Originally posted by johnwilliams474:
Originally posted by WestCoastAjax:
Purchase from a store close to you. Stuffing Computer parts in a box for shipping is time consuming and expensive.
Min
Pentium 4 running at 2.5 or higher
Motherboard that CAN take 1 meg or More of RAM
Windows XP home
USB 2.0 High Speed
Firewire
Power supply 400 Watts - 450 Watts
512 k of RAM installed
Hard drive - 100 Gig - Video files are large
DVD burner - they are so cheap now and they still do CD's
Sound Card - Creative Audigy 2
Video card - Thats a tough one - todays card will serve well for Media systems, let your pocket book decide
Monitor - Flat panel - the thin one, CTR's a so BIG in back
Software
Start with the stuff that comes with the machine, and upgrade/purchase as you see a need in the area you use the most.




i shurly hope by meg you mean gig
pentium 4 is a 32 bit prossessor
the next version of windows will be 64bit






I am sure he meant gigs, oh master of the obvious

Yes, P4 is 32 bit, so?

The 64bit ver of windows is out already, thats how the AMD64 is able to be run.


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