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Dec 21st, 2003 at 11:58am

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Msi 256 Mb Fx5600xt Td Dvi Tv Out

there is a company local to me that is selling this card for £89.36 + 17.5% VAT is this a good prices as i am hopefully going to build my pc with the folowing specs

Amd Athlon xp3000+
1gb of pc3200 ram
120gb seagate hard drive W/t 8mb cache
Msi 256 Mb Fx5600xt Td Dvi Tv Out
Optorite Dvd +/-Rw Retail Box
Sony 1.44 Mb Internal Floppy Disk Drive

all for £520 inc vat
is this good also????
 
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Reply #1 - Dec 25th, 2003 at 4:04pm

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Not bad value, not great though.

If you do go ahead, first, stick with Nvidia but, don't go for the FX5600, go for the 5700 - without a doubt, a far better card than the FX5600 and a match for the Ati 9600 which is certainly quicker than an FX 5600 (Confused yet?  Grin )

If it was my money, I'd be looking towards an 800fsb P4 3.0ghz based system, combined with a decent mobo with support for dual channel RAM etc, frankly, the AMD would'nt be on my shortlist.

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Reply #2 - Dec 31st, 2003 at 5:40am

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Ive Looked at p4's and amd options and i have also used both (not with fs 9 yet though) and i have found (with other games) that for the extra expense of the p4 the performance difference is minimal and the extra expense outweights the extra performace

AMD ATHLON XP3000+ 333MHZ FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton CPU - OEM  =  £142.17 inc VAT

Intel Pentium 4 3.0ghz 800FSB SKT478 512kb Cache Retail Box  =  £216.44 inc VAT
 
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