Old Pc, what can be upgraded? after the robbery iv grabbed my old (7 years-ish) PC from my dads, it was cutting edge when we where dancing to John Kelly but its a bit dated now. Its still got digital audio ins and a £300 alu case at the time so i want to reuse this if possible. the case has its own internal fans which are quite noisey tho... Whats changed slot and cable wise since i was last inside a pc? I see hd's are using Sata? (does anything else inside the pc use these connections?)... do the hard drives use a new power cable too??? what about the slot cards do they still use pci / isa / agp slots ? and the case standard, what was it again atx? or ata? anyway it was the common on at the time.. do the new mobo's fit the old case standard? so whats the crack with old hard disks? can u run the old ones along side new ones.. to the same mobo or is it a case of upgrading to the new standard i want to keep the case, possibly disabling the fans if possible. keep the sound card.. is it posible?
i'd keep the case, possibly the PSU if it's any good. how big are the hard drives? u can get motherboard with SATA and IDE, if th PSU doesn't have SATA power connects - u can get convertors easy enough. so u could keep the hard disks/CDROMS if u wanted. defo get new motherboard, processor and memory - u probably could salvage the rest. u CAN get faster hard disks for better access times and read rates but it's not necessary ISA is dead, PCI still going, AGP now replaced by PCI-E (PCI-xpress cards) but even if it has a GFX card it'll be worthless.
