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Old June 28th 20, 01:30 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,atl.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Have hardware prices gone crazy during Covid?

On 6/28/2020 7:47 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 28/06/2020 12.17, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Well, I was looking at a couple of upgrades for a friend's computer. I
built the computer for them several years ago, so it's now time for a
few performance upgrades. The system currently consists of a
Haswell-generation Celeron, and using just Intel graphics. So the idea
is to upgrade that processor to higher end 4th or 5th gen (Haswell or
Broadwell) Core i5 or higher, preferably i7. And also to upgrade that
graphics to a lowest-end graphics card, because they got themselves an
ultrawide monitor.


The first thing I look at is the disk. If it is rotating rust, I upgrade
to SSD. That alone improves performance a lot.


The disk is fine, it's actually one of those hybrid SSHD's with a small
SSD caching a 1TB HDD. The important upgrade here is the graphics card,
they really need something that will accommodate their ultrawide
monitor's resolution natively.

Yousuf Khan
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