hey just thinkin about upgrading my computer....i need some help picking out a motherboard and cpu. i dont know too much about computers tho. i normally just buy a combo deal from a fry's (electronic store) ad and go from there. im not a gamer or anything but i just want something faster. right now i have a 2.2ghz amd 64 soemthing with 1gb or ram...i have a radeon 9250 video card wich is fine with me, and a 120 gb hard drive....so now i need some help...lemme know....well on the motherboard and cpu i dont want to spend over $250.00....less the better....i want best bang for my dollar...thanks!!!

sang

frys is ok, just don't buy any combo with any ghay ecs boards, an associate there told me they buy em for around 5$, and from my experience they are usually dead on arrival.
I recommend newegg though


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819103631
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813131014

that motherboard seems to have some good reviews, and the integrated graphics will beat those off that 9250
( not to mention the fact that its prolly an agp card, and they don't make many boards with that anymore).

The same ram should work, but i recommend more than 1 gig.

-dave

main question is what do you do with the computer?
no gaming ok.
do you do video editing or photo editing?
because a AMD 64 2.2gz with 1 GB of Ram is pretty fast for some one who is just using the internet and doing work/school related stuff.

i do a lil bit photo and videos....mainly from my camcorder to computer....it just take so damn long to render the video then burn it...like 2-3 hours....must be soemthing wrong woth my comp i guess...i use pinnacle or studio 9 wutever that came with my firewire card....


i have been hearing stuff about dual core??...wuts that??

This post has been edited by LBCxGUY: Dec 21, 2006 - 12:23 AM

why not just buy another gig of ram and invest in a raptor, those hard drives are fast!
cpu:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...=AFC-C8Junction

This post has been edited by LewFX: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:10 AM

geeez u think that's slow? lol i'm still on the 3.0ghz P4, 478 socket just get a better video card and more Ram would fix the problem i reckon, no point in investing in a new motherboard and cpu

^^^ only problem is when u buy that oem processor u gotta buy a heatsink to, i guess its a good chance to lower temps with a good heatsink though.

If your doing alot of video editing u may want to get a intel processor, and i dont know much about intel.
One of those raptor 10,000rpm drives should help with that video editing (like LewFX said)

core 2 duo all the way...its just the best and its not that expensive