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| Thread ID: 138686 | 2015-01-06 21:00:00 | Computer Upgrade | stu161204 (123) | Press F1 |
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| 1391608 | 2015-01-06 21:00:00 | I currently have a AMD Athlon 3200+ 64 Processor 2.GHz with 1GB ram with a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS graphics card. Running Windows XP. Which is now about 8 years old now, and I am now thinking about upgrading it... I use it for everything from building websites, editing photos, creating graphics, (use to do a bit of video editing, but since the video has gone HD, by computer can not handle HD videos :( ), and would like to watch recorded and on demand TV, on my TV I have next to my computer. I also use to play games on it as well, but I find I don't have the time now. We built this computer our self. What would you recommend getting? and where would the best place to get the hardware from? |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 1391609 | 2015-01-06 21:23:00 | Almost any current PC would be a huge improvement. Assuming you plan to build it yourself again and keep it for another 8 years though it might pay to buy something reasonable so it'll still be doing the job that far down the track. I like computer lounge, paradigm PC's, and PBtech for PC parts myself. www.computerlounge.co.nz http://www.pp.co.nz/ http://www.pbtech.co.nz/ I'd suggest something along the lines of; i5 quad core (which one is not all that important but avoid the "K" versions unless you want to try overclocking) Asus, Gigabyte, or Asrock motherboard - one of the cheaper ones with the budget chipsets is perfectly fine if not overclocking, shop for features you want At least 4GB and probably 8GB of RAM although you may want even more for video editing. For basic use currently more than 4 is unnecessary but in a few years who knows. I've been running 8 for a couple years now for gaming and it's been plenty but next build will be upping to 16. The rest of the choices are largely about preference, although an SSD is worth considering for the large improvement in load times. If you don't plan on gaming just use the inbuilt graphics and save some money, you can always add a graphics card later if this proves inadequate. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1391610 | 2015-01-06 21:45:00 | If you are looking for pre-built, I would thoroughly recommend "Jerry Lee" on Trademe. I have one of his PC's as has my grandson. Absolutely happy with his machines and customer service. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1391611 | 2015-01-07 03:21:00 | I'd just actually upgrade it....case is probably fine, unless you want a new pretty one, ditto PSU unless you need a grunty GPU..... I doubt you need anew optical drive....just do MB, CPU and RAM as a kit and add in a newer GPU. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1391612 | 2015-01-07 07:39:00 | I guess it depends on your budget. For around $1500 you can get a decent pre-built PC for what you do. If your budget is about half that than upgrading certain components might be easier as pcteck suggested. Get an upgrade bundle www.playtech.co.nz | ronyville (10611) | ||
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