On Thursday 29 December 2005 13:24, dene maxwell wrote: > I suspect that stressing this to my PC builder will remove the same "but > if" factor from their build. > IE I have $NZ700. This is the minimum spec.....any left over money will be > spent of these items in this order: Video processor, Video ram, CPU > processor, System RAM, HDD speed, HDD size
Dene, it may be a good idea to shop around a bit first. Also putting a PC together yourself is a lot of fun and saves some money too. I don't live in New Zealand but I checked out some prices online and you can get a system with the following specs for under $NZ 700 : - AMD Sempron 2400+ (1667MHz) Socket A 333MHz FSB 256KB Cache Boxed with Heatsink & Fan - VIAKM400A Chipset motherboard, Socket A, 400MHz FSB, 2xDIMM, 1xAGP, 3xPCI, 2xATA133, 6xUSB2, Onboard Graphics, Audio, LAN, Micro ATX - 512MB DDR400 - HLC9632B Midi Tower Case 350W PSU Black ATX - Hitachi 80GB 7200rpm ATA100 2 MB Cache - Samsung 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive, Beige - Pixelview GeForce 6600 256MB DDR 8x AGP Graphics Card So now you have a fairly decent system with a very good video card, fast DDR400 RAM, a half decent processor and twice the amount of secondary storage space. If you're an Intel fan then you'll have to get something a lot slower because of the price difference but I can guarentee you that a Sempron 2400+ will be a *lot* faster than PIII clocked at less that 1 GHz. Even the old, budget, AMD Durons gave the PIII's a run for their money. Paul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
