catmandu
Pattern Altitude
Four years ago I did my first DIY computer. Served us well until this weekend. Using t/s flowcharts I found online, seems it is either the mobo or CPU, and I don't have spares to isolate, plus they are old and slow.
So, rather than my usual reasoned, well thought out planning, I just said "let's go to Newegg with $200" and ended up with these new items:
BIOSTAR TFORCE TA790GX 128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core Processor - Retail
Patriot Viper 4GB ( 2 x 2GB ) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
$220 bucks delivered, after rebates, but I splurged on the HDD, since media files are starting to eat up space. I believe this will work fine for us, as this is the teen's compurter, doing mostly online media and communication, with a little home media thrown in (connects to a 720p screen, where we watch downloaded shows, etc.) I will re-use the Antec Sonata case w/ 380W p/s, the Samsung DVD RW, wireless keyboard and mouse.
I also have two Western Digital 40G SATA hd's, the most important being the former boot drive. I would love to just plug the old boot drive in and go, but I assume there will be all sorts of driver issues. So do I just start a new Windows XP install and migrate stuff from the old drives?
Any obvious gotcha's or hints on making this less troublesome?
Thanks,
Mike
So, rather than my usual reasoned, well thought out planning, I just said "let's go to Newegg with $200" and ended up with these new items:
BIOSTAR TFORCE TA790GX 128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core Processor - Retail
Patriot Viper 4GB ( 2 x 2GB ) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
$220 bucks delivered, after rebates, but I splurged on the HDD, since media files are starting to eat up space. I believe this will work fine for us, as this is the teen's compurter, doing mostly online media and communication, with a little home media thrown in (connects to a 720p screen, where we watch downloaded shows, etc.) I will re-use the Antec Sonata case w/ 380W p/s, the Samsung DVD RW, wireless keyboard and mouse.
I also have two Western Digital 40G SATA hd's, the most important being the former boot drive. I would love to just plug the old boot drive in and go, but I assume there will be all sorts of driver issues. So do I just start a new Windows XP install and migrate stuff from the old drives?
Any obvious gotcha's or hints on making this less troublesome?
Thanks,
Mike