Hi -6 years ago I used to do a bit of War of Tanks and put together a modest quiet gaming desktop . 1 year later my second daughter arrived and its taken until today for me to start to think about that PC again as I may have some time for some gaming.
At present-
Silencio 500 case with 550W Psu and a few additional quiet fans
Athlon 64X2 6000+
Power Color silent Radeon 6850 1GB
2GB Ram
MS7327 motherboard.
And it's running XP....., 2GB ram
So minimum I need to get windows updated ( I Tunes doesn't even work on XP now) , probably to 10 looking at the options. This would then allow me to get more ram as I also had the 3GB max in XP.
If I wanted to get a sizeable upgrade in Performance beyond that would I need a new motherboard bundle and graphics card or will doubling the RAM on its own be noticeable at all?
I think I bought the best processor I could at the time for the motherboard socket , I don't even recall where I got that board from originally anymore. It's likely a decade old.
What would you recommend for decent (but not top end) performance?
Budget say £300-500 for MB/GPU not including windows. Where does that get me ?
I understand that most gamers here will be running super fast £ desktops but I don't really need that.
Thanks for any help
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If you want to overclock then it may be different and you will need beefier cooling.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
It never goes online and is bloody marvellous.
Its £30 predecessor died spectacularly last year, the replacement just needed a hard drive swap and everything came back just as before.
All my other home machines run Linux, the work ones range from win2000 up to 10, and they are all a pain in the arse.
The next gen Kaby Lake desktop processors are due in January. They will probably be a bit better still - although at this stage it will be incremental rather than a massive jump.
Would something like below be pretty solid?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201582347468
98, XP and 7 are still brilliant imo. They were killed off for business reasons only.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
You are clearly an insane man.
Of course, there are other aspects of the OS that are less welcome such as the OS data collected by MS which no-one is really sure of the content.