Not sure whether to upgrade or not ?

mazza7282

mazza7282

mazza7282

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I currently own a trusty Barton 2500+ @ 1.83 with 1 gig of geil 3200, a 160 maxtor sata 150 hard drive, along with a 350 watt tagen psu, a slk800 and a silent fan of somesorts which also has a radeon 9250 init.
An Asus Nforce 2 board (cant remember which one) which i mainly use for the dolby digital live to get the blue light on my AV system.

- I don't play games
- I don't do any video editing
- I don't create music, just listen

To be honsest the only thing I do on this machine is listen to my music (also the stuff on my network), smallville, star trek and all that, and surf the net.
I barely use MSN anymore.

I'm thinking whether to upgrade this system or to start again because as this is getting on a bit.

I see this 64 bit stuff out (I had a 3200 winchester 2.0 ghz before i swapped it for this one as i didnt like the motherboard and wanted N force 2 again)

And I think ooo i could get something like that (or a celeron D 3.0ghz or something) with 2 or 3 gig of cheapo - ok ram, DDR2 and a nice SATA 2 hard drive and a PCI express graphics card of some sorts.

Then I think is that over the top ?

I could just stick 3 gig of ram in here and get a Barton 3200+ and perhaps a 10.000 rpm hard drive (if I can be bothered to reinstall everything again) and keep the graphics card and get the HDA Digital X-Plosion 7.1 DTS Connect PCI Dolby Soundcard (SC-003-HT) that i so very very want.

O yea this current machine runs two monitors also

My storage server is an old 300MHZ machine with 256 of ram with a raid card and a 300 gig hard drive which loses the bios settings everytime you turn it off at the mains, so i can't be asked to mess with that, that can quite happily sit in the corner for the years it has done.

I dunno

Help ???? - Thanks
 
Well you dont seem to do anything with your PC that warrants an upgrade so i would say stick with what you have and save your money.
 
The reason why i fancied upgrading was maybe to go a bit faster ?

I might just go to a 3200 + and more ram & a few more expansion slots

Thanks anyway :)
 
mazza7282 said:
{snip}My storage server is an old 300MHZ machine with 256 of ram with a raid card and a 300 gig hard drive which loses the bios settings everytime you turn it off at the mains, so i can't be asked to mess with that, that can quite happily sit in the corner for the years it has done.{snip}
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I would replace the CMOS battery on that. If not I'm sure you can pick up a 2nd hand mobo from eBay & add more RAM. In fact focus on upgrading this rig!

If you are really itching to spend money on your main rig, maybe a new peripheral, e.g. keyboard? mouse? speakers? etc? or even maybe a new case???

hp7909 :cool:
 
my case set me back £80 from OCUK a year ago, i love it,lol, my keyboard is loverly and so is me microsoft intellimouse (although i did order a blue one and recieved a black one but i didnt bother me)

The CMOS battery has been changed once on the crappy server but its just happened again, can't really be bothered.
 
I wouldn't upgrade that system at all. More than fast enough. You could buy a bigger monitor, ie 20-24" widescreen LCD. If into music a lot might upgrade audio system (ie Hi-Fi integrated amplifier and decent L/R speakers)
 
Would not recomend an upgrade

Your PC requirements are so low, why upgrade, you would not notice any difference in the computers performance really, it's a fairly decent rig as it is
 
if your pc is running ok for what you want to do, i.e. you are not finding things too slow for your liking then leave it as it is.
on my sisters pc its running a sempron 2500+, 512mb ram and she uses it for the same things as you do and its fine.
 
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