| Steven, in that case, provdiing your motherboard will surport it, try to get 400mhz, pc3200 ram. As john says best to google graphics card reviews and have a read, i will write a tut at some point but im doing XP system first.
john, FAT32 partitioning is fine for stock windows use but an XP install on FAT32 wont be as quick as an NTFS drive! This is obviously much more noticable in games.
Also depends what games your playing as silent thunder doesnt have very high specs like bf2. EG: the 6200 wouldnt run BF2 at 640*480, let alone 1024*768. BF2 players are known for having top end pcs, and for good reason. I have the 6600GT overclocked to 600mhz clock and 1.1ghz mem and i can just about play it on meduim. If i turn AA up to say 4X, things get really iffy with FPS dropping below 40!
Its these sort of demands that make NTFS important as, with less than 2gb of 400+ ram you will get some hardcore hdd thrashing, and as textures in BF2 are very large the only way to store them is mem/hdd so thus fat32 would slow this process down, thus reducing your FPS.
Obviously if your playing lower end games, just using word, etc etc one would never see the difference. Although the compression on FAT32 drives isnt as good as NTFS is for database and spreadsheet acess.
*jumps out of techy mode* Yet again i hope i made sense there...
EDIT_ part one of pc tuning is up :-)
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