Upgrade season is upon us! Well for me anyway. Currently I have:
- P4 1.6Ghz 400Mhz FSB
- 768Mb 266Mhz DDR SDRAM
- 2x 40Gb Hard Disks
- Liteon CD-RW 32x
- Maudio Delta 66 with I/O box
- MSI Nvidia Geforce FX5200 128mb
Now my Motherboard is quite old (QDI Platinix 2D) and the 400Mhz Front Side Bus is pretty slow. These days CPU's have 800Mhz, which means they can talk to the other bits of the 'puter quicker. There's things on the mobo (tech-speak for motherboard, ooh get me) for changing the FSB, but it's old and no-one really explains on the web whether I can use a higher FSB CPU or not. So the best CPU I can get that my motherboard can handle is 2.8 Ghz, which is pretty good anyway and shouldn't cost too much. Then of course, there's overclocking, but for now I am adding to and upgrading this setup with:
- Arctic Freezer4 CPU cooler + silent fan (review)
- Gigabyte Geforce 6800 GT 256mb (the one without a fan - silent, see?)
- Another 1Gb of RAM (so I'll have 1.5 Gb!)
- DVD Dual Layer RW+/-
- better, bigger hard disks (3 years is quite a long time to work for a hard disk)
- ...and hopefully a 2.8Ghz p4!
If you don't know what any of this means, it means GOOD, Very, Very good. Excellent, in fact. Of course I should upgrade my Motherboard too, but that's getting a bit too expensive... But at least I'll be able to play Battlefield 2!
Oh, and my music recording program - Sonar 4 - shouldn't get so upset when playing lots of tracks and effects all at once. It's not just about the game honest, this upgrade is well overdue!
