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bad guy
My system is 5 years old running at 500 mhz. Most of my computing
uses are not-cutting-edge games, Internet, a little word processing.
It's time to update so I'm considering using my existing 500w case,
monitor, kb, mouse, cd drive and floppy and putting in something like
this:
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
What does Deluxe mean?
Is it worth the extra $40?
It doesn't have an AGP slot so my old video card won't work.
Would I be better off getting a MB that will take my AGP card or buy a
cheap??? PCI Express video card?
CPU Athlon 4 939 at 2.0 GHZ
I think Venice comes recommended but what is X2? Cores?
Memory : ( 2 ) 512K chips for total of 1 Gig. Later I could add
two more in the other 2 slots.
Kingston seems to have a bad reputation. Corsair is more expensive
but is it worth it?
Video Card: Asus GEforce 6200 128 mg at $46 or something else?
I recognized the Asus name but not Saphire, Powercolor or MSI.
Thank you for the advice I've already received form this newsgroup.
uses are not-cutting-edge games, Internet, a little word processing.
It's time to update so I'm considering using my existing 500w case,
monitor, kb, mouse, cd drive and floppy and putting in something like
this:
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
What does Deluxe mean?
Is it worth the extra $40?
It doesn't have an AGP slot so my old video card won't work.
Would I be better off getting a MB that will take my AGP card or buy a
cheap??? PCI Express video card?
CPU Athlon 4 939 at 2.0 GHZ
I think Venice comes recommended but what is X2? Cores?
Memory : ( 2 ) 512K chips for total of 1 Gig. Later I could add
two more in the other 2 slots.
Kingston seems to have a bad reputation. Corsair is more expensive
but is it worth it?
Video Card: Asus GEforce 6200 128 mg at $46 or something else?
I recognized the Asus name but not Saphire, Powercolor or MSI.
Thank you for the advice I've already received form this newsgroup.