Phoenix from the flames....

Dymetrie · 19-08-2007, 17:21

Well due to having been paid some serious money for some PC repair work I did last week then I'm looking at possibly upgrading Phoenix...

I want to take her to 64bit and bring her up to date (well she's an XP 3000+ at the moment).

I'm not going to start spending silly money and as such am only going to upgrade a few parts to start with, and young Garp has offered me a DFI Lanparty Ultra-D socket 939 board to begin the metamorphosis

Looking at getting an 4200 X2 chip (around £60) an X1650 (around £50) as the board is PCI-E so need to replace that, and then sticking with what I've got already (1.5GB PC3200, 200GB SATA, DVD writer and the other funky peripherals and add ins which I have

).

I'm also thinking of buying (I know what you're thinking here, me? buy software?) a copy of Vista, namely Home Premium 64 bit OEM, but that will depend if I can cover the cost by selling the old parts (board, chip and GFX) to my brother to upgrade his poota with...

Any advice, ideas, pointingandlaughing stints would be much appreciated

19-08-2007, 17:21	#1
Dymetrie A large glass of Merlot Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Letchworth with a Lightsaber Posts: 5,819	Phoenix from the flames.... Well due to having been paid some serious money for some PC repair work I did last week then I'm looking at possibly upgrading Phoenix... I want to take her to 64bit and bring her up to date (well she's an XP 3000+ at the moment). I'm not going to start spending silly money and as such am only going to upgrade a few parts to start with, and young Garp has offered me a DFI Lanparty Ultra-D socket 939 board to begin the metamorphosis Looking at getting an 4200 X2 chip (around £60) an X1650 (around £50) as the board is PCI-E so need to replace that, and then sticking with what I've got already (1.5GB PC3200, 200GB SATA, DVD writer and the other funky peripherals and add ins which I have ). I'm also thinking of buying (I know what you're thinking here, me? buy software?) a copy of Vista, namely Home Premium 64 bit OEM, but that will depend if I can cover the cost by selling the old parts (board, chip and GFX) to my brother to upgrade his poota with... Any advice, ideas, pointingandlaughing stints would be much appreciated __________________ Khef, Ka and Ka-Tet....