Hard Drive And Video Card

ldr

will i be able to use this hard drive ULTRA DMA hard drive (7200rpm) on this bundle

Upgrade Kit AMD AM2 Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Mainboard, 1024MB, PCI-Express, VGA

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=321080

and this video card?

NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 5500 256MB VIDEO MEMORY

THANK YOU

Blazer

not if you plan on using dvd's on that board. You won't be able to run both.
It's a Sata 1 board and you should consider ordering Sata drives.
I don't know why you're getting such a cheap motherboard when you're getting an AMD X2 5000 processor. Would try and get a better board even for around the €100 mark at least.
No point splashing out on a top processor and ram and getting a crappy motherboard.
If you plan on gaming I'd skip that particular video card and go for a X1800XT or 7800/7900GS.

ldr

i know the motherboard isnt great and the video card but im trying to use as much as i can from my pc witch is this:

HP Pavilion t680.uk Photosmart PC
Operating system Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
Processor AMD Athlon™ 64 3200+
2.0GHz, 1600MHz bus speed, Level 2 cache 1024KB
NVIDIA® nForce™3 chipset
Memory 1GB DDR-SDRAM
2 DIMM sockets
Max. memory : 2GB
Storage 200GB Ultra DMA hard drive (7200rpm)
incl. 5GB partition for system recovery
DVD drive 16x max.
HP DVD writer +RW 8x double layer
9in1 memory card reader
Communication High speed 56K modem
10/100BT network interface
Video NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5500
256MB video memory
Sound 6 channel surround sound ready
(Speakers provided with Monitors)
Ports & Expandability 5 expansion bays
1 AGP
3 PCI (1 PCI free)
5 USB 2.0 ports (1 in front)
2 Firewire-IEEE-1394 (1 in front)
1 parallel port
1 serial port
Front Audio
TV Out; Front analogue video connectors


i wont be using for gaming its mostly for video thank you for your help

8T8

Your graphics card isn't compatible it uses AGP newer motherboards use PCI-e.

Get one of these for basic usage - no gaming.

ldr

by the looks of it im going to be well over my 500 euro budget

Damm :eek:

Anti

ldr wrote:

by the looks of it im going to be well over my 500 euro budget

Damm :eek:

Why dont you just get a socket 939 x2 3800+

2gb of corsair value ram.

A decent graphics card.

And keep what you have left over. It would be alot cheaper

Mutant_Fruit

A Core2Duo is faster than an Amd X2 3800+ and pretty much the same price as it. If you're dead set on the AMD route, at the very least go socket AM2 as socket939 is a dead end route.

Super expensive motherboards and ram make no sense unless you're an overclocker.