i am thinking about upgrading my computer to something faster. i am going to keep my hard drives, my video card and my optical drives. the rest is going to be new. but i need some advice since this is my first pc build n all. http://www.tigerdirect.com/cgi-bin/ShoppingCart.asp here is what i am going to buy. Is it worth putting together? please feel free to comment good or bad. i kno i posted this thread in the cpu,mobo etc. forum i just want some opinions. don't b mad plz i didn't kno which forum to post in.........

There is nothing in that cart. No way to give you an opinoin.

In other words only you can see that cart. No one else can.

ok so sorry my bad here is the txt file. sorry its hard to read! my apologies. here is the right file everyone can see

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This is a minimal system. i work on a lot of minimal systems so if you are lucky... all may work fine

well i have the hard drives, video card and optical drives to put in the computer. i do alot of video encoding so i was looking for a good processor. will that do or do i need to find a bigger cpu? this will b my first computer build so....... What do you mean by minimal system?

Motherboard baby, motherboard... Minimal...

well i am on a low budget. and i don't want a huge computer. would that what i am looking at be ok to encode video? because i need a good processor for that. any suggestions would help.

Some recommendations:

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Black Edition Processor - Retail - $87 + free shipping
• ABIT AN52V AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 520 MCP ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail - $54.99 after rebate + free shipping
• CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail - $31 + free shipping
  
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• Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 Allendale 2.4GHz 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail - $119.99 + free shipping
• GIGABYTE GA-G31M-S2L LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail - $64.99 + $7.59 shipping
• CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail - $31 + free shipping

The AMD kit is cheaper, but less powerful than the Intel one. Go for the Intel system if your budget allows, otherwise go with the AMD system. Both are much better than your original proposed build.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

Thank you very much!! i will let you kno when i get it built. Thanks for your time!!