Hi there.
I currently have a computer i bought in 2008, it's pretty old.
It's a Dell Optiplex GX 280 tower. I use it for bussiness, but I would like to upgrade the CPU to an intel i7 quad core.
Though the max my motherboard can support is a Intel Pentium 4 single core 2.8GHZ (which is what i have, 1 physical core with hyper threading enabled = 2 logical cores, quite nice).
I'm not a gamer.. at all. But it would be nice from time to time to watch some HD movies and presentations, though my 32MB integrated video memory makes it lag a lot.
So should I buy a barebone kit that support all of my current stuff:
500GB Sata Hard drive, CD - DRIVE, 1 GB x 4 DDR2 Ram, (also bought a ATI Readon X 1550 3D 64 bit card, which doesn't work on my computer.. cause it's 32bit).
Or should I just leave it as is, or maybe buy a new computer overall?
What do you suggest?
I currently have a computer i bought in 2008, it's pretty old.
It's a Dell Optiplex GX 280 tower. I use it for bussiness, but I would like to upgrade the CPU to an intel i7 quad core.
Though the max my motherboard can support is a Intel Pentium 4 single core 2.8GHZ (which is what i have, 1 physical core with hyper threading enabled = 2 logical cores, quite nice).
I'm not a gamer.. at all. But it would be nice from time to time to watch some HD movies and presentations, though my 32MB integrated video memory makes it lag a lot.
So should I buy a barebone kit that support all of my current stuff:
500GB Sata Hard drive, CD - DRIVE, 1 GB x 4 DDR2 Ram, (also bought a ATI Readon X 1550 3D 64 bit card, which doesn't work on my computer.. cause it's 32bit).
Or should I just leave it as is, or maybe buy a new computer overall?
What do you suggest?