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Ok so i need some major upgrades. This system has been lent to me by a friend as my other system has been damaged in floods and is dead.
430 w psu.
4 gb 1333 ram.
Core duo T 2600.
Gigabyte g41m combo.
Nvidia 8600 gt.
1 tb wd black.
Unknown case.

He has stated that i may pull it apart and do whatever i want with it till i get a new system and it is up and running, so i am looking at upgrading piece by piece. (ie buy 1 part 1 week and the next week buy another part ect ect.) The reason i am doing it this way is because i have just finished uni.( and i am poor i dont have the budget upfront). The overall budget is $1500 Australian, I am looking for advice on the build and how to start it. (ie should i buy a video card first install it and then in 2 weeks time get ram ect). I am also asking for help with the best hardware configurations this rig will be for both gaming and editing.
 
We never recommend doing a complete build, piece by piece like you are wanting to do. For a number of reasons.

1. By the time you get every part you need, if you would have just waited until then to buy everything you'll most likely have been able to get a better system for the same price. Since hardware not only gets better over time, the price generally stays around the same for the same tier. This means that spending $400 for a video card today, you'll most likely get a more powerful video card 6 months from now with that same $400.

2. Not everything will be compatible. Say you buy a video card now, sure the video card will most likely work in your current rig since it has a PCI-e slot, but once you buy RAM; it'll have to wait till you get a compatible motherboard, then you'll have to wait for a compatible CPU, so on and so forth. By the time you get everything needed to run that RAM you bought a month ago, it turns out it was a DOA unit and thus you're past your 30 day return/exchange policy and now you will have to wait for the manufacture to issue an RMA which could take weeks; so you're still without a useable upgraded system; yet you've already spent all the money, then a new CPU just came out and if you saved you money instead of piecing it together one week at a time, you could have just bought the CPU, motherboard and RAM right then; RAM faulty? Return to merchant for an instant exchange... week tops.

3. Kind of like above. The warranty starts when you buy it, not when you first use it. So you would have wasted a months worth of the manufacturer warranty on a product you couldn't even use.

So save your money, then come and bump this topic with those sticky questions Redleader posted answered when you're within' 1 week of buying EVERYTHING at once and we'll fix you right up.
 
Skillz said:
We never recommend doing a complete build, piece by piece like you are wanting to do. For a number of reasons.

1. By the time you get every part you need, if you would have just waited until then to buy everything you'll most likely have been able to get a better system for the same price. Since hardware not only gets better over time, the price generally stays around the same for the same tier. This means that spending $400 for a video card today, you'll most likely get a more powerful video card 6 months from now with that same $400.

2. Not everything will be compatible. Say you buy a video card now, sure the video card will most likely work in your current rig since it has a PCI-e slot, but once you buy RAM; it'll have to wait till you get a compatible motherboard, then you'll have to wait for a compatible CPU, so on and so forth. By the time you get everything needed to run that RAM you bought a month ago, it turns out it was a DOA unit and thus you're past your 30 day return/exchange policy and now you will have to wait for the manufacture to issue an RMA which could take weeks; so you're still without a useable upgraded system; yet you've already spent all the money, then a new CPU just came out and if you saved you money instead of piecing it together one week at a time, you could have just bought the CPU, motherboard and RAM right then; RAM faulty? Return to merchant for an instant exchange... week tops.

3. Kind of like above. The warranty starts when you buy it, not when you first use it. So you would have wasted a months worth of the manufacturer warranty on a product you couldn't even use.

So save your money, then come and bump this topic with those sticky questions Redleader posted answered when you're within' 1 week of buying EVERYTHING at once and we'll fix you right up.
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thank you for the advice i had never actually thought of it that way you have put very valid points across so i will repost when i get some cash together ... thanks guys
 
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