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    ok my friend wants to upgrade his computer because he had it for like 8 years. can anyone suggest any components that will help his computer run faster and smoother but wont cost too much. he needs a better harddrive, video card, etc

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    Re: upgrade

    what does he want to be able to do......

    games?
    general browsing on tinternet?
    media streaming?
    vid editing?

    budget?

    cmon give us some more meat to tear into.
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    Re: upgrade

    8 years old.. upgrade.. 8 years old and a bin make a better combination

    What is it that he has already and how much is he willing to spend?

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    Re: upgrade

    A reasonable gaming rig for circa £500 would look something like this:-

    Case ---------------- Antec Three Hundred
    Power Supply ------ 520W Coolermaster Real Power M520 Modular PSU
    Motherboard ------- Asus P5K-E
    CPU ----------------- Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 Wolfdale
    Memory ------------ 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2 DDR2 PC6400 (800) CAS 4-4-4-12 DHX
    Graphics Card ------ 512MB BFG Tech 8800GT OC
    Hard Drive --------- 500GB Samsung HD502IJ Spinpoint F1
    Optical Drive ------- Samsung SH-S203P/BEBN

    Let me know if you want to spend more and I'll take it up a notch.

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    Re: upgrade

    he needs it for gaming, little browsing and watching movies/ listening to music. About 500 dollars with be good

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    Re: upgrade

    $500 for a gaming rig... so approx £270....

    straight copy off one of my other posts:

    Barebones: here Asus T3-M2NC51PV

    CPU: here AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ <<<needs bumping up a bit

    HDD: here Western Digital WD800AAJS <<<prolly want more storage

    RAM: here OCZ 1Gb DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 <<<prolly want 2GB

    DVD: here Optiarc AD-5200A-0B <<<it be fine

    obviously lots of it needs making better but it's a starting point which totals &#163;200 so &#163;70 to make a few vchanges like bumping up RAM and Proccy
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