23rd March 2006, 4:09 PM
Why would you need to upgrade your OS? Just use it on the new hardware. I've helped people go through that whole process. A call to MS takes care of XP Home issues well enough.
Like I said, I upgraded EVERYTHING in my PC, right down to the powersupply. Standards are changing fairly rapidly at this point, so my RAM, my video card, nothing worked in my new machine. I kept the keyboard and mouse and the frickin' case (oh, and the moniter, that thing still has several years left on it). Again, it all depends on where you shop. I can help you build one that'll play today's games with full features and shave off at least $500 off that estimate of yours easy. It'll basically just be a clone of what I just went to, and I DID upgrade my hard drive.
Like I said, I upgraded EVERYTHING in my PC, right down to the powersupply. Standards are changing fairly rapidly at this point, so my RAM, my video card, nothing worked in my new machine. I kept the keyboard and mouse and the frickin' case (oh, and the moniter, that thing still has several years left on it). Again, it all depends on where you shop. I can help you build one that'll play today's games with full features and shave off at least $500 off that estimate of yours easy. It'll basically just be a clone of what I just went to, and I DID upgrade my hard drive.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)