im building a new pc for my dad. His IBM Thinkpad A 31 just died (guess it would be 3-4 years old now, it has weird freezes and similar (I looked for all possible sources of non hardware error, its no good: its dead and i'm not goin to replace hardware inside a stuffed notebook)) (1.6 GHz P4m, 0.5 GB RAM, integrated ATI gfx, ...) and in the last jear was unhappy that it was very noticably slower than my pc (p4 3.2 GHz, 1 GB ram, geforce fx 5200, full of crap, ... 🙁 and yes i know its old and outdated, but i can still play everything with it)
I am however im not really sure about the gfx card. He doesnt really use his pc for anything but Word, Outlook, firefox and maybe some internet radio.
He does want this pc to be vista ready (just run it with all bells and whistles, not any gaming required at all (he usually makes me delete the standard windows games 😀 ), ie. no need for dx 10). im just going to install it on his pc when i get my copy in 2007 or 08 or whenever it will finally come out.
i was thinking along the lines of a geforce 7300 but i realise this might not be a good choice (i guess it would be way overpowered for his needs - but if you go back a generation or two will it still support vista?). How about an ATI solution?
The rest of the h/w is pretty staightforward. Something like an Athlon64 3200+ (939 version - dont like outdated formats - might want to upgrade something like 3 Years or so and still want to be able to find compatible h/w), some Asus nforce 4 based mobo, 1 GB valueram, 100 GB SATA hd, ...
Guess thats OK. Seems overpowered but he likes stuff to work fast (press the icon - progarm should run straight away with no delay)
Also note that i live in switzerland. i cant get all makes (e.g. no abit)
I am however im not really sure about the gfx card. He doesnt really use his pc for anything but Word, Outlook, firefox and maybe some internet radio.
He does want this pc to be vista ready (just run it with all bells and whistles, not any gaming required at all (he usually makes me delete the standard windows games 😀 ), ie. no need for dx 10). im just going to install it on his pc when i get my copy in 2007 or 08 or whenever it will finally come out.
i was thinking along the lines of a geforce 7300 but i realise this might not be a good choice (i guess it would be way overpowered for his needs - but if you go back a generation or two will it still support vista?). How about an ATI solution?
The rest of the h/w is pretty staightforward. Something like an Athlon64 3200+ (939 version - dont like outdated formats - might want to upgrade something like 3 Years or so and still want to be able to find compatible h/w), some Asus nforce 4 based mobo, 1 GB valueram, 100 GB SATA hd, ...
Guess thats OK. Seems overpowered but he likes stuff to work fast (press the icon - progarm should run straight away with no delay)
Also note that i live in switzerland. i cant get all makes (e.g. no abit)
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