yorkshirewench
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This is my first post on this message board so I hope I'm starting this thread in the right place.
I'm thinking about buying a new PC and my main concern is that I can't afford one with a Pentium processor but that's all I'm familiar with. I've seen one I can afford but it has an AMD Athlon processor and for some reason I've always avoided them.
At the moment I have:
Pentium 4 1700MHz
Windows ME
128MB RAM
40GB drive
Radeon 9800 Pro
The one I'm looking at has:
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
Windows XP
1024MB DDR RAM (2x 512MB)
400GB (2x200) 7200 RPM Serial ATA Drive
128Mb GeForce FX5200
I'm not a novice when it comes to computers but I'm not an expert either so although I understand pretty much all of the above, some of it does confuse me. What I'd like to know is, would it be worth my buying the new PC for what I want to use it for? I play games occasionally (Hitman, Tomb Raider etc.) but mainly I use my PC for capturing video clips and editing them.
I realise the graphics card is not as good but the one I have now I installed myself without any problems so if I found the new one unsatisfactory I could easily replace it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I'm thinking about buying a new PC and my main concern is that I can't afford one with a Pentium processor but that's all I'm familiar with. I've seen one I can afford but it has an AMD Athlon processor and for some reason I've always avoided them.
At the moment I have:
Pentium 4 1700MHz
Windows ME
128MB RAM
40GB drive
Radeon 9800 Pro
The one I'm looking at has:
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
Windows XP
1024MB DDR RAM (2x 512MB)
400GB (2x200) 7200 RPM Serial ATA Drive
128Mb GeForce FX5200
I'm not a novice when it comes to computers but I'm not an expert either so although I understand pretty much all of the above, some of it does confuse me. What I'd like to know is, would it be worth my buying the new PC for what I want to use it for? I play games occasionally (Hitman, Tomb Raider etc.) but mainly I use my PC for capturing video clips and editing them.
I realise the graphics card is not as good but the one I have now I installed myself without any problems so if I found the new one unsatisfactory I could easily replace it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!