I’m a greedy man I think as I’m constantly looking at the price of components on ebuyer.com with an eye on improving my PC. I’ve not got much spare cash right now, and with Christmas approaching I’ll need to set some aside for presents, but I’m still plotting and planning and dreaming of a massive upgrade. I know it’s only been about a year since the last time I carried out some upgrades, but I’m planning a more comprehensive overhall this time. The old dual core AMD Athlon that I’ve got is starting to act quite tired, and windows XP is slowly choking to death under the bloat of installed crap that I’ve never got round to removing.
I’ve even gone as far as going through all the review websites and checking out what would give me the best bang for my buck. Tom’s Hardware and Tech Radar have been particularly helpful as ever. I’ve not gone overboard and went for the best of stuff, but I have tried to pick things that will last quite a long time and dramatically improve the current performance of my machine.
So far my plans are shaping up like this:
Intel Core i7 920 D0 – £214.87
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 iX58 – £202.30
Antec 902 Nine Hundred Two Black ATX Case – £86.99
Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive x2 – £116.22
Corsair 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz XMS3 – £133.21
Grand Total: – £753.59
Unfortunately that’s far to steep for my current financial situation. In fact for that price I could more or less get the MacBook that I’m always humming and hawing about, or I could even buy a complete computer from Mesh or some of the other specialist gaming PC retailers. Advantages being that I would get the whole package with a warranty, and various other peripherals included in the price.
I’ve already got a copy of windows 7 professional that I bought, so it would be a simple matter to wipe all the preinstalled crap off a shop bought machine and set it up however the hell I like.
GreyKodiak 