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Reply #15 - Feb 22^nd, 2006 at 4:32pm

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96 of Ram? wow that makes me feel better. But i guess i am going to save money and buy a custom pc for games. i am thinking with a budget bellow 1000 buks ( Alien Ware? )

Dell XPS 410&&&&22 In Widescreen LCD, 2GB RAM, Nvidia GEForce 8600 256MB, Intel VIIV (DUO) @ 1.3 each, and windows vista. Heck yesh!

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Reply #16 - Feb 24^th, 2006 at 12:57am

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*i want to know, my friend has a computer that had a 96mb ram stick... how is this possible!?!

It's possible because he has an onboard video card that is set to reserve 32mb of system ram out of a total of 128mb for it's onboard video memory, thus he loses those mbs in effective and measured system ram.

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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Reply #17 - Feb 24^th, 2006 at 12:58am

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96 of Ram? wow that makes me feel better. But i guess i am going to save money and buy a custom pc for games. i am thinking with a budget bellow 1000 buks ( Alien Ware? )

Alienware is just a bunch of parts assembled and they charge double.

Buy a DFI, Epox, Abit or Asus mainboard based on an nForce4 SLI, nForce4 Ultra, nForce4 or nForce4 4X chipset, then fit a 3700+ San Diego or an X2 4400+ to it...... with 7800GT or GTX graphics card and 2gb of PC4000 RAM.

The rest is details. You can skimp and go 2 x 512mb ram modules if you want, but if you skimp on the other stuff....... Tongue

The mainboard is the most imortant thing to get right. Get a fully featured big arse board. There are cheap ones out there, particularly with the Epox and Abit boards, but beware, there are many models with subtle differences.

NF4-SLI
http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=390

NF4 Ultra w/firewire
http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=335

NF4 Ultra
http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=403

NF4 w/firewire (NF4 has no SATA II support, but supports SATA I which is practically just as fast.)
http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=393

NF4 4X (this is just a cheaper version of the chipset)
http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=370

You'll notice on the Epox website that there is a plethora of models made. I picked the examples above for good reasons.

You'll find a similar trend with most manufacturers, you need a good bit of knowledge to pick the best boards, but basically, if it has a tweakable BIOS and the features you require, then it's a good board if within the above specs.

Look at the DFI, Asus and Abit sites.

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Reply #18 - Feb 28^th, 2006 at 1:15pm

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Ok, i will check it out, well i can only put one more RAM stick on my laptop ( or is it posible to take out the one that is already there and put 2 512 Mb Ram sticks in? ) well i am going to BBY* when i can.

*Best Buy

Dell XPS 410&&&&22 In Widescreen LCD, 2GB RAM, Nvidia GEForce 8600 256MB, Intel VIIV (DUO) @ 1.3 each, and windows vista. Heck yesh!

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Reply #19 - Mar 3^rd, 2006 at 8:08am

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You can take out the current one you have in there and replace it. If I were you I would go to newegg.com and not BB. Also I would suggest looking at corsair XMS notebook. I have that in my lappy, and runs almost as good as my desktop.

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