| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 124025 | 2012-04-01 12:49:00 | Computer - Upgrade or New? | Raewyn (946) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1267875 | 2012-04-02 03:26:00 | Mention the word games in the same sentence as PC and you are usually looking at quite a bit of cash. I think the one from Paradigm would do the job but it's still a very low end machine, pretty much the current equivalent of your old ones but obviously a bit more capable by virtue of being newer. If you try to play any demanding games on it it will still struggle. The safest approach, especially when offering advice remotely, is to go with an intel socket 1155 CPU and discrete graphics card. That way if the machine isn't powerful enough now or at some point in the future you have the best chance of a simple upgrade to fix it. CyaBro will likely have some suggestions when he gets the chance. From www.pp.co.nz a pentium G620, P8H61 MB, 4GB RAM, CM gladiator case + PSU, Windows 7, WD blue 500, samsung DVD, comes to $801 + I think they charge $65 to assemble so that's a bit over your budget. You could take out the graphics card and optical drive and get pretty close to $700 and see how well the integrated one does the job. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1267876 | 2012-04-02 03:48:00 | Or something like this. It includes the ram, CPU and mobo (www.eoneonline.co.nz). All you need is the case / PSU. And hdd if you want to use something else Dont know if that shop is good, never been there |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1267877 | 2012-04-02 05:46:00 | Hmmm....Doesn't sound too bad. Could do with another 4 GB RAM for a bit of future proofing. Other than that sounds good for what you need it for. |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1267878 | 2012-04-02 06:09:00 | Or something like this. It includes the ram, CPU and mobo (www.eoneonline.co.nz). All you need is the case / PSU. And hdd if you want to use something else Add in also the optical drive, OS, and a better PSU, most of the ones that come with cases are cheap junk. and of course costs for someone to build it if you dont want to do it yourself. But as dugimodo mentioned "Mention the word games in the same sentence as PC and you are usually looking at quite a bit of cash." Cheap and gaming dont g together to well. Like today had someone ring me up wanting a "good powerful" graphic card for gaming, but didn't want to pay any more than $100, what could he get .:groan: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1267879 | 2012-04-02 08:15:00 | But the BigFish games are not too taxing .... maybe the builtin video that dugimodo linked to is ok it is a Dual Core CPU (not Celeron) :confused: Or add in a $300 video card. The motherboard et al .. maybe old technology but if the OP isn't gonna keep upgrading it and it suits their use ....... I gather for many people on this forum, they just ditch the motherboard when they do an upgrade with CPU et al ... | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1267880 | 2012-04-02 08:27:00 | Trouble is some people buy underpowered PC's and expect to get great performance - Seen it happen to many times to count, buy a new PC,wont spend a few dollars more to get something decent to start with , then are disappointed when it wont do or does it badly what they want. Nothing worse than a under powered PC struggling to do what you want after spending your money. Nothing wrong with upgrading current equipment, but I have also seen people spend money on New more powerful CPU's to suit the old board, a few months down the track the board blows, and you cant get a replacement - so the money spent on the new CPU is a total waste as it wont fit the newer boards. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1267881 | 2012-04-02 22:13:00 | Thank you for all your responses; they have helped immensely. Computer One that I mentioned in the first post actually belonged to my Dad and he has now bought the computer that dugimodo mentioned from Paradigm PC's. Now my step-mum is wanting a laptop for emails, web surfing, skype, etc. She doesn't really play games but my Dad has downloaded a couple of games from BigFish for her that she might like to put on the new laptop but doesn't know if she will ever play them - lol. I was wondering if the following are a good buy and which would be better or if you know of better deals elsewhere? Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420 $803.85 shopap.lenovo.com ASUS A54C-SX138V Notebook $559.30 (used "click & collect" before offer ended last night) Cat#: DSNZ_XC8158 www.dicksmith.co.nz 77949&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=282574488364461&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395182617&CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673649988 |
Raewyn (946) | ||
| 1267882 | 2012-04-03 00:05:00 | Hope he's happy with it, I'm always nervous when people buy something on my reccomendations. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1267883 | 2012-04-04 02:18:00 | He loves it and is surprised how fast and QUIET the new computer is compared to his old one - lol. My step-mum ended up getting the asus notebook which was bigger than she thought and loves it. I just need to reformat it for her to get rid of all the bloatware that has come with it. Thank you all again for your assistance. I hadn't kept up with up-to-date info on hardware spec's for computers so your help was invaluable. :-) |
Raewyn (946) | ||
| 1267884 | 2012-04-04 03:59:00 | I just need to reformat it for her to get rid of all the bloatware that has come with it. Assume you have the windows 7 DVD, along with all the drivers needed ? If you were to use a recovery DVD, it will be a waste of time, as that will put back all the original factory data and programs, if you use a windows 7 DVD you will also lose the free starter edition of Office 2010 if you wanted to use that. Thats not something the public can download even though its free with New PC's, it has to come / be pre-installed by the Supplier/ OEM builder. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1 2 3 | |||||