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Hello,
I am new here and seeking advice for an upgrade. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
My PC is mainly used to check email, watch netflix, and store some personal pictures. Over the next few months I will need to be able to use my PC for video editing and storing large amounts of data. My budget is $1000. These are my current components
ATX PC Case
MSI motherboard with PCI, socket 939 and DDR2 RAM slots
2 GB RAM
AGP video card
Dual core, 4300 MHZ CPU
150 GB IDE hard drive
CDRW ROM
Unknown power suppy
24 inch CRT VGA monitor
Thanks in advance for any input!
 
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smorizio
if your getting into new pc for money. (work). look into a pre built biz machine/server that you can toss in a good gpu in. if the work your doing is large video files. you may want a fast ssd and more then one hard drive as a scratch disk. think about have more then one monitor if your using this for work/games. have your work open on one screen and email/skype on another. think about picking up a network attached storage to keep your data safe. and or a cloud back up. look up the tax laws for office pc. if it going to be used mostly for work you can have tax write offs. also talk to local sba in town see if there low cost lones/grants for start ups.
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if your getting into new pc for money. (work). look into a pre built biz machine/server that you can toss in a good gpu in. if the work your doing is large video files. you may want a fast ssd and more then one hard drive as a scratch disk. think about have more then one monitor if your using this for work/games. have your work open on one screen and email/skype on another. think about picking up a network attached storage to keep your data safe. and or a cloud back up. look up the tax laws for office pc. if it going to be used mostly for work you can have tax write offs. also talk to local sba in town see if there low cost lones/grants for start ups.
 
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