Budget Upgrade not inc PSU/case

eveyuk · 5 Oct 2006 at 19:43

I'm looking to Upgrade my tired old computer. It's a pentium 4 2.4 with a gig of ram.

I have a 480 Tagan PSU and three IDE Hard drives I'd like to keep with a case. I imagine I'll need 2gb of ram, a CPU/Mobo and video card plus a cooler.

I use it for Photoshop/word processing/web surfing Skype.

I'm looking to spend £500 ish and I hope it will do Vista well and be reasonably future proofed.

Can you help me?

eveyuk · 5 Oct 2006 at 20:57

Great

That seems great and on budget, is this a good processor for the Photoshop/ digital photography that is the majority of my workload?

eveyuk · 6 Oct 2006 at 08:36

I've sobered up now, is that motherboard ok for my 3 IDE drives?

Many thanks

eveyuk · 6 Oct 2006 at 10:13

So should I factor in a new Hard drive to install windows on then perhaps a PCI to IDE card?

eveyuk · 8 Oct 2006 at 17:42

i think I need to stretch to a couple of 200GB+ HHard drives too, which ones are the best deal at the moment?

eveyuk · 13 Oct 2006 at 17:18

Nearly ready to buy, do I need a cooler for the CPU too?

Anyone else got an opinion?

eveyuk · 13 Oct 2006 at 19:35

Thank you forum police.