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Topic: New PC

Posted By: huwnet
Subject: New PC
Date Posted: 17 July 2005 at 2:14pm

Here are the specs for my new pc.

Motherboard	ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe	�114.46
PSU	Thermaltake Butterfly Powersupply 480W - Black	�69.99
Case (inc fans)	Thermaltake Xaser III Lanfire VM1000A Black	�73.00
CPU	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Dual Core	�400.00
Memory - 2GB	DDR400	�164.48
Hard Drive2 - 400GB	Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 400GB SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-022-IB)	�176.00
Floppy Drive		�10.00
Graphics Card - 128MB	GeForce 6200 TurboCache 64/256MB PCI-E DVI-I VO	�41.01
Windows OEM	XP Pro x64	�99.00
DVI Cable	Generic	�10.00
Monitor	AG Neovo F419 19" TFT Display Black DVI	�185.00
		�1,342.94

The monitor should be here soon as I have all ready ordered it

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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 17 July 2005 at 4:24pm

You may want to think about backing XP-64 back down to XP-32.
No security tools for XP-64 but many 32 bit viruses will still nail it.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1836843,00.asp - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1836843,00.asp

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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 17 July 2005 at 4:43pm

Interestin article Smile

I dont generally get many viruses and I have a hardware firewall. However I use online scanner as they save buying a decent one. As long as they work I'll be OK