Five crashes today. Slightly above average. Time I upgraded (I've a 10 year old Dell Dimension 5000 running XP Pro, with 34GB of hard drive memory and 4GB Ram).
I run Autocad and Photoshop, with the latter being secondary. I don't do gaming, or stream videos. Apparently I need 64 bits, but don't have a clue what this means. I very occasionally need to run CDs, mainly to retrieve old archived stuff. I do need 5 or 6 USB ports, and I guess it needs to run Windows 10. I don't really want to spend more than about £400.
Here are the Autocad system requirements:
Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® 10 (requires AutoCAD 2016 SP1)
Microsoft Windows 8/8.1
Microsoft Windows 7
CPU Type Minimum Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ 64 processor
Memory For 32-bit AutoCAD 2016:
2 GB (3 GB recommended)
For 64-bit AutoCAD 2016:
4 GB (8 GB recommended)
Display Resolution 1024x768 (1600x1050 or higher recommended) with True Color
Display Card Windows display adapter capable of 1024x768 with True Color capabilities. DirectX® 9 or DirectX 11 compliant card recommended.
What do I need, and where do I look? Is something like this along the right lines?
Thanks in advance.