Need Computer Techy 'wordy' people

[Corpfox]

Quote[/b] ]XFX GeForce FX 5600 256MB DDR Video Card System Requirements Pentium 3, AGP 2.0 or +, 128MB Video Memory 256MB DDR

Quote[/b] ]ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB AGP Video Card System Requirements Installation Requires CD-ROM Drive Video Memory 256MB

I'm sure most of you 'techy's' know what they are, soo...

How fast is 'DDR'?
GeForce vs Radeon? Who would win? Who would win with low specs cpus?
What is and how does 'AGP' work?
AGP vs PCI, which is better?
Would any of those cards work on a 633 mhz celeron?

Quote[/b] ]80GB 7200RPM Hard Drive

Is that fast? How so? Faster better?

Quote[/b] ]Intel© Pentium© 4 Processor 2.53GHz With 533MHz System Bus

What does the 'System Bus' mean?

Quote[/b] ]...With Hyper Threading Technology

What does that suppose to mean?

Quote[/b] ]- Up to 56Mbps data transfer
- 5x faster than 802.11b

How fast is '56Mbps'? Whats a '802.11b'?

Quote[/b] ]256MB PC2700DDR Memory

What is 'PC2700'?

Laptops with Wireless B, Wireless G, What is the difference? Faster than '56Mbps' and/or '802.11b'?

Wireless Router good on wired and better on wireless? or other way around?

Quote[/b] ]0.21mm dot pitch, 0.25mm dot pitch, 450:1, 500:1 high contrast ratio

How great is that on a monitor?

Xeon and Dual Xeon only for hosting servers?
How good is 'Xeon'?

Quote[/b] ]DFI LANParty Motherboard
Supports:
Advanced CMOS Reloaded overclocking functionality, Intel Pentium 4 or Athlon XP processor, Intel 865PE/IC5 or NVIDIA nForce 2 Ultra 400/MCP-T chipset, 900MHz FSB for 865PE and 400MHz FSB for NFII ULTRA B, Dual Channel DDR400/333/266, AGP 8X, SATA, SATA RAID, 5 PCI, USB 2.0, 6ch AC'97 & S/PDIF, LAN,/394.

WHAT DOES THAT ALL MEAN!?

 

[Que Pasa]

To answer your wireless router question, 802.11b is a networking standard protocol, much in the same way 3G is a cell phone protocol. It's standard so that all companys, like belkin, and linksys, can make products that can be used together.

802.11b's theoretical transfer rate is 11mbps, about 4-5x that of a regular broadband connection. 802.11g stepped it up a bit, to 54mbps. mbps stands for megabits per second, not to be confused with megabytes. Divide the number of megabits by 8 to get the resulting number of megabytes to be transferd per second.

Wireless routers usually have 4 standard ethernet jacks on them, capable of transferring at 100mbps, twice as fast as 802.11g. So it's actually going to be faster if you go wired, than wireless. Wireless is great for surfing the web, but for transfering files you're going to want to go wired if possible.

An 80GB 7200 RPM drive is normal by today's standards, but it isn't slow in the least.

Xeons are for hosting servers, they don't get as great of performance for gaming.

Someone else want to tackle something?

 

[Kidan]

System bus -- is basically a travel system for commands from and to your cpu. the faster the system bus, the faster your cpu gets and sends commands.

hyper-threading -- just a pretty word to impress the computer geeks.

AGP - Advanced Graphics Protocal (if memory serves) it's a type of slot similar to PCI designed for video cards, it's faster, and more stable than PCI, although PCI2 is about to be released (sometime in the next year or so) which will blow AGP out of the water.


now as for whether either of the cards listed at top would work with a 633 celeron, the top one would not as it requires a pentium 3 based processor (and if memory serves a 633 celeron is a pentium 2)

On the HDD, the 72000 RPM is fairly standard as Que said, but of course the higher rpm you have the better. RPM stands for Revolutions per Minute. and the faster the HDD revolves, the quicker the data comes around for reading. HDD's work similar to a LP. It's a big circle, with the data laid out in sequence around it. As the HDD reads, it reads sequentially, the problem is the data is not going to necessarily be in sequence on the HDD. Since the HDD only revolves one way, it has to travel from where it's reading all the way to the next spot to read. The faster the RPM, the faster it gets there.

 

[Corpfox]

Quote[/b] ](and if memory serves a 633 celeron is a pentium 2)

No wonder celeron's are super cheap, shucks.

I guess the missed 2 questions are what they are, ok...thanks, que pasa and kidan.

I doubt I'll get all those 'new' hardware, what a didley shame.

 

[Plankeye]

In terms of video cards, processor requirements can be misleading as they are typically there for the software that comes bundled with with the card. So you could most likely run that Geforce on your system. It should make CS a lot smoother but newer games like the upcoming Half Life 2 will run horrid because the processor/memmory is not upto snuff. You can always take a look at sites like Futuremark to see what video cards gamers are running on their rigs to get an idea of what video cards may work out on your box.

 

[Corpfox]

So mainly some video cards can run with my, low specs, mainly. But yeah, HL2 no freaking way. Unlike your (no offense) "God-Like" Specs. But I guess it was well worth it with your budget you had, heh, millionaires.

 

[mrpopdrinker]

Quote[/b] (Corpfox @ Mar. 16 2004,2:23)]So mainly some video cards can run with my, low specs, mainly. But yeah, HL2 no freaking way. Unlike your (no offense) "God-Like" Specs. But I guess it was well worth it with your budget you had, heh, millionaires.

Forgive me if I missed it but what kind of video card are you running? Depending on what it is you may want to wait to upgrade your card and go for the motherboard/processor and depending if your current ram will work with a new motherboard get new ram as well.

 

[Corpfox]

32 mb nvidia tnt 2 pci

cheap & awful of its class, if you were going to say that, mrpopdrinker.

192 ram
633 mhz celeron (For 3 years and count, tough guy/big shot)

 

[mrpopdrinker]

Quote[/b] (Corpfox @ Mar. 16 2004,8:53)]32 mb nvidia tnt 2 pci

cheap & awful of its class, if you were going to say that, mrpopdrinker.

192 ram
633 mhz celeron (For 3 years and count, tough guy/big shot)

Corpfox I had a video card worse than that for awhile. To be honest if you are going to buy something I would suggest a new motherboard and processor. A little more RAM (and as I said earlier you may have to get new ram anyway) wouldent hurt either. It is up to you but that is my suggestion.

 

[Tromos]

Quote[/b] (Kidan @ Mar. 15 2004,7:44)]HDD's work similar to a LP.

I don't know the average age on this forum, Kidan, but that statement may have caused more confusion than not. You do realize that the kids graduating high school this year were born in 1986-1987. That means they've never known a world without the compact disk and may, for the life of them, have no idea what an "LP" is.

Just thought I'd share that

 

[Kidan]

*sighs*

yes, the concept of an LP is me showing my advanced age....:laugh:

but hey, they DO sound better than CD's...

 

[Corpfox]

...too bad EVD's are coming out, ha.

It's 6x better than DVD's but 3 times more expensive.