Semi-interested in upgrading my desktop, I have owned it for 6 years, It was a home built pieced together by a friend. It has treated me well. Stats:
AMD ATHLON II X2 250 Processor
3 GHZ
2 GB Memory64 Bit Windows 7
500GB Hard drive
I occasionally play video games, but only Rfactor, and other older race games, that do not require the latest. I like the concept of a laptop or a All in one because of the mobility and space, but it seems that they lack the performance and low cost of a desktop. I do have a work laptop, but I never use it, and rather not, for video games and such.
Are Asus any good, looks like I can get a dell from New egg from couple $100. do I need anything beyond 8GB memory? I would like to get at least 2TB of Hard drive space. Which Graphics card and CPU should I look for?
Asus is good, 8GB is good enough (I have 8 now on my gaming PC, had 12 in the past and couldn't find a way to use it all up, even with VMs running).
Your PC would be pretty good with just more RAM and a new video card though. A fast boot drive will speed it up a lot, using a regular slowish hard drive is the computer equivalent of driving on the cheapo all-seasons that came with your car. RAID0, or furthermore an SSD will give you very fast storage but you need a very good backup plan to go with them.
asoduk
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12/8/15 10:51 p.m.
SSD and more RAM will give you a huge performance boost on your current machine.
That's not exactly an SSD, it's a hybrid hard drive, basically it uses a small built-in SSD as a large high-speed cache, It's much cheaper per GB than a pure SSD and can be nearly as fast, but it's still carries most of the data loss risk of an SSD. Not a bad idea though, I'd say you should go for it.
I don't know if that RAM would be compatible with your computer, I'd have to know the mainboard model.
In reply to GameboyRMH:
MS-7622
That board comes up as a 790X-G45 should be DDR3, you linked DDR2 memory.
asoduk
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12/9/15 10:03 p.m.
If you're buying a SSD, get a Samsung. They are consistently faster in tests and offer the longest warranty. Some of the cheaper SSDs use older technology that makes them slower than the Samsungs and less reliable.
http://amzn.to/1OSmYUs
In reply to asoduk: $300 for 1TB is out of my range, I and going to try the WD I had good luck in the past.
