Thread: Upgrade or by again?

Alison J. wrote: Is it worth upgrading a 5 y.o. PC? Someone said buy a new one but it's a waste of an old PC. Good parts but out of date. I have to by parts in Oz but how do I fit them. Buy a new PC and keep the old as a spare or sell/donate it. Almost nothing from a 5 year old machine would be useful or even useable in a modern machine. -- Alex "I laugh in the face of danger, then I hide until it goes away"

In message emailer.net, Alison J. writes Is it worth upgrading a 5 y.o. PC? Someone said buy a new one but it's a waste of an old PC. Good parts but out of date. I have to by parts in Oz but how do I fit them. How to decide? AJ By the time you've replaced the motherboard, the CPU, the memory, the HDD, possibly the graphics card and probably the power supply there's not a lot left of the old PC... -- Surfer!

Alison J. wrote: Is it worth upgrading a 5 y.o. PC? Someone said buy a new one but it's a waste of an old PC. Good parts but out of date. I have to by parts in Oz but how do I fit them. How to decide? AJ This is my personal, arbitrary rule of upgrading - "Will this upgrade, double the speed of my machine ?" If I'm gonna waste money on a machine, I want double. If you give some details about your computer, like the...

"Chris Whelan" wrote in message ... A five-year old machine might have an Athlon XP 3000, or a P4 2.4GHz, perhaps with only 256MB of RAM. If the intended use is the usual web browsing/email/light office, such a machine, running XP, would be perfectly usable with 1GB of RAM. Yeah those netbooks with 1.6ghz Atom CPUs are actually slower then a P4 2.4ghz but that has not stopped them being useable as Internet-books this past...

In article emailer.net, Alison J. says... Is it worth upgrading a 5 y.o. PC? No. Someone said buy a new one but it's a waste of an old PC. Good parts but out of date. I have to by parts in Oz but how do I fit them. How to decide? Its obsolete. Everything in it has been superceded. Memory is now a different type, hard drives use a different interface, graphics cards use a different slot. Sure you could upgrade but 1GB of DDR memory that...

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:12:29 +0000, Conor wrote: [...] Its obsolete. Everything in it has been superceded. Memory is now a different type, hard drives use a different interface, graphics cards use a different slot. Sure you could upgrade but 1GB of DDR memory that your computer will be using costs two or more times what 1GB of DDR2 memory costs due to it now being obsolete and low volume sales. 1GB DDR = 31.04UKP 1GB DDR2 = 19.54UKP (Crucial)...

"Alison J." wrote in message . theremailer.net... Is it worth upgrading a 5 y.o. PC? Someone said buy a new one but it's a waste of an old PC. Good parts but out of date. I have to by parts in Oz but how do I fit them. How to decide? AJ Do you have a specific need for something that the existing pc doesn't have/can't do? Does existing pc have a problem? If neither of the above why ug? If performance is a...

In message , Surfer! writes In message remailer.net, Alison J. writes Is it worth upgrading a 5 y.o. PC? Someone said buy a new one but it's a waste of an old PC. Good parts but out of date. I have to by parts in Oz but how do I fit them. How to decide? AJ By the time you've replaced the motherboard, the CPU, the memory, the HDD, possibly the graphics card and probably the power supply there's not a lot left of the old PC... I...

Is it worth upgrading a 5 y.o. PC? Someone said buy a new one but it's a waste of an old PC. Good parts but out of date. I have to by parts in Oz but how do I fit them. How to decide? AJ -- Healthy mind and body! http://www.usenature.com/crystal_healing.html http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/faq.html