from a Real PRocessor, to a budget processor, which is part of your problem.

You went from a P4 1.7 ghz processor with more cache, to an AMD Semperon Class (equivlant of a celeron in...

I can play HL2 on 1280x1024 on meidum settings on my R8500 with no adverse effects :p thats power.

You should be able to pickup a ATi Radeon 9800 Pro for 150 USD...

Your always want as much power as you can afford, 300 watts might not be enough for a new high end system, 400 and 500 and even 600watt power supplys are not uncomon.

I'd suggest anything above...

That video card is just not a work horse, its a lower end card, my own ATi R8500 should outpreform that in most tasks even though the card is much older, It has more ram and a few other things.

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What will you be developing, specificly if you can tell us :)

Do you really want to stick with Pentinums or are you open to other suggestions?

Will this workstation be used for anything else...

I have a 754, i knew when I got it I would have limited upgradability.

But it doesn't matter to me so much. My next upgrade will be a new board and new chipset again anyway. :)

NewEgg 99% of the time is the cheapest overall, as if you order from 50 other places
you are paying 50 times the shipping

Some How i doubt that is true, as I remember reading stats and tons of test data, they are real work horses


It depends on what you really want to do, if its game and do regular windows like...

For a new nice computer you are going to spend at least 600 minus software and a monitor.

I just built my friend (less than 3 months ago) a new system

AMD XP 2500+ Barton
ATi Saphire 9800 Pro...

Your system amy be limited to 384MB of system ram.

You need to check the jumpers on the motherboard, if the FSB is set to 100mhz you need to change it to 133 or 166.

You can put as much ram in as you wantm in any differnt sizes (within reason).

I would suggest either 2x 256's or getting 1 512 and adding it to your current machine,

make sure you get the same...

Sorry ^_^ i ment no offense.

Tek's advice is good. When you finally get everything dont get bumed if it doesnt work on the first time. You will go though alot of trial and error.

Wow your bulding a processor? how fast will it be? ;)

A CPU would be your processor, Your Building a computer ;) not a CPU ;D

Monitors usualy arnt that cheep unless their on sale
You can get...

very intresting :)

when you switch a mobo windows NT usualy doesnt like a switch like that, most of the time ive needed to reinstall :)

well for the first thing, there both p4's so meh,

second theres a serious differnece in ther system stats and the OS there using, the windows 2k takes less ram (less memory leaks) compared to...

AMD's usualy match p4's not ahead maybe abit behind, but with usualy a few HUNDRED mghz behind :)

if anyone noticed he said "laptop"


ALL newer laptops beit p4 or AMD use a dynamic speed to conserve power, so then, if the computer only needs 1.2 ghz it will only use 1.2 ghz ;D

sounds like bad ram, do any of the contacts look fried?

nope you need the 64bit edition

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.asp

mm, im a personal fan of AMD, 64bit is going to be the way to go, but be aware that if you do get the 64bit you do need to run windows xp 64bit edition to get the full preformance outta it.


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