its_only_a_game
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Hi all,
My old PC looks like its giving up the ghost, its 11 years old and windows XP. 3g ram, 600g hard drive with a 128mb graphics card.
I dont really play many games, the ones i do are old like football manager AOE 3 etc.
What I do use my pc for is photos and video editing. The pc understandably struggles with HD video and i have to downgrade it to DVD which it manages. I use Photoshop elements 7 and in the future will get a newer version. I also user cyber link power director for movie editing.
So below is the pc spec i was looking at, if anyone can advise especially on the graphics card. Ive gone with 8g ram, would probably upgrade to 16 in the future. What are people thoughts on using the pata to sata converter cables? i ask as i have two hard drives with all my photos on and could use them as back up, but worried about any extra power usage etc.
The case isnt the one i wanted, but the one i wanted which was £49 i couldnt have the card reader which is handing because of photos from the camera.
STYLISH PIANO BLACK ENIGMA CASE + 2 FRONT USB
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4440 (3.1GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® H81M-PLUS: Micro-ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ R7 260X - DVI, HDMI, DP- DX® 11, , Eyefinity 3 Capable
1st Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling
INTEL STANDARD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence
thanks to all
My old PC looks like its giving up the ghost, its 11 years old and windows XP. 3g ram, 600g hard drive with a 128mb graphics card.
I dont really play many games, the ones i do are old like football manager AOE 3 etc.
What I do use my pc for is photos and video editing. The pc understandably struggles with HD video and i have to downgrade it to DVD which it manages. I use Photoshop elements 7 and in the future will get a newer version. I also user cyber link power director for movie editing.
So below is the pc spec i was looking at, if anyone can advise especially on the graphics card. Ive gone with 8g ram, would probably upgrade to 16 in the future. What are people thoughts on using the pata to sata converter cables? i ask as i have two hard drives with all my photos on and could use them as back up, but worried about any extra power usage etc.
The case isnt the one i wanted, but the one i wanted which was £49 i couldnt have the card reader which is handing because of photos from the camera.
STYLISH PIANO BLACK ENIGMA CASE + 2 FRONT USB
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4440 (3.1GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® H81M-PLUS: Micro-ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ R7 260X - DVI, HDMI, DP- DX® 11, , Eyefinity 3 Capable
1st Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling
INTEL STANDARD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence
thanks to all