Re: Upgrading a PC ? - recommendations please

Adrian wrote:
HI All

My current PC is starting to show it's age - and there was an
unsettling incident with some kind of hard diak error a couple of
weeks ago, that makes me feel that 'soon' might be a good time to
think about a replacement system

This one is a 'bitsa' - assembled & upgraded over the years.
Currently 2.8mhz celeron, 736Mb ram, 80gb hard disk, 250W psu with
noisy fan, small tower case (micro ATX m/b) .....

Usage - browsing, web design & 'paintshopping' - no gaming or anything
like that.

Bought my wife a Dell entry level system last year - it's silent,
fast & reliable - so can't decide whether it's simpler to buy an
'off-the-shelf' unit or biuld from scratch again.

What's the current 'base level' spec - I'm out of touch with today's
specs..?

Many thanks in advance
Adrian - West Cork, Ireland

I would say that "base level spec" these days is an Athlon 64x2 socket AM2
dual-core processor on a USB and fire wire-enabled motherboard running with
at least 1MB RAM and at least 250MB graphics, a 500MB SATA2 hard-drive with
a 16MB cache, and a DVD-RW drive, - running Windows XP Professional SP3.
Bear in mind though that XP "dies" on 30th June so Dell for instance won't
be supplying XP preinstalled from that date, however white-box builders such
as myself and some others in this group can continue to supply XP until Jan
'09.

As far as Dell goes a lot of geeky types would recommend them, as would I
recommend them as one of the better leading manufacturers, second placed to
Kustom Komputa of course. ;)
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