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Thanks for the recommendations. Sometimes CPU gets maxed out.
"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:11:17 GMT, "news"
> <mm183837@yahooo.com> wrote:
>
>>No specific budget. Just general internet usage, dvd movies, online music
>>and videos.
>>
>>
>
> With these modest uses, what do you find slow about a 1GHz
> CPU plus > 1GB of memory (presuming that was meant from
> "1.12 GHz") ?
>
> Internet shouldn't be effected much, DVD movies should play
> full speed, full quality on your box. If anything the video
> card might be upgraded, for absolute best DVD the newer ATI
> cards are generally best, but nVidia's aren't bad either...
> but then you made no mention of the card presently used.
>
> Online music will have no benefit, any old Pentium II box is
> sufficient for that.
>
> Videos, depends on exactly what you mean... playing videos
> encoded with somewhat CPU dependant codec like Divx, at full
> DVD resolution, will benefit from CPU upgrade, but the most
> modern, most expensive platforms are certainly not
> necessary.
>
> The best bang for the buck for described uses would probably
> be somthing like:
>
> $65 Basic nForce2 motherboard
>
> $150 Pair of 512MB PC3200 Memory Modules (1GB not really
> necessary for desribed use of system, but since you already
> had 1GB in current system...)
>
> $55 Athlon XP2400
>
> $90 Video Card (like Radeon 9600)
>
>