Greetings from 2008. As I discovered from an ancient post, my neglected pc has the following spec (well that's what I bought after
this post):
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R
Intel Core 2 Duo, E8400
500 GB Western Digital WD5000AACS
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800)
Also, as mentioned elsewhere in that thread, I'm rocking a Geforce 7600GT (which I think I upgraded at some point, but whatever I upgraded to broke, so I threw the 7600 back in there).
Now, I'm well aware that I'm posting in the gaming hardware thread, but all I'm planning on doing is bringing it kicking and screaming into the 2010s. Perhaps replace the mish-mash of hard drives with an ssd and a bigger hd for storage. My understanding is that I can drop a newer graphics card onto that motherboard and it will still work.
So, er, recommend me stuff, I guess?
I've seen GT 1030s hovering around the 70 quid mark, is that good?
Sorry, I'm not even sure what I'm asking here, but I wanted to give you all the opportunity of recommending me stuff with far more fans and leds than I could possibly want.