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Can i get a new motherboard and processor, and just replace the current ones i have, because my PC is slow, and it needs to go faster. Is this possible because i have no idea what to do inside a pc, other than install PCI cards. Any help will be appreciated.
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And you could add a DVD writer to that for about £100
I just put together this cart which would be a state of the art computer:
Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3200LL Pro TwinX (2x512MB) CAS2 (MY-025-CS) X2
£181.35 £362.70
Asus ATI Radeon 9800XT/TVD 256MB & Half Life 2 Bundle - Retail (GX-019-AS)
£274.00 £274.00
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 7.1 THX - Retail (SC-017-CL)
£71.40 £71.40
Vantec Vortex Hard Drive Cooling System - Black (SY-001-VA) X2
£33.90 £67.80
OcUK Value Floppy Drive (Black) (HD-001-OK)
£6.50 £6.50
MSI D16 16x DVD-ROM (Black) - Retail (CD-010-MS)
£18.95 £18.95
Globalwin Sapphire Super Silent 19dBA 450W ATX Power Supply (CA-005-GW)
£95.00 £95.00
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition - OEM (OS-001-MS)
£55.10 £55.10
Maxtor OneTouch™ 200GB External Firewire/USB2.0 Hard Drive - Retail (HD-030-MD)
£153.00 £153.00
Akasa Rounded Floppy Cable (0.45m) - Copper Braided (CB-028-GE)
£2.90 £2.90
Akasa Rounded Ultra ATA133/100/66 IDE Cable (0.45m) - Copper Braided (CB-027-GE)
£4.90 £4.90
Akasa Serial ATA PSU Converter (CB-052-GE)
£2.95 £5.90
Akasa Serial ATA 45cm Silver Data Cable (CB-053-GE)
£3.50 £7.00
Intel Pentium 4 Case Badge (CA-001-IN)
£0.70 £0.70
OcUK Case Badges (CA-002-OC)
£0.70 £0.70
AT/ATX Mains Cable (CA-000-GE)
£2.00 £2.00
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC)
£5.75 £5.75
Hauppauge WinTV Go (VE-000-HA)
£29.95 £29.95
Western Digital Raptor 74GB Serial ATA 10000RPM - OEM (HD-015-WD) X2
£149.50 £299.00
Coolermaster Wave Master - Black (No PSU) (CA-047-CM)
£122.50 £122.50
Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" 3.4GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-049-IN)
£245.00 £245.00
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe "Canterwood" (Socket 478) Motherboard (MB-029-AS)
£109.95 £109.95
Coolermaster Jet 4 ICB-V83 Cooler (Socket 478) (HS-012-CM)
£25.95 £25.95
Subtotal £1,966.65
VAT £344.20
Total £2,310.85
It even has a backup USB Hard Drive.
Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3200LL Pro TwinX (2x512MB) CAS2 (MY-025-CS) X2
£181.35 £362.70
Asus ATI Radeon 9800XT/TVD 256MB & Half Life 2 Bundle - Retail (GX-019-AS)
£274.00 £274.00
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 7.1 THX - Retail (SC-017-CL)
£71.40 £71.40
Vantec Vortex Hard Drive Cooling System - Black (SY-001-VA) X2
£33.90 £67.80
OcUK Value Floppy Drive (Black) (HD-001-OK)
£6.50 £6.50
MSI D16 16x DVD-ROM (Black) - Retail (CD-010-MS)
£18.95 £18.95
Globalwin Sapphire Super Silent 19dBA 450W ATX Power Supply (CA-005-GW)
£95.00 £95.00
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition - OEM (OS-001-MS)
£55.10 £55.10
Maxtor OneTouch™ 200GB External Firewire/USB2.0 Hard Drive - Retail (HD-030-MD)
£153.00 £153.00
Akasa Rounded Floppy Cable (0.45m) - Copper Braided (CB-028-GE)
£2.90 £2.90
Akasa Rounded Ultra ATA133/100/66 IDE Cable (0.45m) - Copper Braided (CB-027-GE)
£4.90 £4.90
Akasa Serial ATA PSU Converter (CB-052-GE)
£2.95 £5.90
Akasa Serial ATA 45cm Silver Data Cable (CB-053-GE)
£3.50 £7.00
Intel Pentium 4 Case Badge (CA-001-IN)
£0.70 £0.70
OcUK Case Badges (CA-002-OC)
£0.70 £0.70
AT/ATX Mains Cable (CA-000-GE)
£2.00 £2.00
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC)
£5.75 £5.75
Hauppauge WinTV Go (VE-000-HA)
£29.95 £29.95
Western Digital Raptor 74GB Serial ATA 10000RPM - OEM (HD-015-WD) X2
£149.50 £299.00
Coolermaster Wave Master - Black (No PSU) (CA-047-CM)
£122.50 £122.50
Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" 3.4GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-049-IN)
£245.00 £245.00
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe "Canterwood" (Socket 478) Motherboard (MB-029-AS)
£109.95 £109.95
Coolermaster Jet 4 ICB-V83 Cooler (Socket 478) (HS-012-CM)
£25.95 £25.95
Subtotal £1,966.65
VAT £344.20
Total £2,310.85
It even has a backup USB Hard Drive.
Aoe wrote:
> Thanks alot dude. And one more question. Do you think i should try and
> get this computer working faster, or just build one from scratch like
> i've been thinking of doing?
You could build one from scratch, as even with the state of the art stuff your PC wouldn't run that fast because of slow hard drives and slow CD drives. You could also get a really nice case. From scratch for the tower (ima asuming you would use your current Monitor, speakers, mouse and keyboard, etc) it could cost from £1000 for a faily good, to £2500 for a state of the art, with RAIDed Raptor Hard Drives with cooling units, 2GB of Cosair RAM, 3.4GHz Intel CPU, Asus ATI 9800XT 256MB, 7.1 Creative Audigy sound card, and the works!
> Thanks alot dude. And one more question. Do you think i should try and
> get this computer working faster, or just build one from scratch like
> i've been thinking of doing?
You could build one from scratch, as even with the state of the art stuff your PC wouldn't run that fast because of slow hard drives and slow CD drives. You could also get a really nice case. From scratch for the tower (ima asuming you would use your current Monitor, speakers, mouse and keyboard, etc) it could cost from £1000 for a faily good, to £2500 for a state of the art, with RAIDed Raptor Hard Drives with cooling units, 2GB of Cosair RAM, 3.4GHz Intel CPU, Asus ATI 9800XT 256MB, 7.1 Creative Audigy sound card, and the works!
Thanks alot dude. And one more question. Do you think i should try and get this computer working faster, or just build one from scratch like i've been thinking of doing?
If your not confident you could get a local Pc technition to do it for you.
Also, if you do it yourself, remeber to ground yourself by touching a radiator or similar, or your new parts will fry.
Also, if you do it yourself, remeber to ground yourself by touching a radiator or similar, or your new parts will fry.
Aoe wrote:
> Anyway. Moving on from that. How hard is it to install all of these
> things?
Not too difficult, as the motherboard manual tells you most of how to do things.
http://www.pcmech.com/article.php?cat=&id=282 tells you how to build a whole PC form scratch, and so shows you how to do all that you would have to do.
> Anyway. Moving on from that. How hard is it to install all of these
> things?
Not too difficult, as the motherboard manual tells you most of how to do things.
http://www.pcmech.com/article.php?cat=&id=282 tells you how to build a whole PC form scratch, and so shows you how to do all that you would have to do.
Aoe wrote:
> I never expected it to come to that price. Still a bit confused about
> what a couple of those things are though. The 3rd and 4th ones down
> (i think)
Corsair is the RAM
Asus ATI Radeon is the new GFx card (as your current is inbuilt it means you will need a new one as most Motherboards do not have inbuilt graphics).
> I never expected it to come to that price. Still a bit confused about
> what a couple of those things are though. The 3rd and 4th ones down
> (i think)
Corsair is the RAM
Asus ATI Radeon is the new GFx card (as your current is inbuilt it means you will need a new one as most Motherboards do not have inbuilt graphics).
Anyway. Moving on from that. How hard is it to install all of these things?
Ummm. Nevermind. Names are confusing though.
I never expected it to come to that price. Still a bit confused about what a couple of those things are though. The 3rd and 4th ones down (i think)
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