Hi Guys,
Recently purchased a few bits of the members market to allow me to upgrade my ever ageing amd 2500 mobile.
So far i have -
Motherboard - Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe
CPU - AMD X2 5200
Ram - 2GB (2x1024mb @ 800Mhz)
The old 2500 has a lot of hard drives in so i plan to keep this running as a file server to help me keep temps down inside the new machine, it will be used for a little bit of gaming although that isnt its main priority. With this in mind the new hdd wont need to be massive, and im really not sure on the graphics card. Would be nice to play battlefield 2 again (if anyone still plays this?) As since all the updates they have done to bf2 my current rig has become unable to play it.
The case doesnt need to be anything flash, just simple and quite really. i already have a brand new black dvd-rw waiting to be installed so if you can find a case which this will go well with that would be good. May also install an internal card reader so would be nice to have a 3.5 external bay.
PSU just needs to be capable of running the above setup really, as i say i will only be powering the 1 hard drive so shouldnt need to be too flash.
Budget, well keep it as low as possible really, although ill try to increase my budget within reason to get a better system. How do you think £150 will fair? Im quite happy to buy from the members market etc to keep prices down.
Thanks a lot, Russ
Recently purchased a few bits of the members market to allow me to upgrade my ever ageing amd 2500 mobile.
So far i have -
Motherboard - Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe
CPU - AMD X2 5200
Ram - 2GB (2x1024mb @ 800Mhz)
The old 2500 has a lot of hard drives in so i plan to keep this running as a file server to help me keep temps down inside the new machine, it will be used for a little bit of gaming although that isnt its main priority. With this in mind the new hdd wont need to be massive, and im really not sure on the graphics card. Would be nice to play battlefield 2 again (if anyone still plays this?) As since all the updates they have done to bf2 my current rig has become unable to play it.
The case doesnt need to be anything flash, just simple and quite really. i already have a brand new black dvd-rw waiting to be installed so if you can find a case which this will go well with that would be good. May also install an internal card reader so would be nice to have a 3.5 external bay.
PSU just needs to be capable of running the above setup really, as i say i will only be powering the 1 hard drive so shouldnt need to be too flash.
Budget, well keep it as low as possible really, although ill try to increase my budget within reason to get a better system. How do you think £150 will fair? Im quite happy to buy from the members market etc to keep prices down.
Thanks a lot, Russ