24th March 2006, 8:57 PM
Quote: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.
DJ, remember that I have ME. I'm not exactly enamored of getting XP six to nine months before Vista comes out... if I'm going to have to go to a new, vastly different OS, I'd rather it not be one that'll be obsolete in MS's opinion a few months later... AGAIN... (win3.1 in early 1995, win95 in summer 1997, win98 in late 1999/early 2000, winme in september 2001, within a few months of XP's release...)
Quote:As far as video cards, yeah the price of those has jumped more than anything else. I was hoping for a bit of a dive, like the Great RAM Price Drop of ages gone by, back when RAM got so cheap they were giving it away in cereal, but that hasn't borne out. Still, as I said, I can get you a good price on a complete computer upgrade in spite of that.
How so?
Quote:Here's the one thing you should keep in mind. eBay exists.
I've never bought anything online... not myself at least (this computer was ordered online, but I didn't pay for it myself...)
And anyway, this thing's too old to be worth much of anything. The 110GBs of HDD are nice (full, I need more, but nice) (40+80), but I want to keep those... but a P4 1.5ghz with a 32MB Geforce2, 384MB PC800 RDRAM, a DVD drive, SBLive! Value...
Quote:Depends on what you want. I got a satisfactory GeForce 6800 with 256 MB of video RAM for about $200. I can run my games in the highest resolution my moniter can support with an average frame rate of around 30-40 FPS. If I take the resolution down a few notches, I can get a steady frame rate of 60, and if I wanted to spend more, I could get a second one and likely get a steady frame rate higher than that.
I want something I'll be able to use for a few years, like this computer...