Talk about the most active and educated comp forum around ! This place really rocks !
Anyways, I'm posting for some help as with all the other poor souls that come here to bug the experts
I'm looking to build a new rig to replace my current one. Lately my PC has really ground to a halt and seems to be slowing down despite a recent full format and some minor tweaking.
My current PC's main specs are: -
San Diego 4000+
ASUS A8 something deluxe (the skt939 board) with AGP
1Gb decent Corsair low latency memory
1 250gb SATA drive
1 60gb really old IDE storage drive
Radeon X800 XT AGP
There are some things I plan to keep from this build like the NEC writer and the new sound card but other than that its getting binned. It does seem a shame its performing so poorly as I fitted my gfx with a new silent fan, just replaced the power supply and sound dampened the whole case
I'm looking to spend around £1,500 on the new build.
I'd like the PC to be pretty close to silent through air-cooling. I'm only gaming on a 19" TFT monitor so don't think I'll need SLI or xfire just yet but would like to be future proof if possible with the mobo purchase. I'm defo getting a Conroe chip but couldn't justify the X6800's price tag. I'm not a hard core gamer (and if I was its at 1200x1000 res anyways) but I do a lot of video conversation and winrar packing and extraction and find this is killing my PC at the moment (strangely it never used to though). I know the Conroe’s don't have hyper threading technology but I do really want the best multi-tasking set up for my money which I believe to be Conroe’s.
Well I know I'm being lazy wanting so much help but any recommendations or advice you can spare the time to give will be very much appreciated. I’ve done a lot of reading but as always there is so much conflicting advice.
Thanks
p.s. Just noticed the 24” Dells are reduced again this week, perhaps a re-think is in order
Anyways, I'm posting for some help as with all the other poor souls that come here to bug the experts
I'm looking to build a new rig to replace my current one. Lately my PC has really ground to a halt and seems to be slowing down despite a recent full format and some minor tweaking.
My current PC's main specs are: -
San Diego 4000+
ASUS A8 something deluxe (the skt939 board) with AGP
1Gb decent Corsair low latency memory
1 250gb SATA drive
1 60gb really old IDE storage drive
Radeon X800 XT AGP
There are some things I plan to keep from this build like the NEC writer and the new sound card but other than that its getting binned. It does seem a shame its performing so poorly as I fitted my gfx with a new silent fan, just replaced the power supply and sound dampened the whole case
I'm looking to spend around £1,500 on the new build.
I'd like the PC to be pretty close to silent through air-cooling. I'm only gaming on a 19" TFT monitor so don't think I'll need SLI or xfire just yet but would like to be future proof if possible with the mobo purchase. I'm defo getting a Conroe chip but couldn't justify the X6800's price tag. I'm not a hard core gamer (and if I was its at 1200x1000 res anyways) but I do a lot of video conversation and winrar packing and extraction and find this is killing my PC at the moment (strangely it never used to though). I know the Conroe’s don't have hyper threading technology but I do really want the best multi-tasking set up for my money which I believe to be Conroe’s.
Well I know I'm being lazy wanting so much help but any recommendations or advice you can spare the time to give will be very much appreciated. I’ve done a lot of reading but as always there is so much conflicting advice.
Thanks
p.s. Just noticed the 24” Dells are reduced again this week, perhaps a re-think is in order
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