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So, I finally got around to ordering the bits to upgrade my machine at home. NewEgg should be happy at me:
Case
Power Supply
Motherboard
Memory
Processor
Hard Drive
Graphics Adapter
The rest of what's needed will come out of my existing machine. I need to get a PATA to SATA adapter (serillel I believe is the canonical term) as I have three PATA devices (LS-120, Pioneer A07 DVD+/-RW, 80GB Maxtor ATA133 HDD) but the motherboard will only take two of them natively. My 80GB SATA HDD and the Plextor PX-716SA DVD+/-RW DL will happily plug in to ye ole motherboard directly. Coincidentally, a machine I built this morning just happens to have the exact same model of hard drive I just ordered in it, and holy shit it's fast.
I didn't bother getting a new sound card, but I'll update the Audigy Platinum I'm currently using to an X-Fi eventually. My 19" OptiQuest is still bright and clear, despite being 9 years old, so no new monitor, and my mouse and keyboard are less than a year old, so they'll be just fine too.
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silmaril, once I move some parts from my current machine in to the other desktop in the house, I'll have an extra gig of DDR-400 (PC 3200) RAM (2x512MB) and nothing to plug it in to...I believe you have a pair of spare memory slots those can go in?
Case
Power Supply
Motherboard
Memory
Processor
Hard Drive
Graphics Adapter
The rest of what's needed will come out of my existing machine. I need to get a PATA to SATA adapter (serillel I believe is the canonical term) as I have three PATA devices (LS-120, Pioneer A07 DVD+/-RW, 80GB Maxtor ATA133 HDD) but the motherboard will only take two of them natively. My 80GB SATA HDD and the Plextor PX-716SA DVD+/-RW DL will happily plug in to ye ole motherboard directly. Coincidentally, a machine I built this morning just happens to have the exact same model of hard drive I just ordered in it, and holy shit it's fast.
I didn't bother getting a new sound card, but I'll update the Audigy Platinum I'm currently using to an X-Fi eventually. My 19" OptiQuest is still bright and clear, despite being 9 years old, so no new monitor, and my mouse and keyboard are less than a year old, so they'll be just fine too.
silmaril, once I move some parts from my current machine in to the other desktop in the house, I'll have an extra gig of DDR-400 (PC 3200) RAM (2x512MB) and nothing to plug it in to...I believe you have a pair of spare memory slots those can go in?