The time will come soon, when I’ll finally have two functional working PCs. After I do that, then I think I’ll either save up for a Laptop or start building a Gaming PC.
I’m contemplating whether or not I should just replace both with cheap current low end hardware instead of buying new hardware for old computers. It depends on whether or not I want to spend the money. Really, I have no idea what I would do with them. Isn’t like I can sell them. I really don’t want to be left with parts that don’t go anywhere. Really, the only reason I’m still holding on to them is because I’ll rather not recycle them. The PCs only need a few parts, if they break down in the next few years, then I’ll think about retiring them.
One PC is going to pretty much need a complete overhaul and will be basically a new PC after it is all done. I’m looking at about 400 to 500 on parts. I can use some parts from the one I overhaul on my other and save a little money. I was thinking about whether I should use Dual core, even if it will be about $100 more. It will become a Media/File Server, so it might just be a good idea in the long term.
Windows Vista is coming out and I need to contemplate buying it and saving up for that. I’m also thinking about the current generation of Linux OS and I think I can probably buy Windows Vista ultimate (retail) for the gaming machine and install Linux on the rest of the systems. It would probably be nice to have a third machine to install whatever to test its stability before installing on my other machines. Also, for the gaming machine, it would be better if there weren’t a whole lot of processes running in the background, even if it will be Dual-Core. I want to have as much processing power going to the game as possible.
I don’t know how many processes Windows Vista comes after install, but I can hopefully shutdown any services I’m not going to use.
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I’ll be upgrading one of my PCs after Christmas. My aim is update my platform completely and re-use the old components in a second standalone PC running a dual boot of Fedora and XP.
My current system is showing some age – an AMD Athlon 3200+, GeForce 6200, Audigy2 Sound card on an nForce 2 MB with AGP and ATA-133.
Ideally I need an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core, GeForce 8800, Creative XFire sound card, nForce 500 series MB, and a bump up to 2GB RAM since Vista will likely take a large chunk out of this compared to even XP. I also need an SATA drive since I’m still on ATA. Even more, I want to get rid of the current CRT monitor I use and replace it with at least a 20inch LCD (which requires it have Hi Definition support since I’ll have it for at least 5 years or more as my primary viewer).
I’ll be counting pennies in January…;)
Yeah, I’ve been planning out what I’m going to buy and the cost on the Computers page. I’ve had my old systems for 4 and 6 years respectively. I think it is time I have something new or at least upgrade the old to be relatively new.
I was thinking about a 20in Wide Screen also, since it would help with seeing the code without wrapping and for Vista (the sidebar should be cool, but I’ve heard that it eats resources like mad).