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Hi all,
As the topic suggests, I am looking to make a killer system that is a little old... to save money.
I hope others will feel free to post their similar requests for sage advice here as well.
OK Smart guys. I am an old tech geek (used to herd IBM 3081 mainframes 20+ years ago) that doesn't want to take months educating myself.
I've got a p4 3.4ghz 1mb L2 on an IC7G with 2gig of double banked DDR-400 for an FSB of 800mhz. I built it about 5 years ago (but upgraded to the 3.4 from 2.8 CPU fairly recently). GEForce 7600GS, M-Audio Delta AP192, Philips SAA713X tuner card, etc.
I use Videoredo, DVDFAB, DVDShrink and Roxio a lot, as well as Adobe Audition for sound editing. I use my rig as a TIVO and as a multimedia server using Twonky and a DSM520.
Given that my rig was great 5 years ago, it seems like it could be even better 2 years (or 1 year ago).
Is there anything that would give me noticeable improvement, particularly on the Video editing/shrinking... but be truly cheap??? For example, I've noticed the AMD X2 5600+ with 2mb total L2 for about $86.
What can you put together for less than $90 per part (CPU, MOBO, possibly memory) that will blow me away??? Alternately, what would you recommend even cheaper (or perhaps) slightly more expensive.
Thanks.
As the topic suggests, I am looking to make a killer system that is a little old... to save money.
I hope others will feel free to post their similar requests for sage advice here as well.
OK Smart guys. I am an old tech geek (used to herd IBM 3081 mainframes 20+ years ago) that doesn't want to take months educating myself.
I've got a p4 3.4ghz 1mb L2 on an IC7G with 2gig of double banked DDR-400 for an FSB of 800mhz. I built it about 5 years ago (but upgraded to the 3.4 from 2.8 CPU fairly recently). GEForce 7600GS, M-Audio Delta AP192, Philips SAA713X tuner card, etc.
I use Videoredo, DVDFAB, DVDShrink and Roxio a lot, as well as Adobe Audition for sound editing. I use my rig as a TIVO and as a multimedia server using Twonky and a DSM520.
Given that my rig was great 5 years ago, it seems like it could be even better 2 years (or 1 year ago).
Is there anything that would give me noticeable improvement, particularly on the Video editing/shrinking... but be truly cheap??? For example, I've noticed the AMD X2 5600+ with 2mb total L2 for about $86.
What can you put together for less than $90 per part (CPU, MOBO, possibly memory) that will blow me away??? Alternately, what would you recommend even cheaper (or perhaps) slightly more expensive.
Thanks.