ok i know how much hardware question threads suck, but if any of you know anything which will help me i'll greatly appreciate it.
im looking at buying the ASUS A7N8X/Deluxe motherboard, this is where the problems begin;
firstly it uses an nvidia nforce2 chipset, i was planning on using a radeon 9600xt as my graphics card would this be an issue? would i get better performance if i used a Geforce graphics card ? and what is the rough equivalent of the 9600 ?
secondly, i know very very little about ram; i want one gig of ram, but am unsure what to get full stop, all this ddr sd ram stuff makes no sence to me whatsoever.
2 x 512 would be the cheaper option, but is it worthwhile getting a single 1 gig strip of ram? can i even run a pc with just one strip of ram ? if i can obviously this would be best for upgrading in the future, but ive also heard stories of the nforce 2 getting better performance of paired ram or something ?
all in all i need some help badly...
thanks.
im looking at buying the ASUS A7N8X/Deluxe motherboard, this is where the problems begin;
firstly it uses an nvidia nforce2 chipset, i was planning on using a radeon 9600xt as my graphics card would this be an issue? would i get better performance if i used a Geforce graphics card ? and what is the rough equivalent of the 9600 ?
secondly, i know very very little about ram; i want one gig of ram, but am unsure what to get full stop, all this ddr sd ram stuff makes no sence to me whatsoever.
2 x 512 would be the cheaper option, but is it worthwhile getting a single 1 gig strip of ram? can i even run a pc with just one strip of ram ? if i can obviously this would be best for upgrading in the future, but ive also heard stories of the nforce 2 getting better performance of paired ram or something ?
all in all i need some help badly...
thanks.