Spec me a decent upgrade

andy91

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Ok I am currently running an AMD athlon 64 x2 Dual core 6000+ on a rather basic mother board with 2 gig ddr2 ram and the GPU is an ATI Radeon HD 4600 series.

Looking for a spec for a semi-decent upgrade which will provide a decent performance upgrade but also keep the price moderately low. I am also keen on getting a reasonably energy efficient system.

I would prefer to stick to AMD as they are cheaper and I am open to tri-cores and unlocking a 4th if I can still get those processors however I am not a big overclocking fan so a decent stock speed will do me fine.

I will reuse my current case and PSU if possible as the psu is a Tagan 600w so hofully it will be enough to support a quad core.

Go go for it spec me a mid range machine..
 
Another 2GB DDR2 RAM (Second hand) I have loads of the stuff laying around as does most people.

Get a 955BE Quad Athlon if your board supports it. (We need full specs and budget)

Then depending on what's left with your cash, buy the best GPU you can afford.

N.B. This is of course if gaming is what the machine is used for. You never said.
 
andy91 said:
CPU
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Motherboard
Ram
hardrive
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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex PC Games Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex PC Games £133.99
(£111.66) £133.99
(£111.66)
Gigabyte Z68A-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte Z68A-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £72.98
(£60.82) £72.98
(£60.82)
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
(£19.99) £23.99
(£19.99)
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Total : £435.34

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Feel free to spend a little more on upgrading the GPU.
 
I was thinking about maybe going for an Nvidea GPU this time round? And what is this integrated HD 3000 graphics? and how does that work with the external GPU?
 
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andy91 said:
I was thinking about maybe going for an Nvidea GPU this time round? And what is this integrated HD 3000 graphics? and how does that work with the external GPU?
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Go for one then. The AMD chip isn't set in stone.

The HD 3000 graphics is the graphics die built onto the 2500K processor. If you weren't using the system for gaming, you would use it's graphics as sort of onboard. It doesn't effect your graphics card... they don't work together or anything.

Just go on the shop website and look for a cheap Z68 board that offers Lucid... you will have your answer.
 
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