thought i'd give the old PC an update over the weekend.
bought a water cooling kit, new graphics card with 1gb ram on it and a
500gig HDD. my system is only a P4 3Ghz and i don't have much cash so i decided to make best of what i have. i water cooled because my comp has always run hot, actually every comp i've had has run hot except my AMD K6/2 (going back a bit there) my CPU temp has gone from 60c to a cool 35-40c when the CPU was worked hard it would hit 70c and become VERY slow but now it stays just under 50c when totally maxed out which isn't to bad! the temp in the whole system has dropped. makes me wonder if the original fan did anything? did check it and it was on there properly and everything. still so far so good and the system has made a MASSIVE improvement in general running. feels like a new comp!i've not done the graphics card yet or the new HDD but them 2 things alone could give me a nice even newer feeling comp!
plan to get a quad core CPU and motherboard for xmas.
water kit was new at £78 the graphics card was new-ish cheap from a mate due to a shipping f*ck up (they sent him 2 ages ago!) so gave him 20quid for that worth bout 60 odd quid i think and bout 10 times better than the age old one in there now! and the HDD was from a local shop on offer for £35 also new :)