PC Tower Spec

[jjandellis]

Not bought a new PC for a while, but due certain accounts being compromised I've now lost faith in the one I own. Also the laptop surfs considerably quicker than the tower, so clearly needs upgrade.

I have 2 monitors and would ideally like to upgrade this to 3.

I don't use the PC for anything fancy, just poker, downloading movies/music and a little surfing. Could someone please recommend a spec that I can punch into amazon please?

[paulhouk03]

Not bought a new PC for a while, but due certain accounts being compromised I've now lost faith in the one I own. Also the laptop surfs considerably quicker than the tower, so clearly needs upgrade.

I have 2 monitors and would ideally like to upgrade this to 3.

I don't use the PC for anything fancy, just poker, downloading movies/music and a little surfing. Could someone please recommend a spec that I can punch into amazon please?

y do u  need 3 monitors ? if ur only poker dl and surfing?

[AndrewT]

If all you're doing is a little poker, films and surfing, what's wrong with the laptop, with an extra monitor if needs be?

[EvilPie]

Not bought a new PC for a while, but due certain accounts being compromised I've now lost faith in the one I own. Also the laptop surfs considerably quicker than the tower, so clearly needs upgrade.

I have 2 monitors and would ideally like to upgrade this to 3.

I don't use the PC for anything fancy, just poker, downloading movies/music and a little surfing. Could someone please recommend a spec that I can punch into amazon please?

y do u  need 3 monitors ? if ur only poker dl and surfing?

1 - Poker
2 - Movies / music
3 - Surfing

Can't you count Ho?

How much you wanting to spend? There's been loads of cool looking set ups on here in the past for under a bag.

What's the spec on your existing one? Considered upgrading the bits on that which need doing? New hard drive, processor and a chunk of memory could be pretty cheap.

[jjandellis]

Not bought a new PC for a while, but due certain accounts being compromised I've now lost faith in the one I own. Also the laptop surfs considerably quicker than the tower, so clearly needs upgrade.

I have 2 monitors and would ideally like to upgrade this to 3.

I don't use the PC for anything fancy, just poker, downloading movies/music and a little surfing. Could someone please recommend a spec that I can punch into amazon please?

y do u  need 3 monitors ? if ur only poker dl and surfing?

1 - Poker
2 - Movies / music
3 - Surfing

Can't you count Ho?

How much you wanting to spend? There's been loads of cool looking set ups on here in the past for under a bag.

What's the spec on your existing one? Considered upgrading the bits on that which need doing? New hard drive, processor and a chunk of memory could be pretty cheap.

I'm a cheap charlie and wanna be spending as little as possible...£300 - 400??? Don't need any peripherals...the old pc was upgraded to the max and still not good...is about 6 years old and the fact I upgraded the ram to 1024 speaks volumes...think its got a 3ghz processor but probs not a great one at that

[EvilPie]

You can get a decent motherboard for £70, quad core AMD 3.4GHz processor for £110 and 8GB of RAM for about £80. All cheaper if you shop around obviously.

Stick that little lot in the case you've got and you'll be good to go.

That's about what I've got and the CPU usage sits at about 8% (highest about 60% when burning 2 DVDs at once) and the memory at about 35% (highest 80%)

If your existing hard drive's big enough just stick with it. You won't notice the benefit of a better one with what you're doing. I know I wouldn't and my usage is similar to yours by the looks of it.

I don't know if you'd have to re-install everything if you did it this way. There'll be a geek that can help with that.

As far as I'm aware everything is on your hard drive so if you just plug it in to a new motherboard / processor it should just be the same as before but quicker. Is that correct or would you have to re-install everything?

[jjandellis]

You can get a decent motherboard for £70, quad core AMD 3.4GHz processor for £110 and 8GB of RAM for about £80. All cheaper if you shop around obviously.

Stick that little lot in the case you've got and you'll be good to go.

That's about what I've got and the CPU usage sits at about 8% (highest about 60% when burning 2 DVDs at once) and the memory at about 35% (highest 80%)

If your existing hard drive's big enough just stick with it. You won't notice the benefit of a better one with what you're doing. I know I wouldn't and my usage is similar to yours by the looks of it.

I don't know if you'd have to re-install everything if you did it this way. There'll be a geek that can help with that.

As far as I'm aware everything is on your hard drive so if you just plug it in to a new motherboard / processor it should just be the same as before but quicker. Is that correct or would you have to re-install everything?

Sounds great - but I'm kinda wondering if mine has computer AIDS...worth getting a new hard drive???

[EvilPie]

You can get a decent motherboard for £70, quad core AMD 3.4GHz processor for £110 and 8GB of RAM for about £80. All cheaper if you shop around obviously.

Stick that little lot in the case you've got and you'll be good to go.

That's about what I've got and the CPU usage sits at about 8% (highest about 60% when burning 2 DVDs at once) and the memory at about 35% (highest 80%)

If your existing hard drive's big enough just stick with it. You won't notice the benefit of a better one with what you're doing. I know I wouldn't and my usage is similar to yours by the looks of it.

I don't know if you'd have to re-install everything if you did it this way. There'll be a geek that can help with that.

As far as I'm aware everything is on your hard drive so if you just plug it in to a new motherboard / processor it should just be the same as before but quicker. Is that correct or would you have to re-install everything?

Sounds great - but I'm kinda wondering if mine has computer AIDS...worth getting a new hard drive???

Guess so if there's nothing too important on your old one.

It'd only be another £60 - £70 for a half decent 2TB hard drive. You don't need anything fancy for what you're doing.

[jjandellis]

You can get a decent motherboard for £70, quad core AMD 3.4GHz processor for £110 and 8GB of RAM for about £80. All cheaper if you shop around obviously.

Stick that little lot in the case you've got and you'll be good to go.

That's about what I've got and the CPU usage sits at about 8% (highest about 60% when burning 2 DVDs at once) and the memory at about 35% (highest 80%)

If your existing hard drive's big enough just stick with it. You won't notice the benefit of a better one with what you're doing. I know I wouldn't and my usage is similar to yours by the looks of it.

I don't know if you'd have to re-install everything if you did it this way. There'll be a geek that can help with that.

As far as I'm aware everything is on your hard drive so if you just plug it in to a new motherboard / processor it should just be the same as before but quicker. Is that correct or would you have to re-install everything?

Sounds great - but I'm kinda wondering if mine has computer AIDS...worth getting a new hard drive???

Guess so if there's nothing too important on your old one.

It'd only be another £60 - £70 for a half decent 2TB hard drive. You don't need anything fancy for what you're doing.

Cheers Matt appreciated!

[Dino]

Don't forget you will need to add a graphics card capable of supporting 3 monitors to that.

[bobAlike]

Don't forget you will need to add a graphics card capable of supporting 3 monitors to that.

As it happens I have a Matrox Quad PCIE card (upto 4 screens) which has only been used once for 10 minutes. These cost in the region of £400 new. I'd let it go for any reasonable offer.