Anthony,
I fully understand both your frustration and emotion. The bad news is
that I just do not have any suggestions about the new "bleeding edge"
stuff.
I use 3 clients very similar to your machine and I have zero trouble
from any of them playing games, surfing, doing office tasks, whatever.
No. I do not view movies, do massive audio stuff, run servers, use RAID,
etc.
ATM, I can not tell if AMD is a better bang-4-buck. Suspect if you
choose AMD, your current P5Q-Deluxe is toast and you start with new m/b.
I have no opinion on AMD's latest batch of cpus. Mine are old "Barton"
(post TBird) devices and continue to just truck on well in XPproSP3.
If your machine were mine:
o-I might think about a faster E8xxxx-series cpu (like E8400! ?if still
around?),
o-think about ?perhaps? an nVidia video card (I like my 9600GT cards;
yes, old),
o-maybe a bigger/newer psu.
You did not mention OS. Did read "2007"; so maybe Vista or XP? If you
choose to move to Win7, I have to leave comments to the collective.
HTH,
Duncan
On 07/30/2010 08:02, Anthony A Riederer wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
Is an AMD rig a better bang for the buck? I used to be a lot more up on the
hardware. I used to have a computer business where I did a lot of system
building. I was forced to close it when I suffered my traumatic brain
injury. So I don't have the distribution channels I used to have. Which
sucks right now. So now I am trying to play catch up on the latest hardware.
Come on people I need more suggestions. I value your opinions.
Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] new system build suggestions or upgrade
I have been really happy with my Intel Core I7-920 on an Asus P6T mb. I
have an Nvidia GTX 285 video card that is pretty nice. Although the latest
4xx series probably blows it away at the same price. I am running Win 7
Ultimate 64 with 6GB RAM. I am planning on upping the RAM to 12GB soon.
Bobby
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony A Riederer
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [H] new system build suggestions or upgrade
It is time for me to upgrade. If I were to piece something up. What is the
preferences on MB, CPU, Video, etc. Today? I currently have a core 2 Duo
E6300 @1.86 on an Asus P5Q Deluxe, 4GB DDR2 and a Radeon 1600 vid. I know
its dinosaur crap from around 2007 before my brain injury. I am recovered
enough to start playing some games again, etc. Should I upgrade the proc,
and vid on my existing setup which is running fine, or ditch it and start
new again. If I start over what is the collectives recommendations? Price
and performance are important here. I do some gaming, and video stuff etc.
-Anthony aka Tony
