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Does anyone see any potential problems(crash issues)or incompatibility issues with the following system with regards to loading cmbb or cmak?

Asus p4p 800 deluxe p4 socket 478 motherboard with 800 fsb

pentium4 3ghz cpu 800 fsb 1mb

western digital 80 gig 7200 rpm hard drive

1024mb pc 3200 ddr ram

geforcefx 5700 oc 256 ddr mb

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Should work fine for CM, however:

unless you know what you do, make sure you get a "Northwood" Pentium-4, not a "Prescott" one. Both are available in 3.06 GHz for that mainboard.

The graphics card is very slow, about GeForce 4 class. There is no way it is goign to make use of 256 MB RAM. It will be perfectly fine for CM and 2D but if you want more 3D game bang for the bug you should look into other NVidia cards.

1 GB RAM is more than you need. If you want the speed advantage of dual-channel be sure you have it in two modules.

I banned WD harddrives from my systems although not for entirely rational reasons. I only use Seagate these days, with Fujitsu and Sumsung untried.

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I recently upgraded to "exactly" what you have except for the WD HD and the vid card and all runs perfectly.

I had the WD 80JB for over a year prior to the upgrade and have never had a problem with it.

For the video card I went with a Nvdia 6600 GT which I got from Tiger Direct for $265.00Cdn after rebates. Good card so far.

One thing, make sure you've got a good power supply with some extra headroom.

KC

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Asus p4p 800 deluxe p4 socket 478 motherboard with 800 fsb

(Decent mobo-I got P4C800-E-deluxe)

pentium4 3ghz cpu 800 fsb 1mb

western digital 80 gig 7200 rpm hard drive

(sata-150-8mb-buffer)

1024mb pc 3200 ddr ram

(Corsair XMS-Dual Channel)

NewEgg.com for $99.00-512mb stick)

geforcefx 5700 oc 256 ddr mb

(EVGA or Gainward 5700 Ultra with DDR-3

ram-128mb-about $150.00-170.00)

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