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21st January, 2007 at 17:51:21 -

ok so I've got a very old computer in the house.

I had the idea to make it work again by tuning it up with new parts to make it a very good computer.

I've got the money for a new computer, but I just feel like rebuilding or updating one myself.

I need basicly everything replaced, so give me suggestions on what parts should I buy.

What Harddrive should I buy? Graphics Card? CPU? Drives?

any suggestions?

what would a fairly good computer be?

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21st January, 2007 at 22:39:40 -

Maxtor is a great hard-drive brand. Nvidia is a pretty good video card brand, and an intel core duo 2 is a great CPU.
Get a DVD drive that can read CD's at 54x, DVD's at 8x at least, and write perhaps at 16x for CD's.

 
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21st January, 2007 at 23:06:12 -

Avoid AMD and you'll be fine. Limit your spending (100 for each component will get you a mid range system).

Course now it's all Serial ATA and super magic connections so I don't know where we're up to. C2D CPU is the don. my C2D iMac runs on 85 watts and runs anything I throw at it. good temperature too.

 
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21st January, 2007 at 23:18:02 -

Who avoids AMD, if they can't afford the Core 2 Duo...

Avoid Intel unless you can afford their best, because AMD is much faster.

 
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22nd January, 2007 at 06:20:30 -

Intel is way faster than AMD, brandon (?)
Get a core 2 duo 4300 or 6300. If you overclock it a little it's faster than current fastest CPU(at stock speed) for like $1000 cheaper

 
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22nd January, 2007 at 06:39:02 -

Core 2 duo is definitely the way to go.
For a graphics card, upgrade to at least a geforce 6800, a 7600gt is pretty good. 7100, 7200, 7300 are crap.
Try to get something with a 256bit memory interface thing.
I don't know much about ATI cards.
For the hard drive.. any 7200rpm drive will do I suppose.
For the optical drive a lite-on DVD burner is only about 20$(US).
Obviously you'll need a new motherboard for all these new parts.
If you're not a computer freak any new intel socket775 board should be ok.


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22nd January, 2007 at 09:13:39 -

Don't be conned into getting an MGP graphics port if you're buying an AGP card - most things say the two are compatible, but it's very limited in the cards that it can accept. You'd probably be going for a PCI Express one now, anyway.

I haven't actually ever heard of an MGP port apart from on my own motherboard, but it's something to look out for nevertheless.

 
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Right now I'm downloading on BitTorrent, ripping a DVD in Handbrake (H.264/AAC 1009kbps), and encoding my recorded TV shows for iTunes (H.264 again) as it records a TV show too (MPEG2 stream, 8mbps).
2ghz C2D running at 75%. no actual slowdown whilst viewing websites, email, dashboard etc. can't find my temperature reading either. it's a very efficient, very powerful CPU. AMD had the upper hand till these beauties.

 
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22nd January, 2007 at 12:55:05 -

wow thanx for the feedback guys!

so the Intel Dual Core 2 is the one I should take?



 
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22nd January, 2007 at 13:28:10 -

The Intel Core 2 Duos are very nice unfortunately they come at a cost. Until the Core2Duo range I'd have definitely advised you to get and AMD. The nVidia graphics card range has also overcome the ATi range - especially the SLI capabilities. Definitely go for PCIe on the graphics card slot and preferably get an SLI capable motherboard.

Thats just my 2 cents.

 
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22nd January, 2007 at 14:48:16 -

run an appropriate version of linux

 
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no linux


 
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