Scrap or upgrade

edgarina · 19 Mar 2011 at 10:33

HI all,

My old, now my wifes computer, looks to be coming to the end of its natural. It now has a trojan on it which has prompted the review. You have to give it a good wallop on top to open the DVD drive and its connection to the internet is unreliable. Its running an old SP of XP

It has a MS-6777 Mobo and a 230 PSU, 1gb ram. It has an AMD Athalon xp3000+ at 2.16Mhz

Does the Mobo support enough newer technology to bother to upgrade wipe and reinitialise it with Vista or 7 or when you can get a desktop for 250ish (Though 250 is a lot of money right now) with windows 7 that is perfectly adequate for very basic stuff and web browsing is it just a waste of money when its so old and will not be fit for any purpose soon.

Thanks.

cmndr_andi · 19 Mar 2011 at 10:41

Scap.

Sorry, but a socket A board like that is not really worth persevering with these days.

Instead, a cheap new system using this motherboard, this CPU, this RAM and this PSU (assuming the current PSU is not great) would be a pretty massive upgrade. A nice new hard disk like this would also be a huge upgrade and it sounds like a new DVD drive is in order.

Total cost for this upgrade - £217.92 including VAT and delivery (though not including a new Operating System).

edgarina · 19 Mar 2011 at 11:12

Thanks dude I figured that was the case.

How about this ?

Looks a pretty good deal to me considering it comes with windows7

cmndr_andi · 19 Mar 2011 at 11:17

Sorry man, but you will need to remove that link as it is against forum rules.

It does look OK for a low price, but please bear in mind that they are not naming the PSU (not a good sign) and going for a s775 system means that options for upgrading in the future are very limited.

edgarina · 19 Mar 2011 at 11:26

Woops sorry,

thanks, yea might last until I can offord a new rig myself though, then she can have this one. I get her caste off phones, She gets my computers, alls fair in love and war.