Re: Motherboard, CPU recommendations please
- From: Nigel Wade <nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:57:19 +0000
Ian Pollard wrote:
The title says it all. I would like to upgrade my present hardware but
realise that there have been a few developments since my last build. I
have an ABIT NF7-S mobo with an AMD Athlon 3000+ CPU. I have 1 GB of
DDR 333 RAM and two hard drives, Maxtor 80GB and Western Digital 120GB
both IDE drives. I have one CDRW and one DVD RW drives plus an HP SCSI
DAT drive and a SCSI slide scanner. I use my PC for digital
photographic editing with Photoshop CS, music editing with Goldwave,
WP with MS Office and surf the Internet using Firefox and Outlook for
my e-mail. I would like the option to install Vista when it has been
around a little longer. I have a number of USB devices connected
including printer, flatbed scanner, MP3 player etc etc. I also have a
printer connected via Firewire. I use a wireless/LAN router and have
it connected to a LAN port on my PC. I really need to retain my SCSI
PCI card and at present am using AGP graphics in the form of Nvidia
Geforce 5200 with 128MB RAM. I need to do this job as reasonably as
possible and would like to upgrade where feasible. Your input would be
appreciated.
Ian
The first question I would ask is why you feel the need to upgrade? Is it really
worth it? Just upgrading the CPU and MB will be problematic. Keeping the same
memory, APG graphics and IDE devices will severely limit what you can do.
One option is to go the same way I have and get a C2D and a Asrock Dual-VSTA MB
which supports both AGP and PCIe graphics, DDR and DDR II memory and also has 2
IDE channels. That way you can keep your current graphics/memory/HD and upgrade
those when you feel the need (i.e. when you install Vista ;-)).
There is very little choice if you want to keep your IDE and AGP devices...
--
Nigel Wade
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