OK, here's my situation. I wanna upgrade the listed rig:
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2000MHz
Asus A7N8X Deluxe (Nforce 2)
1024 MB of Kingston ValueRAM
Nvidia Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT AGP
Western Digital WD1200JB 120.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS
The games I currently play are WoW and from time to time some FPS and Sports games. Now, it's not very urgent to upgrade my rig because the games I play run quite well. What I find annoying, is that when I log into my machine, it takes kinda "long" before the machine is ready and when I wanna start a program, it also takes it's time.
Now, I know msconfig and I disabled alot of programs in the startup. The only things I have in my startup are the most necessary things I need(which is not alot). My girlfriend got a new Dell computer about a year ago and I have to say it's blazing fast. It's nothing fancy, 1GB RAM, 3GHz P4, Serial ATA harddisk etc. So I'm a little bit "pi$$ed" off that her computer is really so much faster than mine
Could it only be the harddisk that makes her computer feel so much snapier? In general, I can wait for about 3 months to upgrade because I've heard that the Socket M2 will come out so I'm waiting for that moment and then definitely upgrade. I know, there will be more and more product announcements every day, but I think that's the "biggest" one that comes up in the next couple months and that's why I'm waiting this last time.
Another reason is, that I got my GeForce 6600GT not too long ago, and I would also have to upgrade the video card because I wanna/have to go the PCI Express route(I think it's a pity to upgrade the video card in less than a year so
).
Any input is appreciated
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2000MHz
Asus A7N8X Deluxe (Nforce 2)
1024 MB of Kingston ValueRAM
Nvidia Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT AGP
Western Digital WD1200JB 120.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS
The games I currently play are WoW and from time to time some FPS and Sports games. Now, it's not very urgent to upgrade my rig because the games I play run quite well. What I find annoying, is that when I log into my machine, it takes kinda "long" before the machine is ready and when I wanna start a program, it also takes it's time.
Now, I know msconfig and I disabled alot of programs in the startup. The only things I have in my startup are the most necessary things I need(which is not alot). My girlfriend got a new Dell computer about a year ago and I have to say it's blazing fast. It's nothing fancy, 1GB RAM, 3GHz P4, Serial ATA harddisk etc. So I'm a little bit "pi$$ed" off that her computer is really so much faster than mine
Could it only be the harddisk that makes her computer feel so much snapier? In general, I can wait for about 3 months to upgrade because I've heard that the Socket M2 will come out so I'm waiting for that moment and then definitely upgrade. I know, there will be more and more product announcements every day, but I think that's the "biggest" one that comes up in the next couple months and that's why I'm waiting this last time.
Another reason is, that I got my GeForce 6600GT not too long ago, and I would also have to upgrade the video card because I wanna/have to go the PCI Express route(I think it's a pity to upgrade the video card in less than a year so
Any input is appreciated