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I only research this stuff when it's time to build a new computer and it's been (don't laugh) 2 or 3 years, so it's way past time. I don't have a lot of spare cash now, so I'd like to keep it to only what I need it to do for now since in a few months, I'll be making a mac daddy computer for real data crunching. But first, this one needs to churn through a few hundred thousand records in MS Access without bogging down.
I was thinking:
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
512 MB RAM
40 GB HD
Questions:
What mobo - I don't want to get the DDR SDRAM for cost reasons, so I don't need one that will take it.
I'm not planning on doing any gaming, so I was hoping I could keep my PCI video card - will that work on new mobos or are pci and AGP mutually exclusive?
Thanks,
Ted
I was thinking:
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
512 MB RAM
40 GB HD
Questions:
What mobo - I don't want to get the DDR SDRAM for cost reasons, so I don't need one that will take it.
I'm not planning on doing any gaming, so I was hoping I could keep my PCI video card - will that work on new mobos or are pci and AGP mutually exclusive?
Thanks,
Ted