Had a few questions about a rig I'm about to order potentially. I'm not paying cash for it, it's being obtained in exchange for "Virtual" money of sorts, so I don't have a say in what comes with it unfortunately but it seems like a decent setup. Here's what he's sent me about it.
My concerns are the RAM mainly. I understand the motherboard included is a triple channel board and it seems as though he's include two sticks of DDR3 RAM. Will this be a problem? Should I buy another stick and toss it in to make it a solid 6 GB and prevent any voltage problems [if there might be any]?
Another thing, my current rig is as follows: e8400, HD4850, EP-35, and 4 GB of DDR2 RAM. Am I going to see much of an increase for gaming or anything else for that matter? I believe my 4850 GPU is better so what I'm considering is swapping video cards and using the new system as my own and either selling the other system, giving it away as a gift or using it as a home theater PC. What would be the most equivilant video card to the rest of the system because I don't really want to bottle neck myself with a high end PC especially with that motherboard and CPU being as powerful as they are.
Anything else I should note or consider? Thanks for any help.
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WD 300Gig Velco Raptor@10K RPM's for gameing and for your OS
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LG Super Burner
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Razer Lachesis Lazer Mouse & Kingwin Keyboard
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One of 4 choices the OS
1) XP HOME EDTION
2)XP Professional X64 Edtion
3)Vista Home Premium 32 &64 bit version
4) No OS
My concerns are the RAM mainly. I understand the motherboard included is a triple channel board and it seems as though he's include two sticks of DDR3 RAM. Will this be a problem? Should I buy another stick and toss it in to make it a solid 6 GB and prevent any voltage problems [if there might be any]?
Another thing, my current rig is as follows: e8400, HD4850, EP-35, and 4 GB of DDR2 RAM. Am I going to see much of an increase for gaming or anything else for that matter? I believe my 4850 GPU is better so what I'm considering is swapping video cards and using the new system as my own and either selling the other system, giving it away as a gift or using it as a home theater PC. What would be the most equivilant video card to the rest of the system because I don't really want to bottle neck myself with a high end PC especially with that motherboard and CPU being as powerful as they are.
Anything else I should note or consider? Thanks for any help.