Opinions?

[Guest]

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Looking for a new pc for a friend and found this on a website

3000+ Athlon XP 64
1.0GB DDR400
Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT (128mb) with Video In & out!
2 x SATA 80GB HDD
16x DVD-/+ RW

£730 without a monitor
£900 with a 17" (16ms)

what do you think?


--
"Blu-Ray"
2600+
512Mb DDR 400
9600 pro 128 (O/C @ 450/420)
Gigabyte mobo wit 400mhz fsb
Raidmax cobra case wit 420w psu

 

[DaveL]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

It depends on what motherboard it has. You need to ask.

DaveL


"Veritech" <avis.dalrymple@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:UWrId.888$wD4.224@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
> Looking for a new pc for a friend and found this on a website
>
> 3000+ Athlon XP 64
> 1.0GB DDR400
> Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT (128mb) with Video In & out!
> 2 x SATA 80GB HDD
> 16x DVD-/+ RW
>
> £730 without a monitor
> £900 with a 17" (16ms)
>
> what do you think?
>
>
> --
> "Blu-Ray"
> 2600+
> 512Mb DDR 400
> 9600 pro 128 (O/C @ 450/420)
> Gigabyte mobo wit 400mhz fsb
> Raidmax cobra case wit 420w psu
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

You could build it a lot cheaper

"Veritech" <avis.dalrymple@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:UWrId.888$wD4.224@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
> Looking for a new pc for a friend and found this on a website
>
> 3000+ Athlon XP 64
> 1.0GB DDR400
> Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT (128mb) with Video In & out!
> 2 x SATA 80GB HDD
> 16x DVD-/+ RW
>
> £730 without a monitor
> £900 with a 17" (16ms)
>
> what do you think?
>
>
> --
> "Blu-Ray"
> 2600+
> 512Mb DDR 400
> 9600 pro 128 (O/C @ 450/420)
> Gigabyte mobo wit 400mhz fsb
> Raidmax cobra case wit 420w psu
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

looks good. go for it


"Veritech" <avis.dalrymple@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:UWrId.888$wD4.224@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
> Looking for a new pc for a friend and found this on a website
>
> 3000+ Athlon XP 64
> 1.0GB DDR400
> Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT (128mb) with Video In & out!
> 2 x SATA 80GB HDD
> 16x DVD-/+ RW
>
> £730 without a monitor
> £900 with a 17" (16ms)
>
> what do you think?
>
>
> --
> "Blu-Ray"
> 2600+
> 512Mb DDR 400
> 9600 pro 128 (O/C @ 450/420)
> Gigabyte mobo wit 400mhz fsb
> Raidmax cobra case wit 420w psu
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

bit pricey, and why the hell does it have 2 80gb drives instead of 1 160gb?
"Veritech" <avis.dalrymple@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:UWrId.888$wD4.224@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
> Looking for a new pc for a friend and found this on a website
>
> 3000+ Athlon XP 64
> 1.0GB DDR400
> Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT (128mb) with Video In & out!
> 2 x SATA 80GB HDD
> 16x DVD-/+ RW
>
> £730 without a monitor
> £900 with a 17" (16ms)
>
> what do you think?
>
>
> --
> "Blu-Ray"
> 2600+
> 512Mb DDR 400
> 9600 pro 128 (O/C @ 450/420)
> Gigabyte mobo wit 400mhz fsb
> Raidmax cobra case wit 420w psu
>
>
>

 

[DaveL]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

I would assume for raid capability.

DaveL


"Iain Dingsdale" <iaindingsdale@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> bit pricey, and why the hell does it have 2 80gb drives instead of 1
> 160gb?
> "Veritech" <avis.dalrymple@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:UWrId.888$wD4.224@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
>> Looking for a new pc for a friend and found this on a website
>>
>> 3000+ Athlon XP 64
>> 1.0GB DDR400
>> Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT (128mb) with Video In & out!
>> 2 x SATA 80GB HDD
>> 16x DVD-/+ RW
>>
>> £730 without a monitor
>> £900 with a 17" (16ms)
>>
>> what do you think?
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Blu-Ray"
>> 2600+
>> 512Mb DDR 400
>> 9600 pro 128 (O/C @ 450/420)
>> Gigabyte mobo wit 400mhz fsb
>> Raidmax cobra case wit 420w psu
>>
>>
>>
>
>

 

[steve]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

"Iain Dingsdale" <iaindingsdale@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> bit pricey, and why the hell does it have 2 80gb drives instead of 1
> 160gb?
[snip]

So you can have your hard disk intensive programs on a separate HDD to your
OS and swapfile, thus improving overall disk IO speeds?

Cheers.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

>bit pricey, and why the hell does it have 2 80gb drives instead of 1 160gb?

RAID maybe?