Upgrade / new build suggestions

paulb567

paulb567

paulb567

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My machine is 3-4 years old now and getting pretty sluggish running Windows 7.

I'm looking to upgrade and was wonder what were the fairly standard mid-range components. The machines primary use will be software development / general desktop applications. Not planning on using this machine for gaming at the moment.

The more memory the better as running a couple of instances of Eclipse, Oracle & Weblogic soon eats available memory.

Machines current specs. are...

Gigabyte 965P-DS3P
Intel Core 2 - 6600 @ 2.4GHz
ATI Radeon X1900 Series (512MB)
320GB ST3320620AS HDD
Corsair HX520W Power supply.
Big black case of some description.
Dell 2005FPW Monitor

I'm thinking of reusing the case, power supply and graphics card leaving just the MB, CPU, memory and HDD to replace.

I think I'm going to replace the old Dell monitor with 2 x Dell 2209WA. Anyone got anything good or bad to say about this choice?

Thanks :)
 
Thanks for the replies.

Whoops, sorry forgot to mention the RAM. It's currently got 2GB of Geil something or other, I'd have to wait until later to look inside to see exactly what speed it is, it was bought 3 1/2 years ago and was probably £150ish mid-range at the time.

I image the 2GB is the bottle neck and I'd benefit significantly from going to 6 or 8GB?

The current install of Win 7 Pro is only a few weeks old so I don't think I've accumilated all that much crap to warrant CCleaner or similar just yet.

Thanks :)
 
If I were to decide to add some additional memory to my machine do I need to be careful of the exact specs. of the new memory?

E.g I believe the 2x1GB set of Geil run at 4-4-4-12 @ 800

If I were to add the 4GB on offer this week (OCZ Titanium 4GB (2x2GB) Edition DDR2 PC2-6400 Dual Channel (OCZ2T800C44GK)) which are 4-4-4-15 would this cause a problem?

Thanks :)
 
Thanks, not sure if I made myself clear. I meant would it matter if I added the additional 4GB (2x2GB DDR2 pair) to the original 2GB (2x1GB DDR2 pair). Is it OK to have 2 pairs of memory by different manufacturers and different sizes or would I have to have 4 identical sticks to have it function correctly?

:)
 
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