He said its got a SBLive so how will that affect anything?
Even if the motherboard has onboard sound it will be disabled in the bios, and will make ZERO difference to the PC's peformance.
Integrated sound WILL NOT take any ram or resources from the motherboard, it will have its own rom.
Integrated Video will also be disabled on the board and if a decent video card is put in the AGP slot then there will be NO difference between a motherboard with no integrated video and a 9700 and a motherboard with integrated video disabled and a 9700. Get your facts straight.
THeres no reson to get a 128 mb card with 256 mb ram it makes no sense to me. Its useless. You should have just got a 32 mb becuase thats what you are gonna be seeing. If you upgrade your ram more you will see more grafics also
that is completely RUBBISH.
Ram is easy to upgrade on the motherboard (as he asked) its just a case of dropping a extra stick in the available slot.
512mb in this persons case will make little to no difference.
In fact in some benchmarks/situations a PC can run slower with too much ram, despite what logic tells us.
I do CAD, 3D & Photoshop work and run a P4 @ 2.5Gig with only 256mb (albeit at 200mhz) and I never want for more Ram.
In the case of someone using a PC for flightsims, i can categorically state that 512mb will not be needed.
512mb will not see better graphics, I have built many of the fastest machines possible with only 256mb, we are talking 17000+ with 3dmark2001, so by your logic we should add speed with an extra 256mb......I THINK NOT.
I state these things from experience, I have been:
Manager Online PC Retailer building machines for 10years+
IT Manager for large Engineering Firm 10years+
PC enthusiast (as long as I can remember), building & overclocking the fastest machines available.
