purchasing a new computer - any suggestions
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 by gmc2 | Discussion: Personal Computing
My wife has given me permission to buy a new computer. As I haven't kept up with all of the latest inovations and specifications I am wondering what kind of things I should be looking for and some of the better performing aspects. I know that I want memory, lots of memory but power supplies, graphics cards and other esoteric considerations is a lot of info to sift through.
So, where do I start, looking at an upper limit of $3KUS.
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Reply #62 Friday, March 27, 2009 4:05 PM
wow, a highjacked thread, entertaining, glad the info was relevant.
So, I think I know where I'm going with this and I have incorporated many of your suggestions, thanks all, it has been much appreciated.
greg
Reply #63 Friday, March 27, 2009 4:07 PM
Yeah, we have a habit of going offtopic...
Reply #64 Friday, March 27, 2009 4:26 PM
Sorry bout that. Haha well I guess I'd want to upgrade eventually because I'm sure the 9600 GT will be very obsolete...I mean its become a notebook graphics card (albeit not the 1 gig version I have). I think it would fit in the case unless its much, much bigger but I dont actually know the size of it and SLI...well...maybe one day 
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*begs gmc2 for forgiveness for jacking his thread*
Reply #65 Friday, March 27, 2009 5:07 PM
guys, like I said, it was entertaining and relevent. with all of your help, I wouldn't really complain, thanks again
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Reply #61 Friday, March 27, 2009 12:41 PM
It's compatible, but I don't know if it'll physically fit in either the board or the case. (This used to be a concern with some of the higher end cards; ask someone else to be positive-not really my department.) It should fit, but it'll probably hang off the end of the board some.
You won't of course have the option of running SLI but I assume you're aware of that, and I doubt you'd dump that much cash on it anyway.
You will almost certainly need to replace the PSU, since I can't find hard specs on that, either.
Why would you want to upgrade now, though? Can't run Crysis high enough?
What reason would you have to invest more into that system at present?