Buying a New Tower for my Computer.

 

 

 

I need to be around 1.5 grand needs to be able to handle high quality multimedia, and the top games so around 3.0+GHZ 200+gb hardrive and a decent card so far...

 

 

 

The sony one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also what could I do with my old Tower.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.4GHZ

 

 

 

512mb

 

 

 

100gb Hardrive

 

 

 

Windows xp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would like something cool to do with it because were not selling it.

Firstly I assume that you mean $1500 USD... More detail on the kind of multimedia you plan to do would be nice..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your specefic requirements might benefit from the use of Dual core CPU*, and the best dual cores are made by AMD. Something like this should work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is quite easy to build your own... Here is a very breif idea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ $500

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Epox 9PNA Ultra motherboard $105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

250GB Hard Drive - OEM $100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XFX Geforce 7800GT $309

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) $73

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Case : $70

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSU: ENERMAX Noisetaker 485W $76

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005 - OEM $115

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD / DVD Drives/writer: $50

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total: $1400 ($100 spare for postage ect)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(I might have forgotten several things, and ummm all parts might not be compatiable, but I do not see any obvious problems....)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for your old PC, chuck in a TV tuner card, and maybe a DVB decorder card and turn it into a media box to play/record TV.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* If you do not plan to do multi-tasking much, a single core CPU might be better. Only a few selected software benefit from dual core.