UPGRADE or GO NEW?: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+, 2000 Mhz

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akiragfx

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LOOKING TO UPGRADE MY MACHINE

NEED TO CATER TO A LOT OF GRAPHIC APPS
SO I'M CONSIDERING NEW MOTHERBOARD, PROCESSOR, RAM, ETC.
THE WORKS ON THIS THING

THINKING IT'LL BE CHEAPER THAN GETTING A NEW CUSTOM ONE BUILT OR BUYING A WHOLE NEW SYSTEM SINCE PROCESSORS AND MOTHERBOARDS ARE MUCH CHEAPER NOW

HERE'S THE MACHINE'S SPECS:

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name AKIRA5
System Manufacturer System manufacturer
System Model System Product Name
System Type X86-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, 2000 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 1 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1013, 4/7/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.50 GB [HAS 4 SLOTS]
Total Physical Memory 1.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 77.5 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.26 GB
Available Virtual Memory 488 MB
Page File Space 1.29 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

CRUCIAL SCANNER RESULTS:
http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/viewscanbyid.aspx?id=35B1D8E231D926C3


SUGGESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS?
 
Especially running vista ultimate I'd upgrade your processor to dual core so you're probably going to need a new mobo too. Ram could be upgraded to ddr2 as well as graphics. I think that you would be better off with a new build and keep this computer as an extra machine.
 
yea i mean a cheap upgrade would be ram but imo and many others best bet would be to upgrade ur whole comp with cpu prices droppin u can piece together a new and much better build for pretty cheap.. and u could try selling ur old one for money to put towards ur new build. or i used my old one as a linux machine
 
im done, thank you

action to be taken:
1. more ram to current machine
2. keep current machine as spare machine
3. buy new cpu


thanks!!!
 
akiragfx said:
cohen,

yes, highly considering a new machine.

especially with machines this cheap:
http://www.buy.com/prod/hp-pavilion...md-athlon-64-x2-5600/q/loc/101/205611528.html

hm, since this machine still performs real well, if i was to upgrade this machine, what would your first action be?
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Yeah that would be a good machine to go to.

akiragfx said:
action to be taken:
1. more ram to current machine
2. keep current machine as spare machine
3. buy new cpu


thanks!!!
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Agree
 
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