I just put my 6th computer together yesterday and am very displeased with the results. The installation went smooth apart from some difficulty attaching the heat sink and fan for the CPU. It took a little more force than I am used to but I don't believe I damaged any components in the process. I originally used two sticks of Transcend 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM ECC Registered DDR 266 memory but after a failure to initiate the POST I switched the sticks out for one of the sticks mentioned below in the specs. The computer currently has 2 IDE hard drives, one 20gb system drive and one 60gb data drive. I installed a brand new authentic copy of WinXP home edition and was quite dissatisfied at the speed in which it installed. It didn't improve from there. The computer is extremely sluggish and I have a very unhappy customer. I would like to blame it on the lack of memory (only 256mb) but I don't think that is the biggest problem. I would like to think the combination of components I used would produce a relatively fast machine. The system seems pretty stable. No crashes, POST errors, or anything of that nature. Any hints on how I should go about speeding this computer up? Is the problem because of faulty parts or poor compatibility?
Specs (Desc. from Newegg)
JUST PC 706ATXBK Case 550W ATX12V P4 SATA Power Supply
Kingston ValueRAM 256MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
ASUS Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-R 32X CD-RW 52X CD-ROM
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor
ASUS A8N-VM CSM Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
PS: I will gladly post more information on request.
TIA.
~Dan
Specs (Desc. from Newegg)
JUST PC 706ATXBK Case 550W ATX12V P4 SATA Power Supply
Kingston ValueRAM 256MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
ASUS Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-R 32X CD-RW 52X CD-ROM
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor
ASUS A8N-VM CSM Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
PS: I will gladly post more information on request.
TIA.
~Dan