Okay here's the story....I just bought a computer from my buddy it was built for him 9 years ago...I know it old but with the new hardware I think it will be just what I am looking for... So its a Thermaltake Xaser II tower (huge).....it has a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with 1gig of ddr ram...antec performance True 550w max. power supply...a video card which i haven't found out what it is yet...3 hard drive varries in sizes. A dvd burner, cdrom driver, and a cdrw drive...I want to spend about 500 to upgrade the computer what do you think I should upgrade first and to what....I haven't built a computer since 1999...i paid 150 for the computer as is in the running condition...and thoughts?
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PohTayToez
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I think that for $650 you could have built a brand new computer that would be considerably better than anything 9 years old.
I understand that... I am not really looking for any crazy gaming I have my xbox and ps3 for that....I looking for a media center so I can watch HD movies and TV programs on my monitor and my tv...I am just trying to get back into computer besides just internet and shit...like i would like to do some photo shop and stuff..
Drenlin
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I think I just answered this question on another forum....
Like I said, Socket A and AGP for the CPU and GPU don't make for a very fast system at all.
The very fastest CPU you can get for this is an Athlon XP 3200+, which by today's standards is pretty terrible.
What CPU is in it now?
Like I said, Socket A and AGP for the CPU and GPU don't make for a very fast system at all.
The very fastest CPU you can get for this is an Athlon XP 3200+, which by today's standards is pretty terrible.
What CPU is in it now?
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sniperchang
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Ya, even if you upgrade it...
PohTayToez
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Yeah, but if you're already set on spending a certain amount of money, then why not get as much out of it as you can. Or hell, you could spend about $400 and build a decent computer that is much better than what you're trying to upgrade.
Drenlin
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Yeah, there's no way a 1500+ is going to work for this...that's about as fast as the high end Pentium 3's.
Do you know if the case is ATX or Micro ATX? (7 expansion slots, or 4?)
edit: Standard ATX then...just making sure any mobo would fit.
What nbrikha posted would be fine.
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Do you know if the case is ATX or Micro ATX? (7 expansion slots, or 4?)
edit: Standard ATX then...just making sure any mobo would fit.
What nbrikha posted would be fine.
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