The Gizmophile

It looks like time has come to retire my wife’s old computer and build her a new one.  Her eMachine has been humming along for nearly five years now but it is starting to show its age.  In fact, the upgrade is probably at least six months overdue.  Poor thing can’t keep up with all those damned MS patches anymore!  Oh and it got blasted by the same lightning strike that fried the hard drive on my old DVR.  Her damage was limited to the built-in NIC.  I guess I’m off to a little Newegg shopping.

So…what to get?  I think the goal is to keep cost down and recycle some old parts like the CD/DVD ROM, HDD (IDE but works like a champ), and maybe adopt a slightly newer 8400GS gpu.  That leaves three major parts: cpu, motherboard, RAM.  I should also note that this build should last just as long if not longer than the old one and keep up with newer and heavier apps until then.

CPU

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