PC Upgrade for the other half.

Flibster · 01-11-2008, 20:25

As I've got the spare time now to finally do it, time to upgrade the other half's PC.

But to what...

She's currently running a X2 @ 2.7ghz, a 1950XT and a old Epox s939 motherboard.

Any upgrade will involve a new Motherboard, cpu, memory and graphics card. Probably a new HDD as well as I'm sure she's running PATA.

I'm thinking:
3ghz C2D or a 2.4 C2Quad
Big huge heatsink. Probably something like the Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME
4gb of ram. 2x2gb geil probably
4850 or 4870 - purely because I prefer the drivers that ATI produce to the nvidia ones.
Motherboards - I have no idea about. Gigabit lan is essential though. Probably go with an Intel chipset.
HDD - Samsung F1 job. Running 2 of the 750gb ones in my machine and they rock.
Will be installing Vista Ultimate 64bit on it too

Any suggestions?

01-11-2008, 20:25	#1
Flibster Moonshine Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 3,388	PC Upgrade for the other half. As I've got the spare time now to finally do it, time to upgrade the other half's PC. But to what... She's currently running a X2 @ 2.7ghz, a 1950XT and a old Epox s939 motherboard. Any upgrade will involve a new Motherboard, cpu, memory and graphics card. Probably a new HDD as well as I'm sure she's running PATA. I'm thinking: 3ghz C2D or a 2.4 C2Quad Big huge heatsink. Probably something like the Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME 4gb of ram. 2x2gb geil probably 4850 or 4870 - purely because I prefer the drivers that ATI produce to the nvidia ones. Motherboards - I have no idea about. Gigabit lan is essential though. Probably go with an Intel chipset. HDD - Samsung F1 job. Running 2 of the 750gb ones in my machine and they rock. Will be installing Vista Ultimate 64bit on it too Any suggestions? __________________

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