New PC?

[Metallifreak]

Hi there, I'm thinking about an new PC. Mine is damn old right now, but I don't wanna spend that much money, since usually I just need it to be online, read emails, burn dvd's an so on. No pc games at all. So what do you think about this one??

ACER - ASPIRE M3400 1210CZ AMD

Features:
Processor: AMD Phenom II X6
Processor Clock Rate: 2,8 GHz
HD Capacity: 1000 GB
Main Memory: 6 GB DDR-3-RAM
Graphic Card: ATi Radeon HD 5570 with max. 3819 MB
Optical Drive : LG BluRay Burner
USB Data Links : 4 x Frontside, 6 x Backside
Several Data Links: CardReader
Tower: MidiTower
Integrated Card Reader : 11 in 1
Sound: on Board
Slots: 1 x PCI, - x AGP, 1 x PCI-Express
Special Features:
DVI-Output
HDMI- Output
DirectX 11

Thanx for your comments

[deadone]

im not sure if this is a custom build but if not i have listed my thoughts anyway.

what processor model are you going for.
going by the stats you posted sound like the

1055T Model which is pretty good all round. im sure thats 1 of the top 5 cpu's with a good price range.
and it can be overclocked.

i have heard that the
Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2 GHz Black Edition is a bit of a monster but compared to price value your chosen model is better value for money considering you can overlock it if need be.

6 GB DDR-3-RAM is plenty

graphic card seems should be fine seeing as its not a gaming rig.
HD 5570 shares the same GPU as the Radeon HD 5670, and the 5670 card has a clock rate 125 MHz higher.
but your card can be overclocked using the MSI's Afterburner software.
Catalyst Control Center's Overdrive tool caps overclocking so using the one above will give you better results.
is you plan on using it read up about it 1st please lol.

hdd, on my next rig (soon i hope) im going to go for ssd as well as std hdd. (suggested by sjmike in a topic i made a while back)
but as you might gather they are a little pricey even for the small sized capacity.
have you thought about getting one of those and lowering the std hdd size ?.

i dont see anything about psu. or does it already have 1.
the Coolermaster Elite Power 500W psu should be way more than enough to run your setup.
the setup you have would prob only need about 300w or something like that at a guess.

sound card should be fine but the Creative Labs SB Audigy SE is a great sound card for the price.
is your sound card going to be High-definition. if so then that should be fine.

tower. now im a bit of a tower fan i have to say. my personal preference is a full tower case like the
Coolermaster HAF-X Full Tower Gaming Case
http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6653

or
Thermaltake Level 10GT Full Tower
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.a ... 16&ID=2039

my next rig will def have 1 of the above as thats a Decision i have made to myself lol.
reasons are i like the looks, they are also huge in size and will almost certainly be able to hold all your extra goodies.
large cpu's gpu's motherboards, psu's , watercooling etc etc.

if its a custom build your doing might be worth looking into some towers like the Thermaltake Armor A60 Gaming Mid-Tower Case.
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.a ... 25&ID=1968
i know your setup is not for gaming but keeping everything cool inside is a must and the cooling on all 3 towers i linked to are great.

[Pete-Rock]

I highly recommend buying a SSD for system and use the 1TB harddisc for storage only. Using an SSD will give you the highes increase of speed you have ever experienced on a computer. EVERBODY (really!!!) who has a SSD says that he cant ever imagine using a PC without one. I didnt believe the hype until I tried out for myself. SSDs are just awesome.

[Metallifreak]

Thanx for the hints guyz

[deadone]

I highly recommend buying a SSD for system and use the 1TB harddisc for storage only. Using an SSD will give you the highes increase of speed you have ever experienced on a computer. EVERBODY (really!!!) who has a SSD says that he cant ever imagine using a PC without one. I didnt believe the hype until I tried out for myself. SSDs are just awesome.

so you reckon they are that good. i have heard good things about them but to be honest i have as yet not tried 1 so no idea what they are like.

what would you suggest.. using he ssd as the system hard drive or using it for programs and games.

Mick

[Sepu]

I highly recommend buying a SSD for system and use the 1TB harddisc for storage only. Using an SSD will give you the highes increase of speed you have ever experienced on a computer. EVERBODY (really!!!) who has a SSD says that he cant ever imagine using a PC without one. I didnt believe the hype until I tried out for myself. SSDs are just awesome.

so you reckon they are that good. i have heard good things about them but to be honest i have as yet not tried 1 so no idea what they are like.

what would you suggest.. using he ssd as the system hard drive or using it for programs and games.

Mick

hey Mick,

Like Peter said, using the SSD for the system and a normal HDD for the data-games.
SSD really increase the performances on opening files, programs, startin/shutting down the OS

[deadone]

well i will def consider getting one when i get my new rig

Mick

[shownomarcy]

I also shall buy a new one... to edit hd videos
what is good enough for that?

[Pete-Rock]

Sorry Mick I couldnt reply earlier, I was on vacation for 2 weeks.

But Chris already replied to your question: take the SSD for your system and your main programs and a regular HDD for storage. If you do audio or video editing and use a lot of plugins or samples, make sure those plugins and/or samples are on the SSD, because you want them to be loaded quickly.

One last advice: You need trim to be active when you use a SSD and you should never EVER defrag an SSD, it gets damaged by that. If you use Windows 7 trim is active by system default. If you have XP or Vista running, you will need to do it manually, there are some tools which can do that.


@shownomarcy

I highly recommend using Intel SSDs. They are slightly more expensive than the others, but have a longer lifetime (much longer than regular HDDs by the way).
What about this one for example? I have it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Solid-Sta ... =8-3-fkmr0

It is 160GB only, so keep in mind to NOT use it for storage, just for system and programs. Cheers!

[deadone]

thank for the feedback.
what is trim and i didnt know that defragging can cause damages on ssd's,
glad some1 told me in advance

Mick