Restarting - Upgrade PC or New?

[Sturmy]

Probably not unless you're editing/encoding videos or 10+ boxing.

Yeah doubt I'll be doing 10box for a long time, Need to get back into 5 first!

ditch your "green drive" they are only green becuase they opperate at lower speeds to get the lower power usage without doing a thing to bost read/write speed, platter density, etc.

Only reason for that was it was a cheapish 2TB drive, just for random data etc :P But yeah could look at a non-green one if it's much better r/w

there was alot of going back and forth in another post between if hyperthreading used in i7's is an advantage over i5's. I think that 4 real cores vs 6 real cores doesn't really come into play at 5 boxing if video settings are limited on slave clients. when 9 boxing on a singular client, the older i7 930 system performed better with hyperthread, than it did with hyperthreading disabled from the bios. but you aren't 10 boxing, so it may be a wash.

personally, I preffer fewer systems on my desk than multiple systems. ISBoxer's experience will be nicer with all of your clients on the same computer just like it was nicer for me to have 5 on one system back in the day, so stay away from multiple computers or running old hardware becuase you cheap out and think you can save a few bucks.

if you personally can't tell the difference between video played over vga vs DVI, then I wouldn't worry about it as you are the person who will be staring at the screen. Though there are some really nice monitor deals out there using better technology if you current monitor only has vga
gl on your setup :P

Yeah certainly think 1 "good" computer seems the way to go. Having multiple may seem logical but if it removes features from ISB seems a waste really.

In terms of VGA/DVI only reason I'm on VGA is I've had this monitor for a while, and for some reason LGs screens seem to miss DVI a lot on the older models. But seemed a waste replacing 22" just for DVI :P But obviously if new card doesn't have VGA makes a difference. No "real" reason for using VGA, just been cheap

Think I'll have to try knocking up a full system tonight on ebuyer and see what price it comes to, then decide between i7/i5

Thanks all!