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I guess I want to spend less than Gateway or Dell would charge but enough to have a balls to the wall system. Ill be using it for audio and video editing and gaming. My old machine will be my music storage/internet surfer.
So far I have been looking at a Soyo P4I Socket 478 Motherboard with Pentium4 2.2 GHz Processor here are some of the specs....
Intel® NetBurst™ Micro-architecture
400-MHz System Bus
512-KB L2 Advanced Transfer Cache
Hyper-Pipelined Technology
Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
Rapid Execution Engine
128-Bit Floating Point Port
SIMD 128-bit Integer
Execution Trace Cache
Advanced Dynamic Execution
Thermal Monitoring
Built-in Self Test (BIST)
IEEE 1149.1 Standard Test Access Port and Boundary Scan
The Motherboard can be upgraded with a 3.06Mhz P4 @ 400Mhz FSB. (by the way can anyone explain what a front side bus is) Plus it'll hold up to 2 gigs of DDR SDRAM.
I am assuming I will need a 400W power supply. And how important is it that I have a seperate cooling fan for my processor?
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