Shoutbox

They are expansion slots like PCI (and ISA). The x16 slot is 16 times faster than regular PCI, and will (most likely) be used for your graphics card. The x1 slot gives the same speed as a regular PCI slot, but is grouped with the other PCI-E slots, not the PCI slots, on the connections to everything else (someone please explain this better, I can't remember the terms).

to quote the wonderful Wiki:

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Originally posted by Wikipedia
The PCIe link is built around a bidirectional, serial (1-bit), point-to-point connection known as a "lane"

At the electrical level, each lane utilizes two unidirectional low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) pairs at 2.5 gigabaud. Transmit and receive are separate diff-pairs, for a total of 4 data wires per lane.

A connection between any two PCIe devices is known as a "link", and is built up from a collection of 1 or more lanes. All devices must minimally support single-lane (x1) links. Devices may optionally support wider links composed of 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, or 32 lanes. This allows very good compatability, in two ways. A PCIe card will physically fit (and work correctly) in any slot that is at least as large as it is (e.g. an x1 card will work in an x4 or x16 slot), and a slot of a large physical size (e.g. x16) can be wired electrically with fewer lanes (e.g. x1 or x8; however it must still provide the power and ground connections required by the larger physical slot size). In both cases, the PCIe link will negotiate the highest mutually supported number of lanes.

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

what i take from that is that the x1 means it has 1 lane open, and the x16 means it has 16 open, etc etc?

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Originally posted by Madman
if you want to install lots of stuff then you will find 40gb might be a bit small.

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I'm surviving on 16 GB, and its only just over half full. I only have two games on there ATM though .

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Originally posted by rav0
I'm surviving on 16 GB, and its only just over half full. I only have two games on there ATM though .

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omg i would DIE!! i use about 30GB of my 80GB harddrive. some of it can probably be deleted though... programs/games i dont use anymore. but still, that's tiny

*lordy remembers when he had a 6GB HDD for a short time (the other one died ) i was ready to throw the computer out the window

Plain and simple, AMD all the way everytime !!!

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Originally posted by lordy16

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Originally posted by rav0
I'm surviving on 16 GB, and its only just over half full. I only have two games on there ATM though .

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omg i would DIE!! i use about 30GB of my 80GB harddrive. some of it can probably be deleted though... programs/games i dont use anymore. but still, that's tiny

*lordy remembers when he had a 6GB HDD for a short time (the other one died ) i was ready to throw the computer out the window

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Actually I'm using about 160 GB of 200 GB on this computer, but the Windows partition is 16 GB with all the programs and games on it.

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Anywho msg_plus_freak it looks like you've settled on an AMD processor, but shouldn't the title of this thread be something like "building new computer"?

Yer but the original thing was weather i should get an intel or adm

It's AMD not adm. PS you can edit the first post in this thread and change the title (unless this thread dies and my reply becomes useless here).

Ok done it

This is a rule of life:

AMD > Intel