My computer is 3-4 years. I bought it pre-built and it isn't too good. Just over a year ago I bought a Radeon 6870 and better power supply (500w). The rest of the parts are from the original purchase and listed below:
HP Pavilion p6230y
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 810
RAM - 8 GB DDR3 @ 533MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard - Foxconn Aloe, chipset vendor and model is AMD 785GSB700
Graphics - Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 (upgrade from Radeon 4200)
Hard drive - 733GB Seagate ST3750528AS SCSI Disk Device (RAID)
PSU - Antec EarthWatts 500W (upgrade from 300w)
Monitor - Acer X203H
It overheats a lot judging by the noise it makes when doing some simple things, I'm guessing the manufacturer put the minimum cooling that would make it run. I've found this year my PC has been noticeably slower.
Because I feel like it's only going to last another 6 months, I'm starting to think about my next system. I cannot make my own. I figure I can either 1) buy the parts, pay someone to put it together for me, and possibly use some of my components worth saving (GPU not sure if anything else is good); or 2) buy a whole new system, and maybe see if I can sell any of my old parts or my old PC as a whole.
My budget is between $800-1000 Cdn dollars. Willing to go to $1100 if it means a very impressive bang for that 100.
Thoughts? If I'm missing anything please let me know
Thanks in advance to anyone that responds!
HP Pavilion p6230y
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 810
RAM - 8 GB DDR3 @ 533MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard - Foxconn Aloe, chipset vendor and model is AMD 785GSB700
Graphics - Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 (upgrade from Radeon 4200)
Hard drive - 733GB Seagate ST3750528AS SCSI Disk Device (RAID)
PSU - Antec EarthWatts 500W (upgrade from 300w)
Monitor - Acer X203H
It overheats a lot judging by the noise it makes when doing some simple things, I'm guessing the manufacturer put the minimum cooling that would make it run. I've found this year my PC has been noticeably slower.
Because I feel like it's only going to last another 6 months, I'm starting to think about my next system. I cannot make my own. I figure I can either 1) buy the parts, pay someone to put it together for me, and possibly use some of my components worth saving (GPU not sure if anything else is good); or 2) buy a whole new system, and maybe see if I can sell any of my old parts or my old PC as a whole.
My budget is between $800-1000 Cdn dollars. Willing to go to $1100 if it means a very impressive bang for that 100.
Thoughts? If I'm missing anything please let me know
Thanks in advance to anyone that responds!
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