how much am i missing out on?

[mistaken]

I am finnally ready to upgrade my computer.

i am currently running a
1.4 gh 1600+ thunderbird
with 3/4 g of ram
and a bargin xfx nvidia 5200 graphics card
with a 40g hard drive


now i really feel the pinch when i comes to hard drive space, and decompressing a file or doing digital editing.

I really want to build the over clock rig

pentium D 820
with 1 g of ram (possibly 2g if i can get it for less 150)
a mid range nvidia 7800 or 7600 gt
with atleast 250g hard drive

I work with new computers all day long, but i don't see any real difrence in their genral response. I don't really want to spend 1000 if i am not going to see any performance gain in anything except games and video editing. (i do like to multi task and can drag down my system that way) I am just looking for some general impressions.

thanks

 

[benjamin]

I am finnally ready to upgrade my computer.

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I work with new computers all day long, but i don't see any real difrence in their genral response. I don't really want to spend 1000 if i am not going to see any performance gain in anything except games and video editing. (i do like to multi task and can drag down my system that way) I am just looking for some general impressions.

If something already happens instantly, really, how can it get any faster?

-- Sadly not even the latest processors are clairvoyant. I think we'd need a new socket for that.

 

[1Tanker]

I am finnally ready to upgrade my computer.

i am currently running a
1.4 gh 1600+ thunderbird
with 3/4 g of ram
and a bargin xfx nvidia 5200 graphics card
with a 40g hard drive


now i really feel the pinch when i comes to hard drive space, and decompressing a file or doing digital editing.

I really want to build the over clock rig

pentium D 820
with 1 g of ram (possibly 2g if i can get it for less 150)
a mid range nvidia 7800 or 7600 gt
with atleast 250g hard drive

I work with new computers all day long, but i don't see any real difrence in their genral response. I don't really want to spend 1000 if i am not going to see any performance gain in anything except games and video editing. (i do like to multi task and can drag down my system that way) I am just looking for some general impressions.

thanks

Get the Pentium 920 D, it's similarly priced to the 820, runs cooler, has 2MB L2 cache/core, and will overclock like there's no tomorrow.

 

[NinjaRigger]

One question... Do you game? if so... then theres some minimu specs you should look at... but if you dont.... why not go cheap? and get a nice sized monitor... or turn it into a windows media center pc and spend the extra on a nice LCD or Plasma tv with it... what i would do