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Ok ill try be as descriptive to my dilemma I can be!
Im currently sat in front of 4.5 year old PC! Now when I built it, it wasn’t so shabby and has since had minor upgrades but nothing mega
It stands at:
Running on Win XP
AMD XP 2.2Ghz
1.5Gb DDR 333 Mem
128MB ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Motherboard is MSI
80 GB Hard Disk
Audigy 2 Sound Card
DVD rewriter
DVD reader
Im in two minds do I upgrade? Or do I build from scratch? What would be any pros of keeping this thing? As far as I can tell the only thing I may salvage is the DVD rewriter, OS and possibly Audigy 2?! Or do I keep waiting as this gets me by and prices are dropping and what’s the point in wasting cash whilst this one works?!
Basically im looking at spending about £1100 on a new tower, I keep looking at graphics cards but always find myself drawn to the £400 ones and the £400 processors! Which then blows the budget? I realize there is a certain threshold you get to when buying where you ending up forking 50% more for an item that only kicks out an extra 15% power. This whilst nice, is something I want to try avoid!
Please help! It would also help a great deal if you included rough prices on the parts that are suggested.
Typical usage would to games like Oblivion, and upcoming Dark Messiah looks cool, so basically I like gaming! Is it possible for quiet or am I asking far too much on that budget?!
Heres what i came up with!
Im currently sat in front of 4.5 year old PC! Now when I built it, it wasn’t so shabby and has since had minor upgrades but nothing mega
It stands at:
Running on Win XP
AMD XP 2.2Ghz
1.5Gb DDR 333 Mem
128MB ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Motherboard is MSI
80 GB Hard Disk
Audigy 2 Sound Card
DVD rewriter
DVD reader
Im in two minds do I upgrade? Or do I build from scratch? What would be any pros of keeping this thing? As far as I can tell the only thing I may salvage is the DVD rewriter, OS and possibly Audigy 2?! Or do I keep waiting as this gets me by and prices are dropping and what’s the point in wasting cash whilst this one works?!
Basically im looking at spending about £1100 on a new tower, I keep looking at graphics cards but always find myself drawn to the £400 ones and the £400 processors! Which then blows the budget? I realize there is a certain threshold you get to when buying where you ending up forking 50% more for an item that only kicks out an extra 15% power. This whilst nice, is something I want to try avoid!
Please help! It would also help a great deal if you included rough prices on the parts that are suggested.
Typical usage would to games like Oblivion, and upcoming Dark Messiah looks cool, so basically I like gaming! Is it possible for quiet or am I asking far too much on that budget?!
Heres what i came up with!
Keeping the graphics card.