Posts by Richard Murphy17

fadedorca66 said:- check out what kind of power supply you're running; you'll have to pop the case open and hunt down the brand and model. Honestly, you might not even need to swap it out
- grabbing an SSD will be a total game changer for you too—GIMP pops open in like three seconds flat and the whole system will just fly. You can keep that old 300GB HDD for storage and just install the OS and your main apps on the SSD instead

So, my power supply is an EVGA Power Supply at 350W, and the case is just some budget Micro-Star thing, but yeah, basically nothing fancy with the power side of things. I’d definitely swap the PSU, and honestly, the drive too. This rig is pushing ten years old now, and hey, everything still technically works, it's just gotten super sluggish for what I'm trying to do lately! Since I'm looking at buying new stuff anyway, I'm probably just going to go all out and replace the whole setup. That SSD idea sounds awesome, though, so I'll most likely pair it up with the old HDD to save some cash. Since I'm not in a massive rush to buy everything right this second, and since AMD isn't exactly keeping their stock updated according to what 😁 mentioned if something happens to be out of stock, I'll probably scout out other shops (like Accenture, for example) to see if they carry the same or similar parts. I might still have to double-check compatibility if I can't find everything on those specific lists I was looking at.

Anyway, thanks a million for all the help everyone! 🙂

Hey everyone! I’m looking to finally give my ancient PC a massive overhaul and could really use some expert advice. My main goal is to get a solid machine for Photoshop—lots of graphic design work and digital illustrations—but otherwise, it’ll just be my daily driver for browsing, music, movies, and maybe the occasional light game here and there. I’m planning on replacing pretty much everything except the case and the peripherals, and I'm hoping to keep the budget somewhere around $2000-$833 if we can make that happen. Any local shops in the Washington, D.C. area are totally fine by me!

Here’s the beast I’m currently running:

CPU
Intel Core 2 duo E4600 @ 2.40GHz
Conroe 65nm Technology

RAM
4,00GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz

Motherboard
ASUS EP35-DS3R (Socket 775)

Graphics
1024MB AMD Radeon hd 6450 (Sapphire/PCPartner)

Storage
298GB Seagate ST3320613AS ATA Device (SATA)

I’m thinking about swapping out basically everything, though I’m a bit stumped on whether my current graphics card would even play nice with a modern setup, so please let me know what you think about that! As far as storage goes, I already have a 1TB external drive, so I don't need anything huge internally—maybe just something in the 400-500GB range. Thanks a bunch!

So, did anyone actually pull the trigger and order a tablet from Amazon? Honestly, the prices over there look way better than what we’ve got available locally—even with just those few models they carry—but I’m really tripping out about the warranty situation if you buy online. Does Wacom offer some kind of official global warranty regardless of where the tablet actually comes from, like, could I actually take it into a Best Buy if something goes sideways?