Morning all,
I am in some desperate help to put together a new PC and would really appreciate some guidance.
I have around £500 to £700 to spend on a new rig. I have a pioneer writer, fatality pci sound card, keyboard, mouse, speakers and an OS all ready to swap over. I have an old samsung syncmaster 19" monitor which has VGA only which I don't mind keeping but would have no objection to changing should the latest batch of gpus not provide vga outputs.
My main usage is far from demanding, just general web browsing and streaming plus re-encoding and zipping of data. It has been years since my last rig has been able to play games (Athlon San Diego 4000+ skt 939, x800gt, 1gb ddr2 and some asus deluxe mb) so at the moment I am not really a PC gamer but it would be nice if it could run some of the newer games. I just want something that is very responsive as my rig is now grinding to a slow death.
Whilst overkill I've been looking at the i7 chips and the DDR3 memory but not sure if I'd regret paying extra for this cutting edge technology and not make use of it in any way.
So yeah, if someone can take the time to help me out that would be great.
Possibly with and without a new monitor as I know that will change the goalposts and the necessary gpus etc . I'd be looking for a pretty large monitor if changing from my 19" so about a 22"+
Thank you
I am in some desperate help to put together a new PC and would really appreciate some guidance.
I have around £500 to £700 to spend on a new rig. I have a pioneer writer, fatality pci sound card, keyboard, mouse, speakers and an OS all ready to swap over. I have an old samsung syncmaster 19" monitor which has VGA only which I don't mind keeping but would have no objection to changing should the latest batch of gpus not provide vga outputs.
My main usage is far from demanding, just general web browsing and streaming plus re-encoding and zipping of data. It has been years since my last rig has been able to play games (Athlon San Diego 4000+ skt 939, x800gt, 1gb ddr2 and some asus deluxe mb) so at the moment I am not really a PC gamer but it would be nice if it could run some of the newer games. I just want something that is very responsive as my rig is now grinding to a slow death.
Whilst overkill I've been looking at the i7 chips and the DDR3 memory but not sure if I'd regret paying extra for this cutting edge technology and not make use of it in any way.
So yeah, if someone can take the time to help me out that would be great.
Possibly with and without a new monitor as I know that will change the goalposts and the necessary gpus etc . I'd be looking for a pretty large monitor if changing from my 19" so about a 22"+
Thank you
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