Christine I built a new PC earlier on this year, similar specs to your purchase, but unlike you I opted to use Vista Ultimate (£100 for the OEM version). and also 2 x 350Gb Ide drives & 2 x 350 gb sata drives.
I used the "C" drive from my old XP-Pro PC as slave and moved stuff across as required. I then backed up my old "C" drive to an external drive and did a reformat. This drive as now been placed in storage just in case.
So now my PC which is a dual core Athlon Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (2.8GHz) Socket AM2 2MB L2 Cache (2x1MB) with 4 x 350gb drives. with 4Gb ram.
Now the point of my response just like XP, Vista 32bit will not recognise 4Gb ram, in my case only 3326 mb. But I feel that two matched pairs of ram are giving me a faster PC than just 3 sticks of ram, but this is marginal.
My PC also whizzes along, making CS2 and Lightroom a real pleasure to use.
Last edited by wolfie; 08-11-07 at 15:22.
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