Re: Upgrade Recommendations Please

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:22:05 +0000, noway thoughtfully wrote:

> I fear my harddrive might be dying and I havent upgraded anything in years
> so now is as good a time as any. I've thought about getting a system from
> Dell and have also thought of upgrading certain parts of my current
> homebuilt machine. I'd like to go whichever route is cheapest and right
> now I don't think the deals on Dells website are that great.
>
> Here is what I currently have:
>
> Asus a7a266 motherboard
> 2.0 ghz AMD Athlon processor
> 80 GB western digital harddrive
> 768 PC133 ram
> nVidia Geforce4 Ti4200
> Creative SB Live
> 400w power supply
> 52x CD drive
> 12/32 Plextor CD/RW drive
>
> I have not kept up with the latest hardware so I really have no idea what
> the 'current' stuff is. I will keep my current keyboard, mouse, CD
> drives, case, floppy, and sound card. Here is what I would like to
> purchase to upgrade:
>
> 19" flat panel monitor
> motherboard/processor
> video card - prefer nVidia
> Ram
> Harddrive
>
>
> So what would you all recommend?

Well you're going a long way just to replace an aging hd. Most
new motherboards have onboard 5.1 or 7.1 channel sound and will require
PC2700 or better.

939 motherboard prices are falling so if you're thinking AMD then I'd go
for a 939 mb/cpu combo. For example, an ECS mb with a AMD64 cpu for
basically the price of the AMD64 cpu.

1g of DDR PC2700 can be found starting at $80.

120gb IDEs can be found starting at $70, 160gb at $100.

Your gf4200 should be good enough if you're more
surfer than gamer or audio-video enthusiast.

What do you mean flat panel? Flat screen crt, LCD???





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