Hey there folks New First time member of Tom's Hardware here! Anyway i am still using a 10+ year old Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p with i5 2500 4gb 1333 500gb sata 3.00 main drive with NO Gpu, i am sick of it and am going to smash the crap out of it with my baseball bat once this build is ready. (100% srz no laughs here).
So I initially intended to wait till the next month or so, but a local retailer has a promo thats unbeatable for the 2 cpu's only. I am having trouble on deciding if i should just get the el cheapo Athlon 200GE, get the cheapest 4gb x 2 generic ram kit or if i should get the 2200g and just get a real 16gb set kit which won't need an upgrade later. I intend to use this build to play a little resident evil 2 on 720 lowest settings and light multi tasking along with daily spamming of tabs in chrome.I am also finding myself hard pressed to take the 2200g over the 200ge because it's almost twice the price in difference ($66 AUD or $45 US) i likely wont play any other games either and for the month or so i will have it i doubt i will need the extra grunt. However after seeing how much faster/better the 2200g is despite the price i am more leaning toward not upgrading next month and getting a 8gb x2 kit and it should last me just as long as this excuse for a computer did.. The other issue i have is that i was intending to keep the 200ge as a guest/secondary computer when the next gen comes out and i fully upgrade. Thanks all and sorry if it was abit a bit of a long question/thread!
So I initially intended to wait till the next month or so, but a local retailer has a promo thats unbeatable for the 2 cpu's only. I am having trouble on deciding if i should just get the el cheapo Athlon 200GE, get the cheapest 4gb x 2 generic ram kit or if i should get the 2200g and just get a real 16gb set kit which won't need an upgrade later. I intend to use this build to play a little resident evil 2 on 720 lowest settings and light multi tasking along with daily spamming of tabs in chrome.I am also finding myself hard pressed to take the 2200g over the 200ge because it's almost twice the price in difference ($66 AUD or $45 US) i likely wont play any other games either and for the month or so i will have it i doubt i will need the extra grunt. However after seeing how much faster/better the 2200g is despite the price i am more leaning toward not upgrading next month and getting a 8gb x2 kit and it should last me just as long as this excuse for a computer did.. The other issue i have is that i was intending to keep the 200ge as a guest/secondary computer when the next gen comes out and i fully upgrade. Thanks all and sorry if it was abit a bit of a long question/thread!
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