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Originally Posted by Finnster
15yrs?! Jesus Jerry! Btw, I have a '04 Asus PC FS. 1.6mhz, 512mb ram, will run windows7. Exec condit. Classic Taiwanese silicon. They don't make em like this anymore!  (actually they do, they just cost more) |
Yea what can I say I just hate wasting money on buying something new when I have something that works perfectly fine. Actually I am now looking at moving up to something more state of the art for 2010 because of my job, but I am not willing to spend more than $1000. My 14 year old son has already done his research for updating the desktop I have now in order to make it a gamer for his needs. I think it will be a great way for him to learn a few things along the way. I am not a gamer, but I do love speed and good audio & video preformance. There are a fair amount of pretty savy machines out there in the $600 range. Here is what I am planning for.
A 2.6 to 3.2 Ghz quad core(preferably Intel).
At least 8 Gigs up to 16gigs of Ramm DDR3 would be good.
A fairly good video card (gamer quality is a plus).
A motherboard that has plenty of USB ports and leaves room for expasion
A 5.1 or better sound card.
A mini tower that does not weigh 100lbs loaded up.
A 650W power supply or better.
A teribite of hard drive space.
A desent(fast) DVD burner.
And something that looks up to par style wise. Personally I still like HP because of their customer support and because I can get just about all of this for approx $600 through the base exhange. Most of the electronics we have are HP. We have Dell, Toshiba, Sony, as well, but THeir customer support sucks. I hate propietory crap. The 15 year old PC I use now is a custom built machine that I came up with myself while learning the PC technical side back in 1994. It is a simple Athalon 1.6ghz porcessor. Nothing fancy in todays market, but it was pretty good back in 1994. It still runs along just fine, but something is wrong with the motherboard and only one of the DDR slots is working right now, which really limits my memory speed(1 gig). So yes it is time to move up. Luckily for me I have a few friends to lean on who really know the PC world inside and out. I do my research and call on them for advice, and yes assistance when needed. Still it is not hard to learn new things on your own. I started by buying one of those "Build your own super computer" books and went from there.