Ongoing Upgrade imminent (1 Viewer)

[Efros]

Arriving in a couple of days

2x SAMSUNG SpinPoint P Series SP2504C 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
1x BIOSTAR K8M80-M7A + AMD Athlon64 3000+ Socket 754
1x CORSAIR ValueSelect 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)

replaces an athlon XP 2500+ and 640 Mb 333MHz DDR

Cross fingers the transition goes well.

 

[NLS]

What VGA?

Why don't you grab 2 or even better, 4 of those 512MB DIMMS? (you will NOT regret it)

 

[ohdarklord]

I agree with NLS you would be better of getting more ram but the rest looks good (better than my athlon xp 2000)

 

[Efros]

Not enough cssh is the simplest answer, as to the vga it will remain as the 256 Mb G4force 5500, also the mega cheap Biostar only takes 2 ddr sticks.

 

[wishywashy]

Arriving in a couple of days

2x SAMSUNG SpinPoint P Series SP2504C 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
1x BIOSTAR K8M80-M7A + AMD Athlon64 3000+ Socket 754
1x CORSAIR ValueSelect 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)

Newegg? I came close to getting buying the drives and processor/motherboard combo myself. Hope everything works.

 

[Efros]

Yup Newegg as they say Rocks, I use them all the time, another good one is geeks.com, their daily specials occasionally throw up a must have item.

 

[Tech Geek]

Now that I've deleted the post that was for a totally different forum...

ChiefValue.com has always been good for me and I've bought as much from them as newegg.

What bugs me about newegg is they advertise 3 day shipping. That's their way of saying UPS ground! It's taken packages up to 6 days to reach me and I only experienced "3 day shipping" 1 out of 3 times I order from them.
False advertising if you ask me. I also had problems with customer service. I was getting email responses for someone else and he was getting emails for me. We finally had to start traiding emails back and forth so we could see what costomer service's responses were. Other than that I like them and still order from them.

 

[Efros]

When using Newegg, its always best to select Fedex for shipping, UPS pretty much sucks.


Anyway the bits are all together, see sig, after some probs with the onboard sound which i remedied by disabling it and using a soundblaster audigy, I must say I am quite impressed with the result. Menus are snappier, less waiting around for stuff to happen, all in all worth the upgrade.