@uzi
No he will take advantage of it because the motherboard supports RAM frequency up to 711mhz. On the 1106 mhz bus (extreme edition intel) you can run the memory at 711mhz. On the 800mhz bus like that processor the memory can run at 600mhz stock without overclocking. (DDR2-700/675/667). See link.
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/qvl/P5AD2-E_DDR2_QVL.pdf
So he will be taking a lot of advantage from the DDR2 RAM plsu that motherboard has PAT and HyperPath2 which a $110 motherboard will not.
Also what x800 are you going to get for $210? Some crap I will tell you. The cheapest x800 that is actually good is the x800 xl for like $270.
Also 2 HD's is a lot faster than one and will help out all over the place, spyware scans, loading and transferring files,etc.
You are thinking too much in gaming terms, the guy wants a working machine not a gaming machine, and "no badass video card". So basically everything you just said is for gaming and not working.
@jnev, you are way overbudget.
No he will take advantage of it because the motherboard supports RAM frequency up to 711mhz. On the 1106 mhz bus (extreme edition intel) you can run the memory at 711mhz. On the 800mhz bus like that processor the memory can run at 600mhz stock without overclocking. (DDR2-700/675/667). See link.
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/qvl/P5AD2-E_DDR2_QVL.pdf
So he will be taking a lot of advantage from the DDR2 RAM plsu that motherboard has PAT and HyperPath2 which a $110 motherboard will not.
Also what x800 are you going to get for $210? Some crap I will tell you. The cheapest x800 that is actually good is the x800 xl for like $270.
Also 2 HD's is a lot faster than one and will help out all over the place, spyware scans, loading and transferring files,etc.
You are thinking too much in gaming terms, the guy wants a working machine not a gaming machine, and "no badass video card". So basically everything you just said is for gaming and not working.
@jnev, you are way overbudget.