First Upgrade Question

djbenjo · 17 Feb 2009 at 20:33

I am out of the loop wrt all aspects of hardware etc.

I have just bought a system and still have a little money left over which I would perhaps like to spend on an upgrade. This is the current spec;

Intel E2140
ECS P4M890T-M (V2.0) motherboard with Via P4M890 Chipset
2Gb DDR2
80GB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
256MB NVidia Geforce 6200 Turbocache

What should I upgrade first?

Also would this run vista/windows 7 comfortably? Or should I just stick to XP? I have stuck with XP since its release as I never really felt comfortable with Vista I guess.

djbenjo · 17 Feb 2009 at 20:41

I used to play CS:S a lot, but now mostly stick to the Xbox, though it would be nice to get back into it. I agree about the hard drive, it is small, is there any particular brand to go for or avoid at the moment?

djbenjo · 17 Feb 2009 at 20:54

As little as possible really

I'd say at the moment about 50 quid, but I guess I'm after in what order the bottle necks will arise and which are the weaker components in the system

djbenjo · 17 Feb 2009 at 22:31

95 quid inc p&p I didn't think it was too bad for the price, was looking for a few days and this was, besides one I missed on the MM, the best one this side of 150. It was bought from a popular auction site.

djbenjo · 18 Feb 2009 at 12:51

In all honesty I wouldn't want to return it, for my budget its the best, aside from one, that I've seen in two weeks! Everything else was single core/althon/celeron/p4 <3.0Ghz mostly DDR1 and no PCI-E! Any ideas how vista/W7 will run on this?

djbenjo · 21 Feb 2009 at 16:32

Sorry to drag this back up, but better than starting a new thread.

Would people recommend XP, Vista or W7 for this machine?