New Computer delivered!
It has been 4 years! 4 years since I last bought my computer and it is time for an upgrade. It has only been within the last 6 months that I began to feel the strain of a low speced graphics card (nVidia 7800GTX 256mb) pulling me back when it came to gaming.
Everything else is perfect, but the problem is that the motherboard is too old to support some of the newer features (such as SATA2, PCI-E 16x etc) so as a result I am just going to replace the entire lot. (Except for the soundcard, thats fine)
As always I obsess over the specs, checking all the fine details, reading reviews, pre-plan upgrade paths etc… but since I never really do upgrade or overclock, I just bought what seemed to work.
Heres what I bought:
- Western Digital WD2500AAKS Caviar SE 250GB 7200RPM SATAII/300 16MB Cache – OEM
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5 GHz (FSB 1333MHz) Socket 775 L2 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
- Asus P5Q3 DELUXE/WIFI-AP P45 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
- Inno3D 9800GT i-Chill Edition 512MB DDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card
- Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Full Tower Case – No PSU
- Antec NeoPower 550W Modular PSU With 80mm Low Speed/noise Fan 18db
- Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz/PC3-10666 XMS3 DHX Memory Kit
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate – Licence and media – 1 PC – OEM – DVD – 64-bit – English
That should do the job at least for another 2 years. Will hopefully have it up and running sometime tonight :)
The old machine will get cleaned up and given to my darling sister to replace her old slug of a Cellery.