Havent looked at buying new hardware in well over 2 years so am really out of the game, just done little upgrades to my rig. Have recently come into some money so have decided that I am going to sell my current rig and buy a brand new computer. I have a budget of between 1000-1400, 1500 being my absolute maximum if the gear is right for me.
What I use my PC for:
Music
I love music and my computer is my stereo, currently with an audigy 2zs matched up with my logitech 5.1 450w speakers. Now I find these speakers are perfect for me and I really don't need to upgrade these, the sound card is pretty good, but if there is something that is better at a reasonable price I would like it.
Gaming
I enjoy a bit of gaming when I have the chance, mainly running World of Warcraft, and do a lot of end game raiding in it, with a pretty extensive ui on it which uses a load of resources, currently using a radeon x1950 AGP card, I would like to now upgrade this to a PCI-E card for that extra performance. I also run games like battlefield 2 and would like to be playing some more recent games.
Business/Security
This isnt a major issue, I am smart enough to be able to secure my own files!
Current rig
Is probably useful for you to know what I have and what I plan on keeping, anything in blue i dont really want to upgrade from unless there is something that you can suggest which is going to blow my mind!
CPU: Pentium 4 2.6c
Mobo: Asus P4C800-E deluxe
RAM: 1gig XMS 4400 Corsair
Harddrives: 2 x Western Digital Cavalier 80gb IDE Drives
1 x Western Digital 160gb SATA II 16mb cache
PSU: Akasa Paxpower 460w
GFX: Sapphire Radeon x1950 512mb AGP
Sound: Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Logitech 5.1 450W speakers
Keyboard + Mouse: Logitech DiNovo Desktop
Monitor: 2 x Hitachi 17" 16ms LCD (about 4 years old now, but still absoloutely amazing)
I will need a case for this PC, I am a fan of black cases to match the rest of my set up and nothing to fancy, currently have the old coolermaster blackwidow.. not to fussed about a window or anything, just as long as it has a nice amount of space. Liking the look of the lian li full tower aluminium fellas at the moment. Cables, I have plenty of so I don't need to worry about those either.
If there is any more information you need I will post it up!
Thanks in advance guys!
What I use my PC for:
Music
I love music and my computer is my stereo, currently with an audigy 2zs matched up with my logitech 5.1 450w speakers. Now I find these speakers are perfect for me and I really don't need to upgrade these, the sound card is pretty good, but if there is something that is better at a reasonable price I would like it.
Gaming
I enjoy a bit of gaming when I have the chance, mainly running World of Warcraft, and do a lot of end game raiding in it, with a pretty extensive ui on it which uses a load of resources, currently using a radeon x1950 AGP card, I would like to now upgrade this to a PCI-E card for that extra performance. I also run games like battlefield 2 and would like to be playing some more recent games.
Business/Security
This isnt a major issue, I am smart enough to be able to secure my own files!
Current rig
Is probably useful for you to know what I have and what I plan on keeping, anything in blue i dont really want to upgrade from unless there is something that you can suggest which is going to blow my mind!
CPU: Pentium 4 2.6c
Mobo: Asus P4C800-E deluxe
RAM: 1gig XMS 4400 Corsair
Harddrives: 2 x Western Digital Cavalier 80gb IDE Drives
1 x Western Digital 160gb SATA II 16mb cache
PSU: Akasa Paxpower 460w
GFX: Sapphire Radeon x1950 512mb AGP
Sound: Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Logitech 5.1 450W speakers
Keyboard + Mouse: Logitech DiNovo Desktop
Monitor: 2 x Hitachi 17" 16ms LCD (about 4 years old now, but still absoloutely amazing)
I will need a case for this PC, I am a fan of black cases to match the rest of my set up and nothing to fancy, currently have the old coolermaster blackwidow.. not to fussed about a window or anything, just as long as it has a nice amount of space. Liking the look of the lian li full tower aluminium fellas at the moment. Cables, I have plenty of so I don't need to worry about those either.
If there is any more information you need I will post it up!
Thanks in advance guys!
