My current PC is pretty stable but its starting to show its age (at least I think it is). My current setup is:
AMD 2500+ Barton (OC to 171 x 12)
Abit NF7-S
Corsair XMS 1GB (2x 512MB)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Seasonic S12 380watt
NEC DVD+/-RW
Lite-On CDRW
Hitachi 120GB SATA
I really haven't had a problem with the system with the exception of it originally had an A7N8X-E that died and the only replacement I could find was a second-hand Abit. For my needs, its been pretty good but I feel it could be faster. I'm thinking of doing a partial to complete rebuild. Here's what I have in mind so far:
GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
I'd like to reuse everything else sans the obvious but I guess my main concern is the power supply and its ability to power the rig. It has about 300watts on the 12v rails so I'm hoping this is enough.
I'm not really a power user anymore and use the computer more or less for internet, multimedia and work. Basically my most used programs are Firefox, Pidgin, Outlook, Word, Excel, Quicken, Yahoo Music Engine, WMP11/Zune, uTorrent, Adobe Acrobat, ActiveSync and Avast. Occasional are Nero, Ghost, DVD Decrypter and SUPER. Zero games are played on this machine. The biggest CPU intensive process I do is encoding movies to work on my Zune, which takes FOREVER. Hence my thoughts the system 'could' be better.
Brand preference is really none. I went with the AMD setup more because of price/performance from what I quickly read. The components above should cost around $275 so I'd like to throw in another $75 for anything else I missed.
Any ideas or am I on the right track?
Thanks,
-K
AMD 2500+ Barton (OC to 171 x 12)
Abit NF7-S
Corsair XMS 1GB (2x 512MB)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Seasonic S12 380watt
NEC DVD+/-RW
Lite-On CDRW
Hitachi 120GB SATA
I really haven't had a problem with the system with the exception of it originally had an A7N8X-E that died and the only replacement I could find was a second-hand Abit. For my needs, its been pretty good but I feel it could be faster. I'm thinking of doing a partial to complete rebuild. Here's what I have in mind so far:
GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
I'd like to reuse everything else sans the obvious but I guess my main concern is the power supply and its ability to power the rig. It has about 300watts on the 12v rails so I'm hoping this is enough.
I'm not really a power user anymore and use the computer more or less for internet, multimedia and work. Basically my most used programs are Firefox, Pidgin, Outlook, Word, Excel, Quicken, Yahoo Music Engine, WMP11/Zune, uTorrent, Adobe Acrobat, ActiveSync and Avast. Occasional are Nero, Ghost, DVD Decrypter and SUPER. Zero games are played on this machine. The biggest CPU intensive process I do is encoding movies to work on my Zune, which takes FOREVER. Hence my thoughts the system 'could' be better.
Brand preference is really none. I went with the AMD setup more because of price/performance from what I quickly read. The components above should cost around $275 so I'd like to throw in another $75 for anything else I missed.
Any ideas or am I on the right track?
Thanks,
-K