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ziz54

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Ok guys its has been two or three years since i did some hardware stuff on my pc. and i want to play HD stuff and Blu ray on my pc and better up to date specs and performance of now a days... so i thought id find some help to know what should i have ... here is my current Specs...

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Motherboard: Intel D945PRN
- ATX Form Factor
- Bus Clock: 200 MHz
- Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
- Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller (4x)

Processor: Dual 3.4 Ghz Pentium D
- 65-nm Architecture
- 16 KB primary memory cache
- 2 MB secondary memory cache
- 800 MHz Front side bus

RAM: 2.5 GB

Hard Drive: 80 GB

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 512 MB :frusty:

Monitor : ViewSonic VA703m 17" TFT Active Matrix SXGA LCD
- 700:1 (typ) Contrats Ratio
- 8ms Response Time

Anti Virus: Kaspersky 7.0

My budget is between 1000 and 1250 $, and im a frequent pc user looking for multi-taksing ... not much video editing ... light to medium photoshop... lots of movies and tv shows.

So, what do you think shall i do, a brand new rig or just a little modifications ?? If its a bit modifying , would u guys please sort their priorities in order .. so if i find it hard to manage the budget .. ;)

Edit: I am not looking for that ULTIMATE rig nor a pc that has a sign of "sorry for being broke" at its case :p.

... you can understand it looking at this :

I want in the range of here

Garbage -----------------------------> Ultimately Awesome

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cheap intel quadcore with mobo of your choice and 4gb ddr2 along with radeon hd4850 and a blu-ray drive should suffice for a decent build, just re-use some of your old parts/case if possible, and upgrade the psu if necessary and you should be okay. then get a new 24" monitor so you can watch blu-ray discs on. i'm pretty sure you can keep within your budget range, but that mainly depends on the price of the monitor i think. you might want to start looking at newegg.com since there will be specials on all kinds of parts this labor day weekend.
 
ok emphasizing on video cards ...

since ill be biulding a new system ..

shall i wait till the end of the year

or get a 8800 gtx or a 9800gx2 and end this ? ...

or is there any good card that will suffice me for two to three years gaming and/or movies wise ??

thanx for your time :) !
 
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