is this a good spec? is there any gaping holes? am i missing massively a gfx card or is the onborad good enough?
i tend to do bits of photoshop, lots of dreamweaver, lots of firefox and a lot of desktop tower defense.
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Matt
forgot to mention, this will be a Vista box. actually i might want to dual boot it with ubuntu to see how thats coming along, its been a year since i abandoned it.
wouldnt mind being able to play call of duty 4 on it.
Do you actually do any heavy gaming, or heavy media processing?
not right now, but i dont want to rule it out.
right, question, cos ive been out of this hardware malarkey for longer than i care to admit
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139971
if i run that processor, do i need to run 1333 RAM, like this?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142386
cos that appears to be DDR3 and the mainboard of choice
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143173
doesnt appear to run 1333 RAM, only 1200 and below.
god, how complicated is this?
The wolfdale [E8400] is a better short term choice, as for ram you can use DDR2 if you buy a mobo thats suitable, I would avoid DDR3 as the price hike outweighs any slight advantage.
My brother has one on a Striker Extreme with my spare 800mhz ram in it.