I Need Some New PC Advice
Thursday, July 24, 2008 by PoSmedley | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
* I tried posting this 3 times in the Personal Computing section, but the content would never show and I am unable to post any replies in thatg section as well.
Okay..so ZA starts telling me my IP is under attack by some IP as soon as I boot my PC. After 20 or so of these alerts in 3 minutes, ZA shuts down and Avast starts popping up virus alerts quicker than I can send them to the vault. About 25 or so (Literally) alerts later, everything goes apeshit.
My taskbar starts coming and going. Nothing 'WIndows' will work right because as soon as I open it, it starts vanishing with the taskbar. Avast..I run it ans it finds nothing. It won't let me see whats in the vault. I ran it 3 times. I did a diskcheck...it says all is fine. Run Avast and spybot in safemosde..it says all is fine. Can't tun Trends Home call. I run Hijack this and the parser cannot parse the log and says there is a fatal error in the log that will not let it parse.
My systsem is fried. After a year of upgrades (2 gb memory, a 5500 Nvidia card, etc) it seems all is lost. There is a good chance the memory is infected and I have no way to even tell by what.
SO..here is the situation. I have a new Acer 19" widescreen monitor, so I m good there. I just need the rest.(maybe a new keyboard) With the baby and all (life, etc.) I am on a budget...but, because I have the monitor, I have a chance to do a little better on the CPU than the little Compaq that got me through these past 5 years.
Budget..I (my wife) would like to see me keep it under $400. It needs to able to handle all the SD programs graphically (per pixel) etc. I don't have a clue about 64 bit except the complaints I see about lack of support, etc. AND, I guess I will make the Vista leap. I love to do my graphics, love music. I was looking for one that had the memory, HD, and graphics card I wanted and just the OS without all the garbage thrown in. My step-son got an e-machine for Xmas from his Dad. I have never been impressed with them. (We have three dead ones at the office that didn't last a year). He has Vista Basic and it runs nice. I hate to ask because I can imagine the negative feedback..but any thoughts on emachines are welcome.
Here is what I am looking at currently, to give you an idea. Advice, warnings, better deals are all welcome. The last one is really closer to what I want. I don't know if any of them will meet my graphic needs to run dESKTOPx, wb AND ALL THAT. I'm also looking for the most memory and HD for my money. My little compaq only had 80GB and it was about 70% used because I save all my graphics for reference and such for PSP.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3809126&CatId=2627
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3718399&CatId=2629
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3876222&CatId=2627
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3776545&CatId=2627
I am open to suggestions.
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Reply #63 Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:30 PM
That's probably because they are DDR1 RAM and your new PC takes DDR2. Thing is, DDR2 RAM (while newer and better) is actually cheaper these days than DDR1, so you should be able to upgrade to 2gb fairly inexpensively. Dunno about in the US but a 1gb stick of DDR2 800 is around $50 - $60 here in Oz, depending on the retailer.
Reply #65 Friday, August 1, 2008 2:32 AM
That'd be nice here... but we've always paid more for the same PC parts... something to do with the exchange rate and various gov't taxes imposed on PC related stuff gouging a few more dollars out of us....
Actually, a (very) recent check with my local store (like about 2 mins ago) revealed that prices have dropped since I last bought RAM and I can now get a 2x1gb sticks of DDR2 800 for AU$39.00... whereas most larger stores are selling the same sticks for between AU$45 - AU$65.
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Reply #61 Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:32 PM
It helps with caching(readyboost will put files it would normally cache to the HD into the flash drive,much quicker)...on systems with a gig or less of memory...above that and its not really doing anything.If you get one cheap...they are great to have anyways.