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
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
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.
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?
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.
he needs it for gaming, little browsing and watching movies/ listening to music. About 500 dollars with be good
$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 £200 so £70 to make a few vchanges like bumping up RAM and Proccy
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