In late 2006 I built the following:
CPU: Athlon54 X2 4600+ Windsor @ 2.4 Ghz
Motherboard: Asus M2N SLI-Deluxe
RAM: Corsair XMS2 2x1GB PC2 6400 Dual Channel Kit
Power Supply: Seasonic S12-500W
Video Card: EVGA GeForce 7900GT 256MB, 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI-Express (Added a Zalman cooler to it)
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Xi-Fi
Hard Drive: 320 GB Seagate 7200 RPM
Case: Antec P180
The OS is XP pro and I also have a Lite-on 16X burner in it as well as a video capture card.
In October of 2009 I purchased an Athlon X2 6000 with the intention of putting it in my existing motherboard, which hasn't happened yet. I have since bought an Asus M4A77D so I wouldn't have to upgrade my RAM and intended to put the 6000 in that. Now I see the AMD Athlon II X4 635 sells for around $100 now and I'm rethinking my rebuild.
I don't game very much, I think my latest game was Portal. Since I have a kid now I do a lot of photo and video transfer/burning/editing. So with all that, I'd like to ask the following:
1. Which chip would be better in the M4A77D, the 6000 or the X4 635? I will be using the existing PC2 6400 and running Windows 7 Ultimate.
2. My brother has offered me his 8800GT, is it worth using or is there a newer card I could get inexpensively? If it supports Diablo 3 thats a plus.
3. Would using a 75GB Raptor 10,000 RPM drive give me any performance boost whatsoever?
Thanks in advance.
CPU: Athlon54 X2 4600+ Windsor @ 2.4 Ghz
Motherboard: Asus M2N SLI-Deluxe
RAM: Corsair XMS2 2x1GB PC2 6400 Dual Channel Kit
Power Supply: Seasonic S12-500W
Video Card: EVGA GeForce 7900GT 256MB, 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI-Express (Added a Zalman cooler to it)
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Xi-Fi
Hard Drive: 320 GB Seagate 7200 RPM
Case: Antec P180
The OS is XP pro and I also have a Lite-on 16X burner in it as well as a video capture card.
In October of 2009 I purchased an Athlon X2 6000 with the intention of putting it in my existing motherboard, which hasn't happened yet. I have since bought an Asus M4A77D so I wouldn't have to upgrade my RAM and intended to put the 6000 in that. Now I see the AMD Athlon II X4 635 sells for around $100 now and I'm rethinking my rebuild.
I don't game very much, I think my latest game was Portal. Since I have a kid now I do a lot of photo and video transfer/burning/editing. So with all that, I'd like to ask the following:
1. Which chip would be better in the M4A77D, the 6000 or the X4 635? I will be using the existing PC2 6400 and running Windows 7 Ultimate.
2. My brother has offered me his 8800GT, is it worth using or is there a newer card I could get inexpensively? If it supports Diablo 3 thats a plus.
3. Would using a 75GB Raptor 10,000 RPM drive give me any performance boost whatsoever?
Thanks in advance.