Computer Upgrade
I’ve been meaning to upgrade my computer for a while now. Although I’m very happy with what I have now–a nice AMD 64-FX processor, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 hard drives adding up to 570 gigs–my hard drives are filling up with music and movies and I don’t want to get rid of anything. The solution seems simple: buy another hard drive.
My problem: my motherboard only supports 2 SATA slots, so only two hard drives for me. Buying a new motherboard is really cheap these days, but the problem with that option is that my processor’s socket type (939) has been deprecated. Add to that that my RAM is DDR2 and most new motherboards now only take DDR3, and my only real option is to build a new computer altogether. I figured I could recycle some parts of my old computer and turn it into a dedicated media PC.
… and then I started doing the math.
$714. Gulp. Looks like I’ll hold off for a while!
