OK, I've suddenly got the opportunity of a free PC upgrade for myself as she's giving me money to build my own and she's having my old ASUS P5GD2 Premium motherboard which has a P4 3Ghz in...
I'm a bit outta touch with PC technology at the moment... What's the best mobo out at the moment? Is Intel reigning or AMD taken over as regards to CPU's? I'm not interested in SLi and I prefer it to have decent onboard (or included) sound card. The mobo has to support Serial ATA 3Gb/s as all my SATA 500GB's support it but I'm not too bothered about raid. Also would love it to have a wireless access point like my what my ASUS P5GD2 Premium motherboard has now. Also, I would like tho mobo to support the 2 pair of Corsair TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO of which I have now. Oh, it also has to support PCI-E...
I mainly use my PC for the internet as well as ripping movies and playing games (but mainly Pro Evo).
What are my options? I'm normally an ASUS freak...
Please advise a comfused PC gamer/internet nurd as I need to buy for tomorrow! Thanks in advance!
This is my PC now...
Windows XP Pro
ASUS P5GD2 Premium motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 530J "LGA775 Prescott" 3.0GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology CPU
Galaxy NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB PCI-Express
2 pair of Corsair TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO (2 X 512MB DUAL CHANNEL DDR2 5400 MATCHED
PAIR!)
ASUS Vento red ATX case
Enermax Noisetaker 600W EG701AX-VE(W) SFMA ATX2.0 SLI Compliant PSU (CA-021-EN) PSU
1 x Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740GD 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache
2 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 SATA 500 GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache
LG GSA4163B True 16x Super Multi DVD Rewriter DVD writer
Mitsumi floppy disk drive
Logitech UltraX? Media Desktop keyboard
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse
hp L1925 19" TFT
Mouse Bungee
Mouse Glide mouse mat
Sony EyeToy webcam
Creative Inspire 5300 5.1 Speakers
I'm a bit outta touch with PC technology at the moment... What's the best mobo out at the moment? Is Intel reigning or AMD taken over as regards to CPU's? I'm not interested in SLi and I prefer it to have decent onboard (or included) sound card. The mobo has to support Serial ATA 3Gb/s as all my SATA 500GB's support it but I'm not too bothered about raid. Also would love it to have a wireless access point like my what my ASUS P5GD2 Premium motherboard has now. Also, I would like tho mobo to support the 2 pair of Corsair TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO of which I have now. Oh, it also has to support PCI-E...
I mainly use my PC for the internet as well as ripping movies and playing games (but mainly Pro Evo).
What are my options? I'm normally an ASUS freak...
Please advise a comfused PC gamer/internet nurd as I need to buy for tomorrow! Thanks in advance!
This is my PC now...
Windows XP Pro
ASUS P5GD2 Premium motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 530J "LGA775 Prescott" 3.0GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology CPU
Galaxy NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB PCI-Express
2 pair of Corsair TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO (2 X 512MB DUAL CHANNEL DDR2 5400 MATCHED
PAIR!)
ASUS Vento red ATX case
Enermax Noisetaker 600W EG701AX-VE(W) SFMA ATX2.0 SLI Compliant PSU (CA-021-EN) PSU
1 x Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740GD 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache
2 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 SATA 500 GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache
LG GSA4163B True 16x Super Multi DVD Rewriter DVD writer
Mitsumi floppy disk drive
Logitech UltraX? Media Desktop keyboard
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse
hp L1925 19" TFT
Mouse Bungee
Mouse Glide mouse mat
Sony EyeToy webcam
Creative Inspire 5300 5.1 Speakers