techiedork
Junior Member
Hey all,
I am putting together a system upgrade and need some advice. I am currently running a P4 2.4ghz system on an ASUS P4P800-E mobo with 1gb ram. Running with the onboard video, NIC and sound. I currently am running 4 hdds (one system, one data and 2 additional storage drives). This system is running Vista, but just barely. I think I am scoring a 1+. I am getting a bit tired of waiting for it to catch up, so it's time for an upgrade.
I have been primarily an Intel fanboy to date, but taking cost and performance into account, I am considering the switch to AMD.
I am looking to upgrade to:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz on a GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD Motherboard with Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800, 4 hdds (probably 2 SATA, 2 IDE), Soundblaster (probably Audigy), 1 Firewire and 1 USB card. For now, I will be using the on board video, but may upgrade to an AGP card in the near future. I will be using the onboard NIC. I may also up Vista to the 64 bit version.
The only parts that will really be used from the old system is the case, power supply (unless I need more than 450 watts), firewire and USB cards, hard drives and fans.
This is going to be used primarily as an everyday email, internet and MS Office computer, but will begin doing some video editing and web development on it as well, along with Photoshop. So, nothing real resource intensive except for Vista and the occasional video editing sessions.
Does this sound like a wise upgrade? I don't have a lot of $$ to spend right now, but I will be able to complete the upgrade for about $350 delivered. Any suggestions or problems you see?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. Have a great day.
Sincerely,
David
I am putting together a system upgrade and need some advice. I am currently running a P4 2.4ghz system on an ASUS P4P800-E mobo with 1gb ram. Running with the onboard video, NIC and sound. I currently am running 4 hdds (one system, one data and 2 additional storage drives). This system is running Vista, but just barely. I think I am scoring a 1+. I am getting a bit tired of waiting for it to catch up, so it's time for an upgrade.
I have been primarily an Intel fanboy to date, but taking cost and performance into account, I am considering the switch to AMD.
I am looking to upgrade to:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz on a GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD Motherboard with Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800, 4 hdds (probably 2 SATA, 2 IDE), Soundblaster (probably Audigy), 1 Firewire and 1 USB card. For now, I will be using the on board video, but may upgrade to an AGP card in the near future. I will be using the onboard NIC. I may also up Vista to the 64 bit version.
The only parts that will really be used from the old system is the case, power supply (unless I need more than 450 watts), firewire and USB cards, hard drives and fans.
This is going to be used primarily as an everyday email, internet and MS Office computer, but will begin doing some video editing and web development on it as well, along with Photoshop. So, nothing real resource intensive except for Vista and the occasional video editing sessions.
Does this sound like a wise upgrade? I don't have a lot of $$ to spend right now, but I will be able to complete the upgrade for about $350 delivered. Any suggestions or problems you see?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. Have a great day.
Sincerely,
David
