So I got around to building a new PC Friday night. I basically went AMD on this build to try it out and say fuck it. So far, so good; plus Windows 10 loading at record speeds. I am basing this on post update boots, not that hybrid hibernate thingy that Windows started with 8.
Ask me about my [strike]weiner[/strike] computer!
I built an i5 PC in December with a SSD main hard drive. Good lord I didn't know boot speeds like this existed. About 10 seconds to get into the OS? So nice. Did you get a nice graphics card to go with the PC?
I grabbed a newer Radeon R390x... MSI brand. Its been running fine and I haven't needed to OC it yet for what I do.
Solid states are very nice. With or without the hybrid hibernate, Windows loads in just a few seconds.
I've never built a PC. I like the one I bought a few years ago, but it has begun to show its age. I am curious to what I would need to upgrade the most (my guess would be RAM and at least the graphics and/or audio cards/whatever they are called) and what to expect for costs. I don't require anything fancy. I do game on this pc and use the net for videos etc. but I don't play games that most would require a high-end pc for gaming.
Really depends on your case and what your motherboard can handle. There's also your power unit. [MENTION=38634]Chris_Miller[/MENTION] swears by Antec, but most Certified Gold PSUs are nice. I use modular Corsair PSUs.
Looking at the case, its an emachines model EL1358G. As for the motherboard... :shrug: No idea how to check that. And as for the power unit... :shrug: Haven't a clue.
Belarc Advisor will scan all your hardware and software. It will output the data in an html page.
According to the advisor, my system stuff is a below in the spoilers.
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---OS---
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)
Installed: 2/21/2012 1:17:06 PM
Boot Mode: BIOS (Secure Boot not supported)
---Main Circuit Board---
Board: eMachines EL1358G
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. P01-B4 11/04/2011
---Processor---
2.80 gigahertz AMD Athlon II X2 220
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded
---Drives---
3979.72 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
2735.96 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH70N SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]
Disk drive (2000.40 GB) -- drive 1
Generic- Multi-Card USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
Seagate Expansion+ USB Device [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 2, s/n NA4WF93R
TOSHIBA MK1059GSMP SCSI Disk Device (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, s/n X1O6P25QT, SMART Status: Healthy
---Memory Modules---
2816 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 1024 MB (serial number 270C9173)
Slot 'DIMM1' has 2048 MB (serial number 045E3A91)
---Display---
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 [Display adapter]
Vizio VW22LHDTV10T [Monitor] (22.0"vis, s/n TMCQAJ4705226, November 2008)
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Your board can support up to 8GB of 1600 DDR3 memory.
Anything else would also depend on the power supply, as far as more drives or graphics. Graphics would need a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot at least but that would be a more expensive upgrade. Also usually a bigger power supply. RAM is cheap.
Sidenote, eMachines is owned by Acer.
Thanks, I'll take this into account for when I upgrade anything.