weather to upgrade or buy new pc?

[SteKewn]

Hello all

Am thinking of upgrading/buying new PC
My current pc spec is
AMD 1.4 GHz <which i upgrade four months from a 750 AMD>
Sis chipset motherboard <think 830>
menmory 2 sticks 128mb pc133 sdram/ 256mb pc133 sdram
20g hard drive + 120gb hard drive
dvd RW and cd RW
and its on board graphics and sound

my main use for the pc is downloading, burning, encoding and also playing
network gamies via ps2.
I was looking at getting AMD 64 but i read a couple of aticles saying It might
have problems
with old drives. thats my main concern that it might better buying the syterm
brand
new already made <just the base unit>
if any one could help or even just give a bit of advice on weather it worth
upgrading or go outing and buying a new one.
< i would upgrade myself but i ant confident i last time i did blow the
processor and had to but i new one :i have upgrade hard drive and internal
drives before nerver gone for i fool upgrade DIY stlye dou >

CHEERS
STE K

 

[Michael Culley]

Hello all

Am thinking of upgrading/buying new PC

You can upgrade or buy a pc in any weather..... ;-)

It might be better to sell what you got and start over, that way all components come from around the same time. If you get old
components mixed with new problems are more common.

 

[John]

Hello all

Am thinking of upgrading/buying new PC
My current pc spec is
AMD 1.4 GHz <which i upgrade four months from a 750 AMD>
Sis chipset motherboard <think 830>
menmory 2 sticks 128mb pc133 sdram/ 256mb pc133 sdram
20g hard drive + 120gb hard drive
dvd RW and cd RW
and its on board graphics and sound

Its kind of a good spot now - even the best stuff out a little while
ago is like the end of an era (3200 XP + nforce2 ) with the
beginnings of the new - the 64 bit stuff which is just starting to
fall a bit in price. So its kind of not worth buying the next era yet
unless you have money to burn - where probably much faster and cheaper
chips will be out in a year or so with new graphics cards too (the
9800 XT seems like its reaching the end of the line too) - but the end
of the current era stuff is pretty dang cheap now.

There are some dirt cheap refurb motherboard deals and even new
motherboards - tons of them ranging from $100 to $50 that are OK ,
you can get mem deals in the US if you wait for a sale (not sure how
the UK is) and the barton 2500 which is fine as is with 2700 mem can
be OCed to 3200 easy.

It does make a difference with encoding and of course games .
I noticed a fair difference going from a 1700 to a 2500 @ 3200.

Whole thing cost - with 1 gig 3200 mem and barton 2500 @3200
and motherboard - about $270 but I sold my old CPU for $35 and some
other mem I had so I did the whole thing for $190 or so net. Dont
know how the prices are in the UK so that might change things.

 

[SteKewn]

yeah i see your point . but say if i got a new amd 64 base unit ,standard i
could get for around 300- 450 pounds would that be worth going into the 64 bit
era . <but i would have try and reuse my hard drive and dvdrw /cdrw drives if
they were compatable > or would be beter just getting not the top end the
middle end of the market
any one got any good sites to vist for pc stuff cheap {idea full base units
for sale}
my max lay out ive got is about
500 pounds