Just two months short of four years, Ive finally got around to "upgrading" my PC.
The retired parts.....AMD Opteron 165(1.8GHz) @ 2.7GHz, aircooled
DFI NF4 Ultra-D @ 300MHz
2GB GSkill PC4000(250MHz) @ 300MHz 3,4,4,8
4 x 250GB(125GB platters) Hitachi HDs in RAID 0
2 x nVidia 7900GTX 512mb
16x NEC PATA DVD writer
1.44mb Floppy drive
Windows XP 64bit
Remaining parts....Sound Blaster X-FI
Coolermaster Stacker case
600w Silverstone PSU
MS Razor Habu mouse
MS Keyboard
Dell 20" wide screen TFT (Over 5 years old!)
Logitech Z680 Speakers (About 7~8 years old now.)
New PartsAMD Athlon II X2 245(2.9GHz), currently at 3.5GHz with no voltage increase and aircooled, load temp of 33C. This is a stop gap CPU, in a year or so Ill be going hex core or something, if I need to that is.
ASUS M4A89GTD Pro (AMD 890GX Chipset), too many new BIOS options
4GB GSkill PC16000(2GHz), 9,9,9,27. Not started overclocking yet, still working on the CPU.
2 x Samsung F3 1TB(500GB platters) in RAID 0
24x NEC SATA DVD writer
Windows 7 64bit
I couldnt justify spending too much, although this little lot still came to £550. Hardly play games any more and my current PC was more than fast enough for what I used it for. Still, it was time......
Using the onboard GFX for now, will get a dedicated GFX card in a month or two, or if a game comes out I really want to play.
So far, pretty happy with it all, really liking Windows 7 and the Italy theme I installed. I feel so out of the loop but its quite exciting to have a new PC to play with again also. Doing all that overclocking malarky
