Well, I recently upgraded from a crappy Intel Pentium III 1ghz on a board with a 100mhz front side bus and 382 Megs of PC100 memory to a badass board that supports up to an AMD Athlon 2800. Right now I'm running 1 Gig of DDR PC2100 RAM and an AMD Athlon 2200 running at 1.8 Ghz with a 133 mhz front side bus with clock doubling technology, taking it up to 233 mhz
However, I'm still running the crappy 64 meg PCI video card that I was running on the other board. It's an ATI Radeon 7000 with DVI input and TV Out. Yesterday I ordered a NVIDIA Geforce 6200 with 256 Megs of RAM and a DVI input and TV Out. It's AGP 4x/8x, so now I'll have a much better framerate when I play halo online >.> For those of you who are curious, for my primary hard drive, I have an 80 gig EIDE drive, partitioned into one 60 meg partition for windows, and a 20 gig partition for my Ubuntu partition. My secondary is a 320 gig drive partitioned into a 127 gig partition and a 170 gig partition. If you're wondering why it's in two partitions and it's a secondary drive, it's basically because I originally bought it when the first main drive went out and had it as my primary. Windows XP won't read partitions over 127 gigs unless you have Service Pack 2 installed and the copy of XP I have is kind of old so it doesn't install SP2 on installation. I know I could merge the partitions and blah blah blah, but 1) I don't want to lose data and 2) I'm too lazy to do it.
Bottom line is, I'm gettin a new video card! YAY FOR MEEE!
Oh yeah, the case I have this all in is was made in 1998 so it's BARELY an ATX case *cough* I have to keep one of the front bays open and stick a fan on it just to keep it cool xD.
You're not on AIM. I was gonna break it down for you in bite size chunks too. There should totally be a geek board on here.
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