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Time to upgrade?
I'm a long-time lurker and very occasional poster here and I've noticed how you guys love to help each other spend money! I'm wondering whether it's time to upgrade or whether to wait a bit longer...
I build my own and we have 4 PCs in the house on a network. The main one is used mostly for browsing, homework for the kids, some heavy document production for work and never for serious gaming. The most demanding use is Photoshop CS2 and occasional video editing. It's an Athlon 64 3200 with 2 gig of pc3200, an ATI 256Mb graphics card and plenty of hard disk space. Although fairly quiet (large slow fans, Zalman coolers and an Antec Sonata case), I'd prefer quieter as it lives in the main living room.
The big question is, can I get quieter (and much faster in CS2) with some future-proofing (I always seem to buy CPUs just before the pins change)? I'll need everything except optical drives, monitor, keyboard etc in a decent case with a budget of hundreds rather than thousands of pounds. What would you do - buy or wait a bit? If you'd buy, what kit?? Thanks - Rick
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