Greetings Overclockers
Im pretty dense with the specifics of what makes a good PC, so I have some general questions that I hope someone could help me with.
Im looking to replace my PC, my original thought was to spend quite a bit of money now-and get myself a badass machine that will last a good while. I mainly want a PC for gaming and a bit of light photoshop in the main.
I dont really run particularly demanding games (Command & Conquer 3 is probably the most demanding game I own) so in a sense it has not got to be all powerful, but then as mentioned, I want something that will last me a while.
A couple of specific questions-
1) What is all this talk of overclocking?
2) Should processor speeds concern me? If so what should I be aiming for?
3) Is a badass graphics card my main priority?
4) Why for example is the Intel Core 2 Quad pro cheaper than the Core 2 Duo? Isnt quad better than Duo?
5) Whats a good size hard drive, the standard seems to be 500GB- is that enough for average PC use?
6) For the sake of £18 you can upgrade to 4 GB of memory which seems a good deal but then you must have a 64bit O.S to take advantage of said memory- which presumably means Vista. I heard Vista sucks up a lot of memory for pretty superficial 'improvements' over XP. So what is better- 2GB and XP or 4GB and Vista?
And finally 7) Ive seen overclocked systems and specific systems under the gaming section, the gaming machines being cheaper...should I be going for gaming or overclocking?
Thanks for any help in advance and please forgive my incompetence! And apologies if Ive stuck this in the wrong forum!
Im pretty dense with the specifics of what makes a good PC, so I have some general questions that I hope someone could help me with.
Im looking to replace my PC, my original thought was to spend quite a bit of money now-and get myself a badass machine that will last a good while. I mainly want a PC for gaming and a bit of light photoshop in the main.
I dont really run particularly demanding games (Command & Conquer 3 is probably the most demanding game I own) so in a sense it has not got to be all powerful, but then as mentioned, I want something that will last me a while.
A couple of specific questions-
1) What is all this talk of overclocking?
2) Should processor speeds concern me? If so what should I be aiming for?
3) Is a badass graphics card my main priority?
4) Why for example is the Intel Core 2 Quad pro cheaper than the Core 2 Duo? Isnt quad better than Duo?
5) Whats a good size hard drive, the standard seems to be 500GB- is that enough for average PC use?
6) For the sake of £18 you can upgrade to 4 GB of memory which seems a good deal but then you must have a 64bit O.S to take advantage of said memory- which presumably means Vista. I heard Vista sucks up a lot of memory for pretty superficial 'improvements' over XP. So what is better- 2GB and XP or 4GB and Vista?
And finally 7) Ive seen overclocked systems and specific systems under the gaming section, the gaming machines being cheaper...should I be going for gaming or overclocking?
Thanks for any help in advance and please forgive my incompetence! And apologies if Ive stuck this in the wrong forum!