258MB or 128MB ?

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my £500 Build..

Antec Sonata II Piano black Quiet case - 450W PSU
Asus A8N-SLi nForce SLi (socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+Venice
XP Home
Leadtek WinFast PCX6600GT 128MB
Geil 1Gb Memory

now heres my question the 6600GT 128MB retails at £100

will a 256MB PCI-Express NVidia GeForce PCX6600 DDR DVI TV Out be Compatible and will it be better as i have seen one for £80

Every penny helps in my £500 budget as i dont know too much about building and this rig was suggested on this forum for me

If better what difference will i see ?
 
I'd go for the 6600GT with128Mb RAM, it has faster clock and memory speeds than the vanilla flavour.

The 6600GT is quite a bargain actually, good little performer for the money.
 
Right i will stick with the specs given...ie
my £500 Build..

Antec Sonata II Piano black Quiet case - 450W PSU
Asus A8N-SLi nForce SLi (socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+Venice
XP Home
Leadtek WinFast PCX6600GT 128MB
Geil 1Gb Memory

Now ...my neighbour has just purchased for £255 a AMD dual core x2 3800+
processor
asrock 939 socket dual sata2 , 1000mhz fsb pci-e agp 7.1 ch motherboard
1 gb pc3200 400mhz memory
and a freezer 64 pro cooler
and kept his peripherals

its a bit of a bragging thing but do i lag way behind ..i mean £255 just on a cpu
 
How come you dont have a hard drive included in that build:confused:because you wouldnt want to try and run a comp without one:p
 
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Rush said:
Now ...my neighbour has just purchased for £255 a AMD dual core x2 3800+
processor
asrock 939 socket dual sata2 , 1000mhz fsb pci-e agp 7.1 ch motherboard
1 gb pc3200 400mhz memory
and a freezer 64 pro cooler
and kept his peripherals

its a bit of a bragging thing but do i lag way behind ..i mean £255 just on a cpu
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You really won't notice an awful lot of difference apart from when multi-tasking.

To buy a dual core CPU and then stick it in a budget board seems kinda counter-productive to me.

I have an Asrock Dual sata2 board with an AMD 3200 64 in it, 2 x 256Mb and my old 9800Pro AGP vid card. It's my daughter's machine and runs great.

But the Asus you've selected is a far superior motherboard.
 
Stick with what you are getting ... then laugh at your neighbor when you're system out performs his.

;)
 
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice Core OEM SKT 939


is this a bargain at £103 inc delivery for my system ?
 
OCUK will do you one for £100.11

Edit: no they won't thats for an OEM 3000, so yeah its a good deal
 
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NO i didnt..
Realised at the last possible moment , came with no Heatsink or fan
Close call .
 
If you buy "retail" AMD CPU it will come with its own HSF ... they are very quiet and do the job admirably, and 3 years limited warranty. (keep the box) :thumb:

OEM has NO HSF and only 1 year grantee. ;)
 
PotGuy said:
well even if it hadnt, a good hsf is only £10
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A tenner? You'd be hard pushed to get a decent cooler for that price, in my opinion.

The old AMD stock Socket A coolers were quite rubbish but the ones being supplied with the 64 series actually do the job quite well.
 
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