I'm a nublet when it comes to components, but I try to hold my own. Raise your hands everyone who have decided to upgrade their PC:s, only to notice that your obsolete system needs more part replacement than an '86 Fiat Uno?
Basically, my system has been gone through, well.. .."some" changes since the original 800Mhz Socket A Duron (Or was it 850?). The only thing that's original is the case and floppy-drive. Yes, I've had it since 2001. Whoop-de-doo. Now I know that many of you out here in the Tech section are currently laughing your asses off at my poopy system, but I have no intention of building an über-rig, nor have I ever planned to do so.
My rant goes out to component manufacturers and dealers.
So, a long time ago, i switched my mobo. Thinking I was really smart, I got the AsRock Dual SATA motherboard s939 with both AGP and PCI-e-slots. It also has a fancy-schmansy "Future CPU-port", basically for the AM2 which hadn't come out at the time of my purchase. So it was the most super amazing megabargain that I thought could be possible. Lucky me, don't you agree?
No.
2 years later, I'm facing the task of upgrading again. Yes, I want to keep the rig functional and no, I have no intention to ever make a supacomputa out of it. Just keep it working. Now, I know that two years in terms of components is like trying to fit the wooden wheels of an amish-carriage onto a Bugatti Veyron, but according to what the geeks told me at the store, it should be possible, right? I mean I did get a 1.8Ghz Duron for the old socket-A mobo 4 years after the socket-type came out. So I should easily get new party-parts for this one in terms of performance-boosting.
Let's see now.. I need a faster processor, so why not go for a 4200+ X2? Oh, I can't find any. Replaced by AM2, you say? The fastest one I managed to find was a 3200+, which I already have. Thanks a fucking million, AMD!
Oh wait, the "future CPU-port"! That'll do it!
So I look on the pages of the component dealer who sold me the original mobo to see how much the add-on card will cost, only to see that they don't have it. So they campaign to me that I'll get the most upgradable piece of hardware known to man, then they don't deliver the upgrades? Nice short-term planning, assholes. Maybe they should implement some Soviet tactics in their sales strategy.
So the only thing I can upgrade, is the Graphcard. Only that, why do it when the rest of the system is going to bottleneck anyway?
Thanks AMD! Thanks component dealers! Thanks AsRock!
Maybe I should just go to a store and get myself a generic HP piece of shit.
Basically, my system has been gone through, well.. .."some" changes since the original 800Mhz Socket A Duron (Or was it 850?). The only thing that's original is the case and floppy-drive. Yes, I've had it since 2001. Whoop-de-doo. Now I know that many of you out here in the Tech section are currently laughing your asses off at my poopy system, but I have no intention of building an über-rig, nor have I ever planned to do so.
My rant goes out to component manufacturers and dealers.
So, a long time ago, i switched my mobo. Thinking I was really smart, I got the AsRock Dual SATA motherboard s939 with both AGP and PCI-e-slots. It also has a fancy-schmansy "Future CPU-port", basically for the AM2 which hadn't come out at the time of my purchase. So it was the most super amazing megabargain that I thought could be possible. Lucky me, don't you agree?
No.
2 years later, I'm facing the task of upgrading again. Yes, I want to keep the rig functional and no, I have no intention to ever make a supacomputa out of it. Just keep it working. Now, I know that two years in terms of components is like trying to fit the wooden wheels of an amish-carriage onto a Bugatti Veyron, but according to what the geeks told me at the store, it should be possible, right? I mean I did get a 1.8Ghz Duron for the old socket-A mobo 4 years after the socket-type came out. So I should easily get new party-parts for this one in terms of performance-boosting.
Let's see now.. I need a faster processor, so why not go for a 4200+ X2? Oh, I can't find any. Replaced by AM2, you say? The fastest one I managed to find was a 3200+, which I already have. Thanks a fucking million, AMD!
Oh wait, the "future CPU-port"! That'll do it!
So I look on the pages of the component dealer who sold me the original mobo to see how much the add-on card will cost, only to see that they don't have it. So they campaign to me that I'll get the most upgradable piece of hardware known to man, then they don't deliver the upgrades? Nice short-term planning, assholes. Maybe they should implement some Soviet tactics in their sales strategy.
So the only thing I can upgrade, is the Graphcard. Only that, why do it when the rest of the system is going to bottleneck anyway?
Thanks AMD! Thanks component dealers! Thanks AsRock!
Maybe I should just go to a store and get myself a generic HP piece of shit.
I need around tree fiddy.
