Re: PC Upgrade recommendations
- From: Geek Dad <morvak@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:50:23 -0800 (PST)
On Nov 29, 5:52 pm, "John Brown" <J...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As its about 5 years since last upgrade and now out of touch with what's
what I'm seeking any recommendations.
Is 5 years the standard? heheh it's always 5 years for me it seems and
whenever there's a thread like this it always seems to be the same
timeframe.
=)
Not a big gamer but would like an up-to-date reasonably high end system for
e-mail, internet, general office processes together with photo and some
video work and not too worried about the costs.
My current system is AMD Athlon 2500 Barton. Existing Screen and Power
Supply etc will be ok.
Thought I'd invest in something like:-
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L
I recommend the ASUS P5Q Pro.
Graphics card - Have a Sapphire 9600xt 128mb - Wondering if to invest in AMD
ATI Radeon HD 4850 512mb
Definitely. Good choice. Get Visiontek's - comes with lifetime
warranty.
Memory - 2 (or perhaps 4) GB 800Mhz Corsair
2 GB is plenty, but I would buy Vista Home Premium 64-bit OEM For $100
and then 2x2GB's of RAM since it's really cheap right now.
Hard Drive - Wetern Digital Caviar 640GB 7200 RPM
I prefer Seagate Barracuda 7200.xx
Operating system - Have XP - Wondering if to invest in Vista Home 64
Yup, Vista Home Premium 64-bit + 4GB's of RAM is sweet bliss.
Corsair 520HX PSU.
Acrtic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro over the stock HSF that comes with the
CPU for added longevity and in case you ever want to overclock when
the system gets older (thus the other reason for the ASUS P5Q Pro).
.
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