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OfflinePDU
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Which computer is better?
    #7539201 - 10/20/07 12:52 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Im buying a computer from a friend for low cost, as he needs money to pay for his new laptop.

Heres the specs:

perAMD 4000+ Processor w/ 450 Watt power supply
Gigabyte GAK8NSC Motherboard
1 Gig DDR Ram PC 3200
16* DVD Burner
Keyboard
Windows xp
300 gig Hard Drive
Radeon X800XL Video Card


And currently i have this: (dont know jack about computers.)


3200+ AMD athelon XP processor

512mb DDR SDRAM memory

DVD RW/CD RW

48x cdrom drive
integrated graphics and 64mb shared video memory
Processor speed 2.20ghz, 512kb, L2 cache, 400mhz, front side bus.


Im going to sell one of them to my roommate and keep my monitor. Which should i keep?


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Re: Which computer is better? [Re: PDU]
    #7539206 - 10/20/07 12:54 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Well its definitely an upgrade.


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Re: Which computer is better? [Re: PDU]
    #7539208 - 10/20/07 12:55 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

sell the one you currently have.


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Re: Which computer is better? [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7539268 - 10/20/07 01:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

perfect, thats the advice i was looking for.

How can i transfer my photos/mp3's from one to another?


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Re: Which computer is better? [Re: PDU]
    #7539323 - 10/20/07 01:31 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

safe your files to a cd or dvd then they will be backed up


cheers


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Re: Which computer is better? [Re: artist73]
    #7539328 - 10/20/07 01:32 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

damn, so much work.


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Re: Which computer is better? [Re: PDU]
    #7539530 - 10/20/07 02:40 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

or get an exteranl hard drive which is quicker but you should always backup your files to cd/dvd because hard drive can die any moment as ive discovered


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Re: Which computer is better? [Re: artist73]
    #7540536 - 10/20/07 07:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

just slave your current hard drive, so you'll have two disks in the computer, your old one with all your old files, and you new fresh one


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Re: Which computer is better? [Re: Psilobuds]
    #7540544 - 10/20/07 07:34 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I grabbed an external drive today.

Now im booting up my new system, and its asking if i want to start with Window vista Ultimate, or windows xp?

Which is better?


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