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Jimmy White · 12-22-2003, 03:46 AM

AMD ATHLON XP2500+ 333MHZ FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton CPU - OEM
Sapphire Radeon 128MB 9600XT DDR DVI-i TV-Out Retail Box
Asus A7N8X-X SKT A Nforce2 AGP X8 Sound USB 2.0 Motherboard Retail Box
Western Digital Caviar SE 40Gb UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache Disk Drive - OEM
Corsair (CMX512-2700C2PT) 512MB DDR333 Memory Module

for a gaming rig should i get 1024mb of ram?
i hope 40gb is suffiecient (all its going to have on it is the OS XP home and my Antivirus and my games about 7ish)
I want this to be able to play games like Battlefield on HIGH detail
Halflife 2
world of warcraft

should i spend extra money on the CMX ram? im not planning to O/c should i get 1024 of normal ram from kingston or crucial?

12-22-2003, 03:46 AM	#15
Jimmy White Member (10 bit) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: England the centre of the world Posts: 676	AMD ATHLON XP2500+ 333MHZ FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton CPU - OEM Sapphire Radeon 128MB 9600XT DDR DVI-i TV-Out Retail Box Asus A7N8X-X SKT A Nforce2 AGP X8 Sound USB 2.0 Motherboard Retail Box Western Digital Caviar SE 40Gb UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache Disk Drive - OEM Corsair (CMX512-2700C2PT) 512MB DDR333 Memory Module for a gaming rig should i get 1024mb of ram? i hope 40gb is suffiecient (all its going to have on it is the OS XP home and my Antivirus and my games about 7ish) I want this to be able to play games like Battlefield on HIGH detail Halflife 2 world of warcraft should i spend extra money on the CMX ram? im not planning to O/c should i get 1024 of normal ram from kingston or crucial? Last edited by Jimmy White; 12-22-2003 at 03:51 AM.