Whats your perfect pc configuration to suit you day to day activity? and how many times have you upgraded to a new pc? ~~ My ideal pc configuration should be: - 80-100GB HDD - 1GB Ram - Processor abv 2 Ghz sound card, video card etc as default, I am not into gaming and loud music. I got myself a PIV say around 7-8months back, before that I had a PIII from 4-5 yrs - still have it. changed coz PIII got damaged! only 2 upgrades till now!
If I would get a new pc I'd get one of those multi-core cpu's with at least 2GB of RAM, 4 HDD's in a redundand RAID config. The case would be a zalman fanless case. (no noise !) The gfx card would need to be able to support 3 monitors. My computer history : - Apple2 clone - commodore 64 - 286 16mhz and 4 Megs of RAM - 386 40mhz and a 19.200 baud modem. Was I happy at the time - 486 66mhz - Pentium 133mhz with a voodoo gfx card. Man did i think quake ran fast back then - Pentium 2 - Amd Athlon - and finally my current one : Pentium 4 (2800Mhz)
P IV 3.1 GHZ+ Dual Core, 2 MB L2, 64 BIT with 975 Intel original Mother Board 250 GB RAID/SCSI Hard Drive (10k or 15k RPM) 2 GB RAM DDR3 667Mhz FSB+ 20 inches wide TFT Geforce Nvidia AGP Card 512MB+512MB vRAM. Creative Live 5.1 (Platinum) sound card. Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 speakers.
you are right humm if you are not in gaming stuff or video editing stuff then the config you mentioned are really up to mark but as far as i think if one go to market to arrange things to assemble machine i dont think one will take processor of 2 ghz coz there is a littile difference in prices of 2 ghz processor and 3 ghz all this applies to hdd, dvd combos etc.(as per indian market) so at last if you do cost benefit analysis a latest machine proves to be more economical. keeping in mind that it will serve you more then an lesser updated machine well thats what i think gaurav