Premise 1:
Should I switch to Windows 7?
I see no immediate reason to other than to move ahead, and stop being a legacyfag. Games are starting to shift to being optimized better for 7+, and XP is starting to be left in the dust. In a year, if I remember correctly, support will be dropped for it. The problem with this, however, is that XP is exactly what I want it to be. It's customized, set up and profiled right for me. However, before I received this PC, my father decided to dick around and tweak things. That's nice and all, but now my main Harddrive is convulted as fuck and the system structuring is beat up and confusing. I thought about wiping it all together, and the thought came up as 'Why not just jump to 7 if you're going to wipe at all?' It would mean better stability, a good drive clear is a nice thing, plus a move to a recent OS that would last me another 10 or so years just as XP has.
Premise 2:
I decided, with the summer coming up, let's start saving money for a new PC!
Knowing by general rule of thumb that AMD's Quadcores are better threaded than Intel's, i'm deciding to switch over from the classic Intel/Nvidia to AMD/ATI. I'm not looking for super budgeted, playing Crysis on a $600 PC, as i'm not getting an ENTIRE PC again. I'm salvaging my monitor, speakers, heatsink, fans, case, powersupply and Harddrives as they all work well. This, in turn, would mean I am getting a new Mobo, Cell Proc, Graphic card, and 4 more GBs of RAM, to equal six as the Mobo I have picked out supports.
Dunno if you all can see this but I don't have time to screenshot it so i'll just post the link and a backup of listing the parts.
https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/MySavedWishDetail.aspx?ID=14614126
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core $180.99
OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) (I already have 2GBs of this exact same RAM.) $138.99
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO AM3 AMD 890GX SATA 6Gb/s HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard $139.99
ASUS EAH5850 DirectCU TOP/2DIS/1GD5 Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 Graphic Processor Card $339.99
Plus a cheap little headset and webcam, nothing big.
Grand total is a whopping 844 for this upgrade, would be a fortune more if I was getting everything. Assuming I cap at 1000 like I did last time, another monitor will be coming my way so I can dual screen. The reason for such a high cost of no budgeting is because my graphics card is a salvaged, older Nvidia model, and my poor little Intel core is an overclocked, overworked Dual Core 2.1 pushed to 3.0 GHz. A quad core would be so well threaded, and much smoother ride. My PC is starting to choke on the latest games, and be over all bogged down. A boot time of 30 seconds has been pushed to about a minute ten.
This is good y/n?
Nine hours and no posts.
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Report the thread. Roph will come. :3
Sorry I'm no help with this. Not good with technology oddly enough.
I would definitely go for Windows 7. My rig actually runs a lot better under 7 than it did with XP. With Win7 it's 25 seconds from start up to google chrome, and I've never experienced any (at least noticeable) drop in FPS, and sometimes I actually get better fps.
As for parts, I have an AMD Black Edition processor, and love it. It's a 64bit dual core, but I have never experienced a problem with it. Black Editions are also very easy to overclock; you can do it through the BIOS. I also have a ASUS mobo, and it's good, too.
AMD Athlon II X4 630 Propus 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Processor Model ADX630WFGIBOX (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103704)
OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model OCZ3RPR1600LV4GK (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227527)
GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H AM3 AMD 890GX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128435)
XFX HD-577X-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150462)