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Chris H
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Joined: 02 Mar 2004
Posts: 19978

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:50 am

righty since iain killed my new Asus motherboard he had to get me another, the shop were out of the asus ones ( Crying or Very sad ) he got me a crappyASRock mopther board.

This thing only has 2 ddr slots so can only take 2 gig to the asus 3 gig.

Anyway the processor was the fault it would seem.

It was an AMD Athlon 2200, now the only spare I had is an AMD Athlon 800 Shocked lol its pish.

So having a look at the price list I see this

Bundle deal

ATHLON 3100 XP bundle

processor + heatsink and fan + PC Chips 848 ALU

£98.70

I assume thats a mother board included?

if so poo.

Only other processors I can see on the list to suit are

AMD Sempron 2800+ 63BIT 754 <palmero> £63.39
AMD Duron 800Mhz 128k SKT A £26.97.

The duron is the same as the one in it I sassume and Iain said something about avoiding the 64 bit ones or summat.

Any help appreciated!
frogfrog
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Joined: 07 Nov 2005
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:10 am

ddr is the new form of mem blue slots nuthin to do with processor get a replacement processor same speed cpu can be overclocked but then become unstable if done.also i would say prices u quoted dont include motherboard as chips is regard to what chipset is on the board itself eg via appollo hope this helps.
Chris H
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:15 am

yes I knwo ddr is the memory, the point I was making is this new board can only go to 2 gig, the old one to 3 gig. Currently 0.5gig ddr and it needs more.

Just checked the bundle (the 100 quid one) and the pc chips thing IS a motherboard, should have got that really.
frogfrog
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Joined: 07 Nov 2005
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:23 am

well thats a good price then if motherboard included as well. having less mem wont hurt although you can never have enough memis more importent to smooth running thenprocessor speed.im running a 3oomhz processor with bags of mem on win98se which is better then xp which is due to be replaced anytime. youll have to buy a better board are mix ddr with sd ram.
Chet T16
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Joined: 12 Feb 2004
Posts: 5685

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:55 am

256 here Cool
the_chunkster
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Joined: 02 Aug 2004
Posts: 54

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:01 pm

I would stay well clear pc chips motherboards
the_chunkster
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Joined: 02 Aug 2004
Posts: 54

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:08 pm

have a look at this
[url]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Sempron_Bundles.html[/url]
Mad Pierre
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Joined: 18 Jun 2004
Posts: 614

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:07 pm

Hmmm pc spec's.

2 - 3.0ghz p4's one mine / one chunk's
1 - 2600+ amd sempron
1 - dual 1ghz amd athlon
1 - 1.8 ghz P4
1 - 2.0 ghz celeron laptop - mine
1 - 1.7 ghz amd XP laptop - chunk's
1 - 1.1 ghz amd Duron - just about fecked now.
1 - 486 beast machine - LOL

the rest we share.

As for PC chip's mobo's there not as bad as there used to be.
Stephen
Level 8 User

Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 278

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:13 am

the_chunkster wrote:
I would stay well clear pc chips motherboards


Agreed
Wicked Neo
FCS Event Manager

Joined: 04 Jan 2005
Posts: 3680

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:49 am

i am currently pricing up for my new pc

so far

Sapphire PURE Innovation Gruper Radeon Xpress 200P (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-001-SP) £114.95

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail £132.95

HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £199.95

2x Corsair 2GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x1GB) £209.90

2x Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 160GB 6V160E0 SATA-II 8MB Cache - £95.90

not decided on a soundcard yet

but thats a system with an x1800 and 4gb of ram for £900 (incl vat)
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