New Comp

Hey well im new to x64 forums, and im just wondering this new computer im going to build, how would you rate it

edit: had to cut budget due to the fact that i only have one monitor that my brother is using (hes not being very nice to say that my dad bought it for me and my 2 other brothers)
AMD ATHLON 64 X2 5200 2.60ghz
2gb ddr2 ram (WILL upgrade to 4gb later >.>)
160 gb hd
am2 "GA-M61PME-S2" motherboard
Geforce 8400 512mb

apposed to my current computer that i use now (my brothers....pretty old stuff)
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2.40hz
2gb ram
uhh its agp motherboard..all i know about it ...agp is ancient
geforce 7300gt 256mb
160gb hd

i use my computer mainly for internet / watching movies / downloading and a little gaming
i dont use it for "hardcore" gaming n stuff i have my xbox for that
Thanks.

Hope your planning on use vista 64 bit version to be able to use all the ram other than that looks good.

Lukepker said:

Hey well im new to x64 forums, and im just wondering this new computer im going to build, how would you rate it

AMD ATHLON 64 X2 5400 2.80ghz
4gb ddr2 ram (might upgrade to 8gb later >.>)
160 gb hd
am2 "GA-M61PME-S2" motherboard
Geforce 8400 512MB OR Geforce 8500 256MB

apposed to my current computer that i use now (my brothers....pretty old stuff)
AMD ahtlon 64 3400+ 2.40hz
2gb ram
uhh its agp motherboard..all i know about it ...agp is ancient
geforce 7300gt 256mb
160gb hd

i use my computer mainly for internet / watching movies / downloading
i dont use it for hardcore gaming n stuff i have my xbox for that
Thanks.

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Welcome to Vista forums......
If it's true that you are going to use your new computer as above than set up you're intend on putting together is more then sufficient enough to run. Even your old machine will do exactly the same with ease.
Nevertheless, if you want to buy new part rest assured that it will do what you want it to do

regards
acdcfan

all looks ok to me. Might be worth going for 250gb hard drive if u plan to get 8gb of ram, the extra space would compensate for the hibernation system file & the windows paging file.

fieseler said:

all looks ok to me. Might be worth going for 250gb hard drive if u plan to get 8gb of ram, the extra space would compensate for the hibernation system file & the windows paging file.

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i dont plan on 8gb ram anytime soon now
im going for one stick of 2gb for now then another stick later
i only have one monitor for now (i thought i had 2)
and my brother is using it ( on his current computer )
so im going to have to buy one, less budget

4 people currently use this computer (160gb hd) and its still got around 100gb left so i doubt i can fill 250gb

i know my computer already does all the things i want but i didnt really mention i bought call of duty 4 for computer (cheaper then xbox) and it really REALLY wasnt performing smoothly at all, so i do use my computer for high quality games sometimes

and yes i am going to get windows x64 :D
thanks guys ;p

If you plan doing a little gaming a nVidia Geforce 8400 is not enough. Upgrading to a 8500 will be better for the performances.

I suggest 512Mb 8800GTS overclocked edition