Hello Sluggers,
At risk of starting a hardware holy war, I turn to the Sluggers for
their advice and expertise. Finally convinced my wife that the old
computer is "old". Want to keep it under $1000 if possible.
First I am going to get a big usb hardrive to start with and store all
of my data from my present system. Looking at the Maxtor. Comments?
Following are lots of random comments/thoughts.
Most important. Should I go 64 bit? , remembering that this will be my
last board for many years, and, this is where I want strong opinions.
For the motherboard! So many different brands and types - very
confusing. I am kind of partial to the AMD processor as I have been
using them for years. Have seen lots of criticism of ASUS lately. Is
heat a big problem? Would prefer a board without all kinds of built in
stuff like sound and video. PCI slots?, or what is the other? agp?
Would need plenty of USB and at least one serial port for my modem. No
parallell ports needed.
Want a pretty decent video card, but not one of those super(expensive)
ones. 3D of course. (Maybe someday Linux will have games)
Kind of afraid of the nvidia cards. Hear all of the horror stories with
changing drivers everytime you do something to your system. (comments?)
Decent multichannel sound card. Not too fancy because I can't hear very
well anyway.
Already have a 40 gig IBM hardrive that I could switch over. But it is
almost two years old. Should I abandon that and go sata? Remember I
will have the USB external.
Would love to get a big flatscreen monitor but I am afraid that would
break the bank.
OK Sluggers all opinions are solicited here about what I have asked
about or not asked about. If you were going to do this what would you
do? You don't have to answer every question. Just where you have strong
opinions/experience.
Last but not least, where would you BUY all of this stuff.
Bob S.
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