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Joe Whinery, AMD Athlon Specialist
Joe's Spreadsheet Build Specs

Best place to learn about AMD's Athlon XP Processor!

1. Excel Spreadsheet Build Specs - Athlon 64 - Print in Landscape Mode (9/14/2004).
   1. If I were Building a System Today... Rev 13 (9/14/2004).
2. Excel Spreadsheet Build Specs - Rev 12 - Print in Landscape Mode (7/12/2004).
3. If I were Building a System Today... Rev 11 (6/1/2004).
4. If I were Building a System Today... Rev 7 by Joe Whinery (5/12/03).
5. Backing up your hard drive with Retrospect - Updated! (11/29/2002).
6. Build Check List (7/31/02).
7. If I were Going to Build a System Today... Rev 4 by Joe Whinery (6/11/2002).
8. Assembling your PC (1/28/2002).
9. Memory Presentation: What’s Happening in the Memory World.
10. DDR vs. Non DDR - RAM Misconceptions.
    

Above are the latest recommendations for a PC Build.  Along with a few necessities:

1. Burn-Proof CD-RW
   

2. CPU speed improvement by 40% to 1400 MHz and now 2600 MHz + DDR333!
   
3. Memory size doubled from 256 MB DDR now to 512 MB DDR - Crucial.com or Kingston.com.
   
4. O/S upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional and now Windows XP Professional.
   
5. Video card upgraded to the ATI Radeon technology. Purchase ONLY "Made by ATI" instead of "Powered by ATI"!

Quality & Speed go Up as Prices continue to Fall!

1. PC System Build Guidelines (5-30-01) - By Joe Whinery.

2. May2001PreBuild Photos Of PC Building Sequence. 

3. Microsoft Office - Converters and Viewers - Microsoft Office.

Contact: Joe Whinery, Contributing Editor