Buying a new desktop pc
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:04 pm
After finally opening the purse strings for my travels, a knackered netbook and shiny new phone, next on the list is a new desktop PC.
There is likely not much wrong with the old rhino but the routine of backing everything up, formatting the HD then reinstalling fresh linux and windows OS doesn't seem to do too much good anymore, and with a little sack of gold nuggets under my bed, I want to bring work station up to speed.
The screen I have is big enough and lovely enough to keep, the infra red mouse and keyboard fine and dandy so all I need is the box itself. With my budget set at around $500 with room to go up or down I am looking for a chipset and motherboard which will greatly improve the processing speed. Since I have been out of the game for a while and have little idea presently how much processors have improved over the last few years I am hopeful of finding some guidance on here to augment my own investigations in other screens.
I want the system to...
move like lightning
play HD movies with ease
browse the internet
move files
administer weedguru
word processing
solid internet capabilities with good connectivity with my htc one sv phone
run quietly
manage several tasks at once
Since I already own an official copy of windows 7 64 bit I need not purchase an operating system (I assume?) and also I have become consistently impressed and happy with lubuntu and ubuntu. The aim will be a dual boot system.
I will grab my particulars for the current set-up when I return home to Melbourne soon, but in the mean time, can anyone make any useful suggestions in terms of where to buy and what to buy and whether its cost effective and simple for a beginner to put together my own system from buying the main components individually?
Cheers in advance to anyone who helps...
There is likely not much wrong with the old rhino but the routine of backing everything up, formatting the HD then reinstalling fresh linux and windows OS doesn't seem to do too much good anymore, and with a little sack of gold nuggets under my bed, I want to bring work station up to speed.
The screen I have is big enough and lovely enough to keep, the infra red mouse and keyboard fine and dandy so all I need is the box itself. With my budget set at around $500 with room to go up or down I am looking for a chipset and motherboard which will greatly improve the processing speed. Since I have been out of the game for a while and have little idea presently how much processors have improved over the last few years I am hopeful of finding some guidance on here to augment my own investigations in other screens.
I want the system to...
move like lightning
play HD movies with ease
browse the internet
move files
administer weedguru
word processing
solid internet capabilities with good connectivity with my htc one sv phone
run quietly
manage several tasks at once
Since I already own an official copy of windows 7 64 bit I need not purchase an operating system (I assume?) and also I have become consistently impressed and happy with lubuntu and ubuntu. The aim will be a dual boot system.
I will grab my particulars for the current set-up when I return home to Melbourne soon, but in the mean time, can anyone make any useful suggestions in terms of where to buy and what to buy and whether its cost effective and simple for a beginner to put together my own system from buying the main components individually?
Cheers in advance to anyone who helps...