hey PC guru's...

Its time again for an upgrade for my computer. Use it mostly for gaming and movies.

I'm thinking upgrading CPU (prefer AMD) / MB / VC & Ram...

what is a good combo?

cheers

Just built a new machine for my dad..

Intel core2quad Q9400
Asus P5P43TD-PRO
8GB DDR3 1333 Mhz Kingston RAM

Also added in Asus GF9500GT 1GB Graphics Card and a 1TB hard disk. Machine really flies and works really well for him. His currently going through some of his holiday videos and editing them.

Really quite a nice machine

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Osama Bin Hooning
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Perth-Wrx

Im also using a machine with this CPU, Motherboard and Graphics but with
4GB 1666 Mhz RAM. No complaints, runs superfast and has good graphics.

hey mate just wondering what your going to do with 8 gig Ram ??

are you using 64bit windows ?

because any other windows is only going to see about 3.1gig there abouts

Hey Mate,

Yeah using 64 bit Windows 7 RC. His doing a bit of video editing and complications of holiday photos etc. I'm also running the 64bit version on my lappy with 4GB of ram.

These days ram is cheap as chips, and it really makes the difference in how fast a machine performs. So more the merrier!

I'm yet to find anything that doesn't work under 64 bit windows, including alot of legacy hardware like printers and scanners that i've had to use. All the common applications install fine.

The biggest thing i've found is retraining myself from downloading x86 versions to now selecting the x64 bit!

**edit**

With regards to upgrading hardware, basically the requirement is to have a processor that is x64 compatible, and also a main board that supports x64 as well. You can check the spec's of your CPU/Main Board on the manufacturers website and it will state if it's x64 compatible.

Pretty much everything thats been manufactured in the last year or so should be x64 ready, however because of the problems they experienced with the initial x64 versions of windows xp, it got quite the bad reputation so it hasn't become common place yet.

In the server world, 2008 server and 2007 Exchange have only been released as 64bit versions. I predict that the next version of windows will most likely take the same path.

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Osama Bin Hooning
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Perth-Wrx

yes will have 64bit windows

running 2 screens currently, gaming & surfing net and they are lagging hence i think it was time to upgrade

what MB & CPU do you have currently?

AMD 5200 Dual Core
Asus M2N32 WS PRO
8MB DDR800

8gb?

RAM is cheap as chips (excuse the pun)

The min I would be getting is 4GB but you can never have enough RAM.

8GB will need a 64 Bit Windows to access that amount but most hardware and software works on a 64bit environment now days.