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| Thread ID: 114766 | 2010-12-16 04:11:00 | PC Upgrade | sahilcc7 (15483) | Press F1 |
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| 1162401 | 2010-12-16 04:11:00 | I am upgrading an old dead computer for someone . He has this 5 year old Dell which has had a new power supply sometime before . The motherboard has died according to pbtech . I have found some parts which I might just put together and reuse some old parts . This is what I have got: CPU AMD Athlon II X2 260 3 . 2G AM3 ($114) Motherboard Gigabyte MA74GMT-S2 DDR3 ($103) Ram DDR3 1333MHz 2GB Hynix PC ($75) Case iCute Q02-4G ($70) TOTAL = $362 Are all the parts compattible? I am reusing HDD, CD/DVD Drive, Power supply, Monitor . . . etc Will be running windows 7 . Is peformance okay? It will just be for quick web browsing, emails, word processing . . . etc . He has another new one he recently bought : Intel i3, 4gb ram, 500gb hdd What are your ideas on this upgrade? Thanks for the help! |
sahilcc7 (15483) | ||
| 1162402 | 2010-12-16 04:21:00 | The mobo ( . gigabyte . com/products/product-page . aspx?pid=3268#bios" target="_blank">www . gigabyte . com) and CPU should be fine . BUT, depending on WHAT BIOS is on the mobo, it may have to be flashed (if F4 of the BIOS isnt on it) . Since you need F4 so it supports that CPU . According to this ( . gigabyte . com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup . aspx?pid=3268" target="_blank">www . gigabyte . com) . If F4 isnt on it, it wont turn on / boot Altho, it maybe different (depending on the revision of the mobo) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1162403 | 2010-12-16 10:19:00 | Okay, what about the performance? Will it run 7 well? :pf1mobmini: |
sahilcc7 (15483) | ||
| 1162404 | 2010-12-16 10:24:00 | Well Win7 should be fine. Whether it performs well is another matter :p I dont have Win7 and never had an AMD CPU | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1162405 | 2010-12-16 19:24:00 | Okay, what about the performance? Will it run 7 well? :pf1mobmini: yes, fine! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1162406 | 2010-12-16 19:36:00 | I'd personally try and test the psu first too, just in case the old mobo died as a result of a new psu or anything. You wouldn't want to buy all these nice new bits and blow them up on a rank power supply. Also the i3's are pretty good performance at a nice price point, and their integrated graphics are useful for non gamers for watching movies and the like, or so I hear. and yeah maybe check that everything will work, if the HDD is an old IDE or Sata 1 hard drive, perhaps update that too? As for the cd drive.. doesn't really matter if it's IDE or Sata, there should be 1 ide connector on the board somewhere, and their performance isn't generally required to be millions of gigabytes a second for 12 hours a day so should be fine. |
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