pc upgrade confusion

by Aziz Poonawalla on July 23, 2010

in technology

I’m having some issues figuring out my next upgrade path, and could use some techie advice here. help!

{ 4 comments }

1 Dave Price July 23, 2010 at 4:39 pm

On Monday I get the cable to Crossfire the 5770s in my Aurora. Mwahahahaha!

“1.78 of 1.8 TB free” — are there any sweeter words in the English language?

2 deadrody July 24, 2010 at 7:36 pm

If you can’t be bothered to post the exact request HERE, you don’t deserve any advice from the commenters HERE.

Your link dump schtick is exceptionally tiresome.

3 Tom DeGisi July 24, 2010 at 8:20 pm

deadrody,

Dean specifically (and repeatedly) approves of Aziz doing that.

Yours,
Wince

4 foobarista July 27, 2010 at 8:57 pm

I used to do lots of PC upgrading, but nowadays desktops are so cheap and the internal interfaces change so frequently that it’s rarely worth upgrading a computer that’s more than a couple years old. A computer from the Windows ME days is completely obsolete in terms of hardware interfaces, power, etc.

For the money you’ll spend on a new mobo, chip, RAM, hard drive, dvd-rom, etc, you can buy either an extremely well-provisioned new one from Dell Outlet (about $450) or a nearly-new ‘puter from Craigslist for a couple hundred bux or less.

If you do want to keep an old desktop around for something like a network or print server, etc, I’d recommend putting Linux or XP on it and not using it for anything else. Your hard drive will probably die fairly soon, so don’t use it for anything important.

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