questions about pc build

......Some of my components arrived via USPS. One thing...I went for highest percentage alcohol I could find and that turned out to be 91%. If that isn't of sufficient strength I will replace it.

Here is the RAM and HDD. I mistakenly thought the HDD was a WD Black. It is a WD Blue.

KR,
Bruce

......It has been a few days, but I finally went in and cleaned up the CPU. I tried, but couldn't take a very good image to post that was clear enough to decipher the legend. Got out the ol' spyglass and did it by hand.

I'll list everything I got in order from the top to bottom

• Intel '06 QX9650
• Intel Core2 Extreme
• SLAWN MALAY
• 3.00GHZ/12M/1333/05B
• L806B336

I hope this is ok.

KR,
Bruce

......The CPU #'s again, from top to bottom:

• Intel '05 Q6600
• Intel Core2 QUAD
• SLACR MALAY
• 2.40GHZ/8M/1066/05A
• L808B266

Cheers,
KR
Bruce

......Thanks for the comment. I will go with the extreme.

Now, back to video/graphic cards. I can get the following card, from ebay, new old stock, for $21. That fits my budget. Will it be sufficient for WIN 7 ? I can always upgrade later. This isn't a do or die situation, as I have been searching through many sources of different cards. I hope to get one that I can utilize efficiently on this platform. I still have a second hard drive to come up with, so I still have time to shop around.

KR.
Bruce

This is a
1 HD4550 PCI-E Graphics card

New cards, bulk packaging.

ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 Graphics
With all the latest features, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 graphics cards deliver an incredible visual experience with best in class performance. Enjoy unprecedented levels of graphics realism and play the latest games with support for Microsoft DirectX® 10.1. Add this graphics card to your PC and watch Blu-ray movies and HD content play with incredible visual fidelity1, and view digital photos with over 1 billion colors2. Do it all with break-through efficiency that doesn’t compromise performance.

Features & Benefits

• 80 Stream Processing Units provide enough power to tackle demanding games and applications.
• Enhanced Anti-Aliasing (AA) & Anisotropic Filtering (AF) - High performance anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing (4X AA) smooth jagged edges and create true-to-life graphics, for everything from grass to facial features.
• Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p1 display resolution and beyond.3
• Integrated DisplayPort technology4 with audio is an innovative digital solution that supports the latest graphics and LCD technologies.
• The ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 graphics card consumes less than 25 watts under full load, making it the ideal choice for implementation across a large diverse install base of desktop PCs.
• Second generation 55nm chip uses the industry’s most energy efficient manufacturing process.