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I have still been looking around for a new computer and have found one, but...it is a pentium 4, not an amd athlon, but will these specs stand up to most amd athlons? cheers guys

here it is: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3000-MHZ-INTEL...QQcmdZViewItem

Hi,

This cpu can stand up against an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ I think, since this cpu is 3Ghz, and has hypertrading, AND its a prescott, wich is pretty cool!!! Another pro on this system is that its including a TFT monitor. One of the major buts on this one is that it has an AGP video slot, and no PCI-E (at least thats what I concluded from the site) so you will not be able to use a faster PCI-E card if you want to expand later.

Greetz,

RubenTC

what is a PCI-E exactly, also from the facts would you know how much RAM i could upgrade to. Thanks

no sorry, i got confused, yeah cos i wanna be able to use a faster PCI, it says it has 3 PCI slots and also an AGP, that will let me expand wont it

is a PCI slot different to a PCI-E slot?

Yes, a PCI slot is different from a PCI-E (PCI-Express) slot. PCI is slow, and for all sorts of cards (sound, lan, old videocards) and PCI-E is for the newest videocards. So Id recommend having a PCI-E slot, instead of an AGP slot.

Greetz,

RubenTC

oh ok, thanks, but i have now seen this computer,looks amazing, good specs aswell, but seeing as i dont know a great deal about some of the things that are good and some of things that are bad, can some1 else tell me if it is worth getting? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-ATHLON-64-...QQcmdZViewItem