railrunner
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4 years ago i built my first pc
P4 2.0 Ghz
Shuttle AV42 mainboard
mid tower ATX case with led fans
1 GB ddr sdram
geforce 5200 agp card
500 watt power supply
it's been a great solid rigg but it's getting seriously out dated and i was thinking of upgrading. when i started looking around i realized i have been way out of touch with the computer world and now i'm a bit unsure what to do. do i gut most of what i have and replace what i cant use or just start all from scratch? i was thinking i could just change my mobo processor and RAM but then i realized that eide isn't standard anymore and my hard drive and optical drives are all eide. most of the mobo's i look at only have one eide slot and the rest is sata. then there's the fact that agp is out the door now with PCI-E taking over. anyway i was wondering what you guys thought would be my best bet. i'm not a hardcore gamer but i do like to game some, and i like it to be smooth with good graghics. my wife does some picture editing and surfs the web like crazy and my daughter does the whole i-tunes mp3 thing. i was thinking of an asus m3a78 board with a phenom 8650+ 2.3 Ghz triple core or is that overkill? like i said i dont have a clue anymore. also how many watt psu is necessary now? any help would be great.
P4 2.0 Ghz
Shuttle AV42 mainboard
mid tower ATX case with led fans
1 GB ddr sdram
geforce 5200 agp card
500 watt power supply
it's been a great solid rigg but it's getting seriously out dated and i was thinking of upgrading. when i started looking around i realized i have been way out of touch with the computer world and now i'm a bit unsure what to do. do i gut most of what i have and replace what i cant use or just start all from scratch? i was thinking i could just change my mobo processor and RAM but then i realized that eide isn't standard anymore and my hard drive and optical drives are all eide. most of the mobo's i look at only have one eide slot and the rest is sata. then there's the fact that agp is out the door now with PCI-E taking over. anyway i was wondering what you guys thought would be my best bet. i'm not a hardcore gamer but i do like to game some, and i like it to be smooth with good graghics. my wife does some picture editing and surfs the web like crazy and my daughter does the whole i-tunes mp3 thing. i was thinking of an asus m3a78 board with a phenom 8650+ 2.3 Ghz triple core or is that overkill? like i said i dont have a clue anymore. also how many watt psu is necessary now? any help would be great.