Hi Bao,

I have a similar setup,

Asus P4P800E Deluxe motherboard
Intel P4 2.8E (Prescott, 800Mhz FSB)
1Gb DDR400 (PC3200) RAM (4 sticks)
Maxtor 120Gb ATA-133 disk drive.
ATI Radeon 9600XT All In Wonder video card
Sony DRU-710A 16X dual format dual layer DVD+/-RW drive

I have it overclocked to 3.2Ghz, and I like the system. Very reliable, lots 
of features.

Of course, what the intended use for the system is depends a lot. If it is 
for serious gaming, the 9250 video card probably won't cut it with todays 
games, in that case, I would recommend a 9800 or better. Also, many gamer's 
believe that an AMD platform (like an Athlon 64) is better for games. Now 
if your friend intends to use it for general purpose use, then what you 
listed sounds reasonable to me.


At 10:15 PM 3/1/2005, you wrote:
>Hi to all List members.
>  My friend  would like to buy a computer with configuration:
>   1.Processor: Intel   P4-2.4G/1M/533 S478 Box Prescott
>    2. Seagate 120G,7200,Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus w/NCQ,8M
>buffer,Serial ATA
>    3. Asus P4P800-Deluxe (P4 S-478, Dual  DDR400, i865Ð E, 800MHz, ATX,
>SATA Raid 0,1,0+1, FireWire, 6ch  audio, 3Com Gigabit Lan, Wi-Fi slot)
>
>     4.Kingston DDR2 256M 533MHz Kingston
>   5.Gigabyte ATI Radeon 9250 Gigabyte 128M DDR, 128bit, TV-out, DVI
>   How do you think for choosing like this? Thanks for all the help.
>      Cheers.
>   Bao Tan.

Russ Poffenberger
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