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Techfreak99

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I'm running a Quad Core i5-760(2010)2.8, a nvidia 610GT Video card,4GB ram ddr-3 1333 (Kingston), Soundblaster audio card (7.1),Western Digital Black Caviar hard drives 1tb,640GB..... so what parts & in what order should I upgrade to take max advantage of what Jriver offers for both audio &video??? Also currently running a Redemere 40ft HDMI cable from my PC to my Yamaha RX-A1000 to be able to use it(PC) as a HTPC.Thanks for any help in advance
 
You have a decent-good quad core, 4GB RAM and a shitty graphics card.
If you want to play games, all you'd have to do is upgrade the GPU. A lot of AMD cards are on sale, because they just released some new cards.
If it's just for an HTPC, for playing movies and such, the GPU should be just fine.
 
Hi: Thanks for a quick reply!! Would I benefit at all in adding 4gb(upgrading to 1600 from my current 1333(sorry forgot the tech term so much for my user name:o!!LOL) of ram,also what advantages are there to using a SSD. I use the computer as my main computer & HTPC.Again thanks!!!!
 
Techfreak99 said:
Hi: Thanks for a quick reply!! Would I benefit at all in adding 4gb(upgrading to 1600 from my current 1333(sorry forgot the tech term so much for my user name:o!!LOL) of ram,also what advantages are there to using a SSD. I use the computer as my main computer & HTPC.Again thanks!!!!
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If its just a HTPC, nothing needs upgrading.

If you want quieter and faster response times an SSD will be good.
 
What OS are you running? If it's 32 bit then 4 gigs of ram is the max you can use.

Also your video card is 64 bit so you may lack some details in your HTPC. Have you tried it as it is?

I'd go at least 128 bit. More is better.
 
Hard to say if adding ram will improve performance. It depends on how ram you are using. I have 8 gigs in mine and I don't think I went over 4 gigs myself yet.

In your case a better video card will be the biggest improvement so start with that and see how it goes.

A newer core CPU like an Ivy and Haswell enables the latest technology such as USB 3.0, PCIe 3.0 and SATA III for example. There's other features as well like turbo-boost.
 
What card would you suggest for video,I do not play any games of consequence with my PC ,but use it for "streaming" Hi-Def i.e blu-rays,etc so something around maybe $100 Canadian dollars?? What about moving all my programs including Win 7 to a SSD? Thanks for your help Twiki!!!
 
No graphics card or CPU or RAM is going to make the slightest difference to your HTPC.

HTPC require very little resources.
 
64 bits should be enough for movies, yeah. For gaming, no.
Asus HD 7770 2GB: $125 would make gaming possible. Off the top of my head, it should run BF3 at medium with fluid FPS.
 
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I don't see how you can say the video card won't make a difference. He has a high def TV.
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There is absolutely NO reason to upgrade his graphics card for 2D functionality. Most decoding is done on the CPU anyway and that has plenty of grunt. Most HTPCs don't even have a discrete GPU these days.

And his high def TV is 1080p. At 2D graphics output, that's nothing.

Again, Techfreak99, NOTHING on your computer NEEDS updating and spending money on CPU, RAM, GPU will do absolutely nothing.

For a HTPC, spend any money that's burning in your pocket, on HDD, SSD, RAID arrays, Sound Card etc etc. But certainly not on processing power.
 
Agree with Dokey. My suggestion is only if you wanted to turn it into a gamer. The CPU and RAM is fine for gaming, so if you added a GPU, it could be a good gamer.
But for a HTPC, it's just fine.
My HTPC specs: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz @ 1.6GHz, Corsair 2GB DDR2-667MHz, Intel G31 onboard GPU (MUCH slower than your GT610) and it plays 1080p videos just fine.
 
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