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| Thread ID: 91360 | 2008-07-04 06:12:00 | 9 year old PIII 600 struggling with load.... | laworder (12738) | Press F1 |
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| 685165 | 2008-07-05 06:37:00 | Thanks for the hard drive recommendation apsattv. Got to be faster than what I have :-) pctek thanks for that, will definitely avoid Hyena - have seen a couple oif these fail. What do you think of Auriga supplies? Have seen one that would do nicely Regards Peter Jenkins |
laworder (12738) | ||
| 685166 | 2008-07-05 12:15:00 | You have been provided great advice fo the new computer. What I usually do is, get a case and PSU that you like and powerful enof a good brand for PSU but not so for the case depends, a good ASUS or Gigabyte motherboard that supports the CPU that you want, the motherboard chipset I may get a nicer one but that can be quite optional if you are not overclocking, I don't and I have found even with SiS chipsets its been fine doing photoshopping and normal admin stuff, Segate HDD, ASUS, LiteOn, LG, Pinoneer, Sony are good optical drives, pick your video card if you are into games, or just an avg one for admin work. For your current one, I am using a laptop, PIII 600Mhz and its fine. I run windows 2000 on it, XP was too slow. Very stable. I don't load that much software or even install them. I think clean it up with virus, spybot softwares and hijackthis, it could be a good idea to do a clean install (format). |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 685167 | 2008-07-05 21:08:00 | Cheers Nomad, I am happy with the advice I've had, am about to go out and purchase on the strength of it on Monday, I think after 9 years I have had my moneys worth out of this machine! Regards Peter |
laworder (12738) | ||
| 685168 | 2008-07-07 03:07:00 | id go a bit bigger than 400watt psu if your plannin on goin quadcore one day supertalent ram is cheap and its given me no problems, even overclocking it. www.pricespy.co.nz - search for supertalent and look for 2gigs with 4-4-3-8 written next to it. plenty of shops selling it local to you |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 685169 | 2008-07-07 04:01:00 | And you DO have a need of a graphics card... Otherwise you have nothing to connect your screen to, do you??? Well... if you get a P5K-E/WiFi anyway. Just not a good one. 8600/9600GT? Cheap, and powerful enough to do whatever you might want. P.S. LOL@ XP being mature enough. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 685170 | 2008-07-07 05:14:00 | T pctek thanks for that, will definitely avoid Hyena - have seen a couple oif these fail. What do you think of Auriga supplies? Have seen one that would do nicely s Haven't dealt with them for years, but used have loads fail. Get Enermax, Silverstone or Coolermaster PSUs, the case itself doesn't matter. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 685171 | 2008-07-07 08:15:00 | Thank you everybody, will be getting a 500W Silverstone supply, and a cheap Inno 7200GS graphics card because as thebanaamonkey quite correctly said I'll have nowt to plug monitor into otherwise Supplier didnt have 7200.11 Seagate, instead has a ES.2 which is the Enterprise Standard version of the 7200.11 and even more reliable, me happy Thanks and Regards Peter |
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