Buying New Components

Hi everyone,

I've recently discovered bad RAM in my machine and also that my Hard Drive may be causing restarts and so I am looking to buy a new hard drive, new RAM (I have 1 512 Block still so the same type again), and also a new Graphics card. I was wondering what people would recommend based on my current system, as I want to use my PC mainly for music production, but also for normal apps, internet, and games.

Thanks for your time, cheers

Mike


My current system is:

CPU: AMD Athlon XP, 2000 MHz (15 x 133) 2400+
Motherboard name: ASUS A7N266-VM (3 PCI, 1 AGO, 2DIMM, AUdio, Video)
Motherboard Chipset: nVIDIA nForce 220 (DDR)
System Memory: 480 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type: Award Medallion (11/19/020
COM1 and COM2
ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
(NEED TO ADD RAM)

Graphics:
Video Adaptor: NVIDIA GeForce2 Integrated CPU (32MB)
3D Accelerator: nVIDIA nFOrce
(NEED TO CHANGE GRAPHICS)

Audio: Creative Audigy Platinum SB0090
(MAY CHANGE SOUNDCARD)

Storage
IDE Controller: Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Disk Drive: Maxtor 6Y120L0 (120GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
LITE-ON COMBO LTC-4816H (DVD: 16x, CD:48x/24x/48xDVD-ROM/CD
(NEED TO CHANGE HARD DRIVE)

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 117232MB

 

What do you plan on doing with this set-up? kinda need to know that 1st...

 

I would reccomend getting a new machine. do you have a video card slot?

 

oops, you already have what u wanna do....my bad... A new x-fi soundcard should do very well for music stuff. If you're into modern games then i'd reccomend a brand spankin' new system, that stuff is pretty outdated

 

Yeh not too worried on the games side, may play MOH, Call of Duty, but will probably get a new PC later this year, so a graphics card I can swap over might be useful, not sure with regards compatibility, same with a new hard-drive

Thanks

Mike

 

it's gonna be hard to swap over to a new graphics card later if you purchase an AGP card. I would spend $300 and upgrade that comp to use as a secondary comp later (you can always find a use for a second comp ). You can get an AGP Geforce 6600 or ATI equivelent graphics card ($100-$150), a stick of 512 RAM, and 200 or 250 GB hard drive for about $150. Later on when you get a new comp, you can use this one as a file server, game server, or whatever you want.

note- I didn't look into other things that your mobo might support like dual channel memory. I just went off of what is on your posts

 

Cheers I think I'll do that, am a student now, so hopefully when I'm earning I can afford a new PC, and have a working 2nd PC,

Thanks,

Mike