It has been time to upgrade my aging pc for a LONG time now, and now that I had just applied for broadband (500k sadly) there is no better time than now. I compiled a list of what I should buy last year, but things change in a year, so I was wondering if I could get some help with it . I do not know a lot about computer parts, mostly I just get an out of the box pc. But I want to do it right, and on a budget. Anyway this is what I have right now:
I currently have some sort of AMD 750 mainboard,
with 750hrz processor,
64Mb RAM,
a stuffed soundcard,
20Gb hard drive (or somesort),
dvd with cd writer,
floppy disk thing,
A working mouse, keyboard and a big working monitor
And a videocard that dosn't really do anything.
Now I do understand that almost none of that can be kept, so this is the shopping list I had last year:
AMD Athlon 64 2800 - Retail £102.81
£67 EPoX 8KDA3J motherboard
Corsair 512MB DDR Value Select PC3200 - £55.81
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB - Lite Retail £140.94
£12.50 PSU Q-tec 400W
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB SATA - OEM £66.92
And some sort of PSU, 550W Q-Tec probably
I am pretty sure that I can put it all together I just can't afford to buy a part that wasn't quite right for my machine. I am new to the insides of a pc, but am keen to learn.
D Keaton
I currently have some sort of AMD 750 mainboard,
with 750hrz processor,
64Mb RAM,
a stuffed soundcard,
20Gb hard drive (or somesort),
dvd with cd writer,
floppy disk thing,
A working mouse, keyboard and a big working monitor
And a videocard that dosn't really do anything.
Now I do understand that almost none of that can be kept, so this is the shopping list I had last year:
AMD Athlon 64 2800 - Retail £102.81
£67 EPoX 8KDA3J motherboard
Corsair 512MB DDR Value Select PC3200 - £55.81
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB - Lite Retail £140.94
£12.50 PSU Q-tec 400W
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB SATA - OEM £66.92
And some sort of PSU, 550W Q-Tec probably
I am pretty sure that I can put it all together I just can't afford to buy a part that wasn't quite right for my machine. I am new to the insides of a pc, but am keen to learn.
D Keaton