Most of the people I serve (I'm a tech by trade) wouldn't even consider buying Windows 8, for the UI reason alone?they have work to do, and relearning everything is not an option they will willingly choose. Do you still want to continue installing Windows 8?' Your system may be more susceptible to attack from malicious software. Whatever would have been wrong with a warning: 'Your processor does not support all of Windows 8's security features. The UI is controversial and getting a traditional desktop gets more difficult with each release, and now we find that, though it is lighter than Vista and 7, it will refuse to run on certain older hardware, for no better reason than that someone at Microsoft thought that making people 'safe' was more important than allowing people to use their software. This is still another nail in the Windows 8 coffin, as I see it. However, the motherboards I have in my shortlist are all ATX, but with my case also being ATX, I don't have to change it.) (My current motherboard is mATX- yet it's mounted in an *ATX* mid-tower case I went mATX for reasons of price/budget. PC cases haven't changed on a basic level while there are new form-factors (such as BTX and ITX), those remain primarily niches - the basic ATX and mATX haven't gone anywhere. (And if pricing is that good at one of the WORST places on a price basis, how much better is pricing at the better places, such as Newegg and MicroCenter?)Ĥ.

inexpensive* - I can buy a matched (4GBx2) Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 pair for $70 at (of all places) Best Buy - typically one of the WORST place to buy memory on a price basis.

Unlike DDR, DDR3 is *inexpensive, inexpensive. While newer motherboards *support* 24+8 PSU connections and 20+4/4+4 variants included) very few require them - if your PSU supports 20+4/4-pin and meets the power requirements, it should still work (taken directly from the manual of the ASUS P8Z77-V).ģ. Power Supplies - if you have a decent power supply (400W or greater), that's reusable as well, more likely than not. (That's not even remotely silly - there are motherboards that support both SATA *and* AGP one of them - the ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe - dates back to 2004 and is less than twenty feet from my right elbow.)Ģ. Unless your drives are IDE/ATAPI (say the drives are SATA, for example), you can reuse those as they are. So your looking at $550.Īnd merely by judicious hardware reuse, you can come under that - even from an AGP-based PC.ġ. Just need to get a new graphic card and you are set. You can get an Intel i7 2700k, motherboard and memory for about $400.

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