Hi Guys
I’m looking at upgrading an old Dell P4 1.8ghz pc.
Its not going to be used very much to be honest other than basic duties, however I plan on using it to organise and control my music, my library is around 70,000 which are stored on my server. I’ll be planning on using itunes as I have a plug in which helps sort out the metatags which tends to be quite power hungry and took quite a while on my laptop. i’m also likely to be converting FLAC to MP3/AAC for use on my ipod as and when I need it so not sure how much computing power that would take.
I’ve not really kept up to date with computers for about 4 years since I had my old Socket 939 3000!, however I did build an Atom based server about 6 months ago, so I feel confident in doing the work myself.
I’ve had my eye on an AMD 5200+ AM2 bundle in the MM for about £65, it comes with an Abit motherboard which has HDMI onboard graphics which would be ideal for me as it’s being connected to a 32” LCD tv.
Is this likely to be enough, or should I be looking at something a bit bigger for the odd times I might need extra power.
Also I recall the old P4’s being pretty power hungry, am I likely to be able to use the same power supply that’s in the old pc since these newer chips seem more efficient?
I’m looking at upgrading an old Dell P4 1.8ghz pc.
Its not going to be used very much to be honest other than basic duties, however I plan on using it to organise and control my music, my library is around 70,000 which are stored on my server. I’ll be planning on using itunes as I have a plug in which helps sort out the metatags which tends to be quite power hungry and took quite a while on my laptop. i’m also likely to be converting FLAC to MP3/AAC for use on my ipod as and when I need it so not sure how much computing power that would take.
I’ve not really kept up to date with computers for about 4 years since I had my old Socket 939 3000!, however I did build an Atom based server about 6 months ago, so I feel confident in doing the work myself.
I’ve had my eye on an AMD 5200+ AM2 bundle in the MM for about £65, it comes with an Abit motherboard which has HDMI onboard graphics which would be ideal for me as it’s being connected to a 32” LCD tv.
Is this likely to be enough, or should I be looking at something a bit bigger for the odd times I might need extra power.
Also I recall the old P4’s being pretty power hungry, am I likely to be able to use the same power supply that’s in the old pc since these newer chips seem more efficient?
The early Emachines I worked on were also pretty inflexible, but I recently worked on Emachines that had been upgraded with a DVD recorder and a second hard drives. The reason I was called in was the power supply had died, but it took a standard ATX replacement. I also worked on a brand-new high end Dell just a couple weeks ago that had no IDE connector to accepts the hard drive from the computer it was replacing as a second drive. The new Dell was strictly SATA, it didn't have any free IDE capacity.