Opinions Please Folks... Worthwhile Upgrade

danceforfreedom

danceforfreedom

danceforfreedom

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After buying a cheap base unit a while ago for £250 plus buying a 2nd hand Radeon 4890 for £70 plus 2nd hand OCZ Stealthstream 650w £20 = £340 this is what I had going...

[1st System]
Athlon II x 4 @ 2.8ghz
2gb DDR2
Radeon 4890
450gb Samsung 7200rpm Drive
OCZ 650w
Cheapo Biostar Mobo

Right now its running like this:

[Current System]
Phenom II x 2 @ 4.1ghz
2gb DDR2
Radeon 5850
450gb Samsung 7200rpm Drive
OCZ 650w
Cheapo Biostar Mobo

I bought a phenom ii x2 560 for the just less price I sold the Athlon.
Sold the 4890 and bought a 5850 for an extra £70 (two weeks before 5870 price reductions :( )

Early next week I got some DDR3 coming (won it on auction and made a small profit off selling the ddr2!!! :) ) so can put the cpu + gpu + ram together with the £99 Asus Crosshair III I have waiting here.

Reason I got this CPU a while ago was for the core unlocking potential ( a gamble I know) but I know this one I have is good for it as tried in a friends 790fx mobo and had it running on 4 cores at 3.9Ghz (it runs at 4.1Ghz with 2 cores).

So early next week this will be my system:

[Next Week System]
Phenom II x 4 @ 3.9Ghz
Radeon 5850
2gb DDR3
450gb Samsung 7200rpm Drive
OCZ 650w
Asus Crosshair III

This will be about £150ish upgrade from the 1st system at the top and will make all in all a £490 system.

Sorry to rattle on but this the base unit I bought 1 year ago and the few parts I've bought and sold since its basically been the first year Ive bought n sold parts and took and put back together my own PC. Its FUN!!!

Was hoping for opinions basically on whether the £150 to take it from the 1st System at the top to the one I will have next week has been a worthwhile upgrade and have I ripped myself spending a total of £490 doing it this way? Its going to be used mostly for games and will I notice a difference in the games next week from what im currently running? :)
 
Personally, I would go for 4gb ram if possible, as 2gb will be eaten up pretty quick these days if you're gaming.

There wont be a MASSIVE difference in gaming, but the x4 will fare much better in cpu-intensive games
 
Im going to get another 2gb and hopefully a 60gb SSD for myself for xmas if I can afford it :D The 2gb Ive got coming is 2x1gb OCZ Gold and it will be 4x1 in all slots running dual channel. Currently its 1x2gb DDR2 single channel.

I just know a lot of guys here build their own system, this is the first time I have really. Will I end up with a good system from price perspective, or was it stupid to buy the base system first (which I forgot to add is a pretty sweet case that it came with) then sell and upgrade parts?
 
danceforfreedom said:
have I ripped myself spending a total of £490 doing it this way?
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Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Vapor-X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £170.36
(£144.99) £170.36
(£144.99)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £117.49
(£99.99) £117.49
(£99.99)
Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD 790FX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £99.99
(£85.10) £99.99
(£85.10)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £67.99
(£57.86) £67.99
(£57.86)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £31.98
(£27.22) £31.98
(£27.22)
Corsair Value 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Single Channel Module (VS2GB1333D3) £23.49
(£19.99) £23.49
(£19.99)

Sub Total : £435.15
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £77.90
Total : £523.05

Doesn't include a case or optical drive, however that's if you bought everything new now. I wouldn't personally have made some of the upgrades you went for, however you've still got a decent system and you've not spend a huge amount on it. :)
 
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