Hello all.
I come to this forum in search of great advice. This will be my first computer-tech forum which I stop by, and hopefully it will be the only forum I stop by.
As you may have all guessed(or not), I will be upgrading my computer. My current computer specs are:
-AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3.0 GHz Processor
-ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
-2GB of DDR2 RAM
-ASUS M2A-MVP Motherboard
-450 Watt PSU
Owards with my questions/scenario:
Do you need a good graphics card for a performance computer?
I'm generally not into gaming, rather troubleshooting problems. Sometimes I'd need to do timely stuff, that, as a no brainer takes time, and I really want it to get done "lickity split" so that I can fix the problem.
If there is any game I MUST play, however, it would be from the Call of Duty series.
I know for a fact that I'll be getting the AMD Phenom II 955 Quad Core (3.2 GHz) processor. No doubt about it.
The only decision for me now is whether I should get a video card with 1GB or 2GB of video memory(correct term?). I will be sticking to either the ATI HD 3xxx series or ATI HD 4xxx series.
With the new video card and the AMD 955 Phenom, would I need to upgrade my PSU?
OR, would it just be a good idea to buy a SCSI Hard Drive and install Windows onto that? From my understanding SCSI Hard Drives are incredibly fast. This gets me thinknig that with even the slowest overall computer, if you just install Windows onto that SCSI hard drive, you'd be fine?
And what is the difference between a Solid State and a SCSI hard drive? Which would be better to buy in my case?
Thanks,
Cody
I come to this forum in search of great advice. This will be my first computer-tech forum which I stop by, and hopefully it will be the only forum I stop by.
As you may have all guessed(or not), I will be upgrading my computer. My current computer specs are:
-AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3.0 GHz Processor
-ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
-2GB of DDR2 RAM
-ASUS M2A-MVP Motherboard
-450 Watt PSU
Owards with my questions/scenario:
Do you need a good graphics card for a performance computer?
I'm generally not into gaming, rather troubleshooting problems. Sometimes I'd need to do timely stuff, that, as a no brainer takes time, and I really want it to get done "lickity split" so that I can fix the problem.
If there is any game I MUST play, however, it would be from the Call of Duty series.
I know for a fact that I'll be getting the AMD Phenom II 955 Quad Core (3.2 GHz) processor. No doubt about it.
The only decision for me now is whether I should get a video card with 1GB or 2GB of video memory(correct term?). I will be sticking to either the ATI HD 3xxx series or ATI HD 4xxx series.
With the new video card and the AMD 955 Phenom, would I need to upgrade my PSU?
OR, would it just be a good idea to buy a SCSI Hard Drive and install Windows onto that? From my understanding SCSI Hard Drives are incredibly fast. This gets me thinknig that with even the slowest overall computer, if you just install Windows onto that SCSI hard drive, you'd be fine?
And what is the difference between a Solid State and a SCSI hard drive? Which would be better to buy in my case?
Thanks,
Cody