I'm possibly looking to upgrade the PC in the comming few months, I'm not into games much (or certainly not the ones that tax the hardware), but Its storting to feel slow when doing normal everyday tasks, dealing with bigger PDFs, etc. but I think I'm completely out of the loop with it all, its been a few years since I did much with it, the last full upgrade I was back in summer 2007. According to the Invoice it was a core2duo E4300 on an Abit IB9, 2x1GB memory, 7800GT 256mb, 430w antec PSU, all in the windowed case retained from the previous upgrade in 2002. Its actaully showing as having an E6700 processor, and I seem to remember changing this about 2010. The Graphics card is showing as a GTX260 and I don't remember changing this, but must have done, probably a cast off from my brother who was into his games at one point. A further 2X1GB memory seemed to have appeared too. but I dont remember puting it in!. A year ago I put in a 250gb SSD as the boot drive and this sped it up a bit, kept the old 1TB hard drive as data storage. So TLDR... its now
E6700, Antec 430W, ABIT IB9, 250GB SSD, 1TB HDD, GTX260, Win 7, 4x1GB RAM
Now I'm guessing this is probably all very pre-historic these days
, I'm guessing the only thing I'd be able to save is the 1TB drive with the data on it, and probably not even the case as the PSUs now all seem to be at the bottom. So I guess I'm starting from scratch to build a new system unit?
This is very much about trying to understand whats what these days, rather than comming up with an exact spec, because I haven't set a buget or anything yet. Whatever I come up with I'm likely to stick with it a very long time..... (I do this with cars too!)
I think I'm tempted by the Ryzen range of CPUs, possibly something in the range of the 3600. Am I better looking at the X570 chipset rather than B450 as I have heared the B450 is being discontinued soon? Memory, I think I'd probably look along the lines of 2x16GB,so that when it gets long in the tooth as long as there are four slots then I'd be able to add another lot in 5 years time... I see memory is described as Intel optimised or AMD otimised, obviously you pick the right one, but unsure why memory should be specific to one or the other?, How do memory speeds work these days, I imagine its not just matched to the FSB.
What size PSU do you generally need these days?, Cases, why do a lot of them not have 5.25" Bays, where do you put your optical drives? I'm guessing no one bothers with a floppy drive anymore (cant remember last time I used it), Does the SSD plug straight onto the motherboard these days, do you still get SATA connectors?
How does all this RGB stuff with the coloured LEDS work? Do you need a special controller for?
I'm guessing not being a gamer I could just pick up any cheapish graphics card off MM?
Like I said, This is more about me understanding whats avilable these days, rather than coming up with an exact spec, as it'll probably be at least a few months anyway before I do anything. I just feel hopelessly out of date with it all!!
E6700, Antec 430W, ABIT IB9, 250GB SSD, 1TB HDD, GTX260, Win 7, 4x1GB RAM
Now I'm guessing this is probably all very pre-historic these days
, I'm guessing the only thing I'd be able to save is the 1TB drive with the data on it, and probably not even the case as the PSUs now all seem to be at the bottom. So I guess I'm starting from scratch to build a new system unit?This is very much about trying to understand whats what these days, rather than comming up with an exact spec, because I haven't set a buget or anything yet. Whatever I come up with I'm likely to stick with it a very long time..... (I do this with cars too!)
I think I'm tempted by the Ryzen range of CPUs, possibly something in the range of the 3600. Am I better looking at the X570 chipset rather than B450 as I have heared the B450 is being discontinued soon? Memory, I think I'd probably look along the lines of 2x16GB,so that when it gets long in the tooth as long as there are four slots then I'd be able to add another lot in 5 years time... I see memory is described as Intel optimised or AMD otimised, obviously you pick the right one, but unsure why memory should be specific to one or the other?, How do memory speeds work these days, I imagine its not just matched to the FSB.
What size PSU do you generally need these days?, Cases, why do a lot of them not have 5.25" Bays, where do you put your optical drives? I'm guessing no one bothers with a floppy drive anymore (cant remember last time I used it), Does the SSD plug straight onto the motherboard these days, do you still get SATA connectors?
How does all this RGB stuff with the coloured LEDS work? Do you need a special controller for?
I'm guessing not being a gamer I could just pick up any cheapish graphics card off MM?
Like I said, This is more about me understanding whats avilable these days, rather than coming up with an exact spec, as it'll probably be at least a few months anyway before I do anything. I just feel hopelessly out of date with it all!!