billhuelsman
01-28-2010, 10:04 PM
Just to let you all know, when it comes to PC's im not sharp at all when it comes to the internals which make it tick.
Having said that I have a built system that is 6 years old, with a KD 7 Raid motherboard, 1500 processor chip, old style 7200 rpm hardrive, and I think 2 gigs of DDR 333 ram. It has windows XP Home as a OS.
Cant tell you much more than that, other than its acting up more and more, running slow, locking up, and other things. Personally I think I will be much better off with a new desktop PC. Microcenter said to avoid Dell and Gateway to buy because of the hardware would need to be there brand to upgrade or fix when needs came up. They advised there house brand because everything in those units is off of there store shelf and easier to do things with if need be.
So, what should I be looking for as far as hardware is concerned? Need help with the motherboard, processor, ram, video card, and anyting else that would be considered vital. I want to last 4-6 years. What brands would you avoid? or lean too?
I found this on the pc:
Windows XP version 2002, SP3, AMD athlon XP 1800+, 1.53gz, 1.5 G of ram
Raedon 9200, Asus DRW 1608P2, standard floppy, Pri & Sec IDE controller, Via Bus IDE Controller, PCtel platinum modem, ACPI
Uniprocessor PC, LNE100TX v4 Ethernet, Com port 1 & 2, ECP Printer port, Rim virtual S port 2 com 4 & Com 5,
HPT372 UDMA /ATA 133 Raid controller,
Thats the best I can do to describe what I have.
Having said that I have a built system that is 6 years old, with a KD 7 Raid motherboard, 1500 processor chip, old style 7200 rpm hardrive, and I think 2 gigs of DDR 333 ram. It has windows XP Home as a OS.
Cant tell you much more than that, other than its acting up more and more, running slow, locking up, and other things. Personally I think I will be much better off with a new desktop PC. Microcenter said to avoid Dell and Gateway to buy because of the hardware would need to be there brand to upgrade or fix when needs came up. They advised there house brand because everything in those units is off of there store shelf and easier to do things with if need be.
So, what should I be looking for as far as hardware is concerned? Need help with the motherboard, processor, ram, video card, and anyting else that would be considered vital. I want to last 4-6 years. What brands would you avoid? or lean too?
I found this on the pc:
Windows XP version 2002, SP3, AMD athlon XP 1800+, 1.53gz, 1.5 G of ram
Raedon 9200, Asus DRW 1608P2, standard floppy, Pri & Sec IDE controller, Via Bus IDE Controller, PCtel platinum modem, ACPI
Uniprocessor PC, LNE100TX v4 Ethernet, Com port 1 & 2, ECP Printer port, Rim virtual S port 2 com 4 & Com 5,
HPT372 UDMA /ATA 133 Raid controller,
Thats the best I can do to describe what I have.