Here is my PC.

Pentium D (overclocked at 3.0 GHz)

3 GB of RAM running at 215 Mhz

250GB Seagate SATA HDD

300 Watt PSU (the one that came stock with this HP) so Im assuming its good.

Do you think I can run the HD4850 fine with this PSU. Hopefully being able to max out fans and overclock

I would really like to avoid getting a new PSU. Im all out of money.

Ok so I plan on overclocking my CPU from 2.8 to 3.1 which has been confirmed by many people as completely possible and doable. I also plan on OCing my HD3850 which already runs very hot and will run even hotter after OC.

My PC currently has 3 fans. 1 on the front, 1 on the side and 1 on the back

Which would keep my PC cooler? Leaving the side cover or completely removing it leaving me with one less fan but with fresh air from the outside? Or would it not matter at all?

Oh by the way, Im poor so dont go suggesting to get watercooling :)

See I get these 2 monitors for FREE. Plus I hate LCDs. They have crappy refresh rate even though you cant really notice it and the have crappy resolutions )and fixed res at that= plus I had a Sony LCD once and the freaking pixels died on it after a year. It had 2 white dots on the screen which was anoying and they are to fragile.

A paine in the balls to clean and Im the kind of guy that punches his monitor when his pissed :D

So I should go for the Flat Screen? You cant really notice the low rate when gaming. Only on steady situations like on desktop.

They are both Compaqs.

21in 1600x1200 at 75MHz vs 17in 1600x1200 at 65Mhz

Which one do yuo think offers the greatest image quality. The 75 is much bigger but its round and the 65 is flat but its smaller and has lower refresh rate.

Which one should i get?

So 66 MHz doesnt really make much of a difference when it comes to 1 extra GB huh?

That´s what I thought.

Thnx!

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If that's in your rig right now then they'll all be running at 200MhzRainbow_Lion

Did you even read what I wrote?

Okay so heres my RAM setup:

2x DDR2, PC2-4300 (266 MHz), 1024 MBytes

2x DDR2, PC2-3200 (200 MHz), 512 MBytes

So which one gives better performance? Do the 3GB running at 200MHz make up for the lack of speed of the 2GB running at 266Mhz with more capacity?

Or is it the other way around?

Edit; Should I run 2GB at 266 or 3Gb at 200?

Yeah thats what I thought.

I do have to check on the RAM though. Its 3GB running at 159Mhz. Heres a question:

Should I saty with the 3GB or should I take out some slow RAM to speed up overall RAM speed? Whats better, speed or size?

Nice PC althought they are right. You should have gone for a better GPU. The HD4850 totally beats that 9800GTS and DDR2 to save some money.

Fututre my *ss. That DDR2 can do a great job. Im assuming you got it some nice cooling right?

For $1000 bucks its alright. Could have gotten better deal though.

8/10