On 24/12/12 22:19, robgraham wrote:
On Dec 18, 8:46 pm, robgraham wrote:
I've Dell Dimension 5000 which must be in the order of 7 or 8 years
old. There's no problems with it apart from it being bit slow on
photo processing, which is the only processor intensive activity I do
apart form a bit of SketchUp and that seems OK.

Is it new wine into old bottles to consider a motherboard/processor
upgrade ? If it's worth doing how do I work out what board type is in
it at the moment and what would I be best to look for ? I'm quite
happy to go the Ebay path and look for someone else's upgrading cast-
off.

Thanks for any help

Rob

OK guys, lets go back to square one where this enquiry started. If I
go to WOC, say, looking for a box that has a M/B + memory and a PSU in
it, which is all I need in that I have perfectly good DVD drives and a
new H/D already, what ....

1 M/B do I go for ?
go for the cheapest one with processor in and the cheapest mini case/

2 Do I need a video card ?

Not if you are not gaming. full screen flash may struggle a bit too.
Otherwise get the cheapests NVidia (geoforce)

I did a trial run on WOC for such and ended up spending over £500,
which doesn't quite match up with the £250 that was being quoted as
typical.


You buy too high.

cheapest case.
Cheapst M'board with processor.
4GB ram
cheap geoforce card.

SATA disk
DVD R/W - cheapest.

Windows if you want it.





Rob



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