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questions about pc build
Greetings,
I am at present coming to you from my soon-to-be-retired Windows XP Dell tower. Therefore I haven't been able to upload my complete projected system specs. The following below is my project.
I have acquired two Dell Precision T3400 towers...sans hard drives, RAM and video cards. They were previously owned by a company that used them to make/and test games(2K GAMES). These towers were retired, via a moving company, and I acquired them from one of the moving company's employees.
One of the tower CPU's is a Intel Core2 extreme. The other tower CPU is a Intel Core2 quad. I haven't decided which to use. The power supplies are 525 Watt.
At present I have acquired one Western hardrive, 1TB(WD Blue), WD1DEZES to install.(the seller guarantees it, and has three more available at $35 ea., should I grow a pair and maybe attempt a RAID configuration).
I am planning to acquire 4 1G RAM chips($40).
I am still trying to decide what graphics card to install($20-40 budget).
I plan on a fresh install of Windows 7(free if I'm lucky).
Or should I be considering Windows 8 ?
I am purchasing all the components from Craigslist, or Ebay, since my budget is strictly limited for this project. Hopefully, I could get everything up and running by, of all dates, April 1st or thereabouts.
Any and all suggestions will be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks,