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A rather dated NVIDIA Geforce graphics card and now soon to be superseded AGP ports. This card provides high performance and good driver stability at a budget price of £36.79 bought on the 18th May 2004.
This card seemed suited at the time because it offered an AGP card 8x speed bus with 128MB of DDR memory.
I would personally stick to NVIDIA for graphics cards because they are my preferred preference.
However ATI Radeon and MSI VGA ranges provide cards much the same and their is nothing wrong with their products but in essence they are using NVIDIA technology so I would stick to the main manufacture. I have had no issues with this card and its been very stable. I only notice now with playing recent games it don’t quiet do the job but thats expected.
I would love to have the newer XFX 7800GT 256MB or 512MB PCI-Express card version, however this involves buying a whole new motherboard and the costs for these cards are still a bit high at the moment, ah well… something to dream about.
January 10th, 2006
As a preferred buyer of crucial memory I was a little hesitant to buying Kingston memory and wasn’t sure of its reliability.
At the time for the same amount of memory crucial prices were sky rocketing, being on a budget I had decided to take the risk and bought two 512MB of Kingston memory modules to make up to 1GB of DDR400 SDRAM. All this for a grand total of £141.98 purchased on the 18th May 2004.
The memory modules were bought as a pair because they had to be inserted as doubles in order for the hyper-threading technology to work fluently. I was actually rather surprised with the result and it all worked a treat with no problems encountered.
January 10th, 2006
The Intel Pentium 4 Processor with HT (Hyper-Threading) technology provides high performance multitasking capabilities and excellent reliability and product efficiency.
I decided on the Intel Pentium 4 2.6GHz processor at a RTP of £104.23 purchased from ebuyer on the 18th May 2004. It comes as a socket 478 with 800MHz FSB bus speed and a 20KB L1, 512 KB L2 cache.
This boxed retail package also included a heat sink and fan. With Intel they provided a 3 years warranty as well, which is always a good advantage. This is a really good processor fast and efficient no problems, however it would even be better if it were an Intel Xeon processor and was 64 bit, who knows may be I will get one soon.
January 10th, 2006
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