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Old February 22nd 04, 08:42 PM
Bruce Tyler
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Default Thanks for input - What I wound up buying....

A handful of days ago I asked for some suggestions as to what you guys
consider to be a good update...

I HAD,,,
Asus A7M266 M/B
512 mb PC2100 RAM
XP2000+ CPU

I was go to buy something like this...
Asus A7NAX M/B
512 mb PC3200 RAM
XP2800 CPU

I asked for your suggestions...

The night before I bought it, I phoned the shop and asked for all the
parts "you guys" gave as your suggestions and they said they had all
the parts... When I got to the shop Saturday, they made out the
invoice. Whoops, they had sold out of the Asus M/B's so I got Gigabyte
GA-7N400. OK I can live with that but I don't know anything about
Gigabyte boards although I do know that Gigabyte do have some good
stuff. I went over to the desk to pick up all my bits and then whoops,
no more XP2800 so they virtually gave me an XP3000 for the
inconvenience. They gave me the BIG speech about how they will lose
money in this deal - Yawwwwwnnnn...!!!! but I told them I too was
****ed off that they told me they had an XP2800 but none available
when I get here.

I was all set to get an XP2500 and try the o/clocking thing but when
the owner muttered a few words to the sales guy, under his breath,
they said how about taking this XP3000 instead... I thought "here
comes the sales pitch" but when they gave the price, I didn't even
bother to think twice - SOLD....!!!! Besides,, there were lots of
customers in the shop and they were doing lots of business so they can
afford this one. I also wound up buying 2 sticks of 512mb of PC3200...
I think it is Hynix. probably not the best but they are a matching
pair and already I can see that this system is performing quite well
compared to 3 days ago...

I hope I did right by you guys... AND - Thanks for the suggestions...
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Old February 22nd 04, 09:20 PM
Destroy
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Not much of a speed increase but its your money.

 




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