Hi All,

 

My pc is driving me crazy, the USB cabling is failing, things just don’t work.

 

The 8 year old desktop PC has a 24” monitor (good as a 2nd one), keyboard, mouse & USB connection, internet connection thing, legal win 7 professional, pretty simple graphics card, power supply, internal fans and large case - all work okay. Also ssd that I want as a second drive plus lots of old sata drives. And tons of external drives.

 

Will discard a 13 year old screen, older cpu & cooler, motherboard, ram, and other items.

 

Thinking about ordering an almost latest cpu (& cooler), motherboard, 8-16 gig ram, DVD thingy, 27-28” non-curved 1920 x 1280(?) monitor, mSata (1-2 gig) and an esata (which, when first iPad-entered, comes out as rasta).

 

Might have forgotten stuff. Looking at InvadeIT and Jib, both favourites.

 

Anyway, who could put it together here in my Pattaya condo? I depend on Khun Ae for fixes, but is he the guy? Who would you recommend? Parts to be discarded might make for an okay tip. 

 

What have I not thought of or mis-screwed up?

 

Cheers.

 

 

 

You can buy a pre-built PC from JIB in TukCom and they will also assemble new parts into a PC for you. As far as I know they will also reuse old parts if possible. I have never had any problems with buying things from them and their prices are competitive for Thailand.

 

In any case I would forget Win7 and would upgrade to Win10. Do it as a fresh install.

 

But why do you think you need such a recent spec machine? I'm using a 5-year-old one with a decent SSD and 12Gb of RAM and it's plenty fast enough, even for the fairly intensive use I put it to. And it doesnt sound as though you do anything with yours that would require masses of power. Perhaps you could be more specific?

 

And from what you say I suspect that installing Win10 afresh, fitting a new USB3 card and possibly changing the power supply would probably fix your old PC for minimal cost. If you could be more specific about exactly what doesnt work it would be easier to tell.

E-sata, a better video card and a better monitor can probably all be added to your existing machine.

What are your primary uses of a PC? Gaming? Productivity? Photoshop? Video editing?

 

What is your budget?

 

There are shed-loads of builds on Youtube.

 

I'd probably start from scratch.

 

Within your budget, I'd decide on the MB/CPU first, then choose a really good case (important if considering liquid cooling - I'm partial to the Fractal Design Define S case for standard types of builds) and power supply. An M.2 4xPCiE SSD drive (assuming your MB supports it) is very handy.

 

Many new builds are DVD-drive free.

 

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