Re: upgrading my pc?
- From: John John <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:59:50 -0300
How serious a gamer are you? Yes, new computers are cheap... unless you want one with guts, then they aren't cheap! $400 boxes are not suitable for gaming and they are generally not very upgradeable if needed at a future date! How much money do you have to spend on a new pc?
John (#2)
John wrote:
thanx for the input.
i'm using it for games, as well as everything you mentioned.
i've got generals; zero hour, and its sort of slowing down.
but i'm thinking of just gettin a new pc, when windows vista comes out? i
wnated to get this upgrade, cos i can get it done really cheap, (e.g. under
£150), but i'm thinking is it worth it, if it wouldnt make a difference.
John
"Touch Base" <bobthehelper_@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's hard to say whether another 512MB of RAM will improve anything for you.
It depends on what types of apps you plan on running. For general stuff like
internet, email, word processing, burning cd's, playing music etc your rig
can easily do that now.
If your going to upgrade your graphics card they start at the low end $70
all the way up to the expensive end. Again depends what you want to do. If
it's general stuff internet, watching DVD's, looking at photo's etc, an ATI
or Nvidia 128MB 9250/9550 series will easily do the job and not blow the
budget.
In the end you are probably better off upgrading the whole box and in doing
so you'll get a faster CPU (probably 3.0Ghz), a larger hard drive (probably
160/200GB), inbuilt network card, new graphics card, plus 1GB of RAM and a
dual layer DVD burner. You can use your 5.1 card and speakers in the new rig
and use your 80GB hard drive as the main disc and use the larger hard drive
as a backup/storage drive or vice versa. Maybe keep you old rig and set it
up as server or something. Buying a box only is pretty cheap these days.
I've seen replacement upgrade boxes as described above go for about $600
"John" <john213@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| hi,
|
| i have a 4 year old computer.
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| it has a pentuin 4- 1.7 ghz,
| 512mb of ram,
| 80gb hd,
| 64 mb gf3 graphics card,
| 5.1 card and speakers.
|
| i was thinking of gettin an upgrade. to;
|
| 1gb of ram,
| another 80gb hd,
| 128 mb gf (dunno which card, any recommendations?)
| network card,
| and dvd-rw
|
| i wanted to know, is it worth gettin an upgrade with my current spec??
| would the processer be able to handle the upgrade? would the graphics be
any
| better? would the processor be able to handle the extra ram?
|
| has any1 got any advice? sites could use?
|
| thanx
|
| john
|
|
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