Re: PC for Catia and Gaming
If you don's need SLi, get an ASUS P5B (or another Intel p35) mobo. I would get a Q6600 as it will have more horsepower and probably better long term value. An additional 2GB ram (to give 4gb) would also be worthwhile (even if XP won't see all of it) Do you intend to use the disks independently, or use RAID0?
Re: PC for Catia and Gaming
For CAD I'd personally put more ram in it, you can make XP address upto 3gb using the 3gb switch in your boot.ini
Put 4 gb in & XP will see it and make use of it all.
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Re: PC for Catia and Gaming
8800gt is being released on the 29th Oct @£140+ This card is looking good so I would wait until then.
Re: PC for Catia and Gaming
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kungpo
If you don's need SLi, get an ASUS P5B (or another Intel p35) mobo. I would get a Q6600 as it will have more horsepower and probably better long term value. An additional 2GB ram (to give 4gb) would also be worthwhile (even if XP won't see all of it) Do you intend to use the disks independently, or use RAID0?
Yes i intend od setting up raid hence the floppy disk drive, i was told thts the only way to do it!?
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i will be upgrading this computer again come june/july time next year when the budget isn't soo tight so at which point i intend to upgrade to a quad core and the graphics card will be a high spec one, but for now i got a budget of £750 so budget is tight already!lol
Re: PC for Catia and Gaming
Forget the floppy drive. If you need an F8 driver, use nlite to slipstream the driver on to your XP installation and make a new CD. Dead easy.
If you're going to RAID0, then I would suggest a pair of WD AAKS drives. They have 16mb cache and are spanking in a RAID0 setup.