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I bought some Geil memory and being stupid me just realised I don't have a DDR2 motherboard. :o

After playing Crysis and UT3 I found that these "next gen" games aren't for me. However the CoD 4 demo is awesome and I can see my playing this for many hours! It runs well but I just need a little more FPS so wanting to spend around £150 replacing some parts.

I have:
AMD 3500+
1gb DDR (2gb Geil DDR2 spare...)
8800GTS

So should I just get a new motherboard, hard-drive (think mines about to die) and a slightly quicker CPU (I was looking at the Duo2 2* range but not sure which is a good deal? Is it a reasonable budget?
 
A new motherboard and CPU would be good at that budget, especially with a healthy overclock. It might be rough fitting a HDD into the mix.

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think it will be pretty close, i'd run software over the hd to see if its on its last legs, what size is you're current drive ?

would look at a 2160/2180 processor with something like the abit ip35-e mobo then whatever may be left on a h/d.
 
My HDD is 250gb. Will my HDD work in that motherboard? I think it's IDE, the white rectangle looking plug, it's about 3cm wide. Long time since I looked inside. :) What software should I run?

What over clocking capabilities does the CPU have? Enough money for a good fan?
 
Cyber-Mav said:
get the cheaper p35 NON "C" board which does not have dd3 ram slots. its cheaper and spend the extra saved cash on a e2180 cpu.
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Nice thanks.

Can anyone recommend a fan for the CPU if I were to overclock it? With the Geil 6400 800mhz RAM what can I expect to overclock the 2180 to stable?

Thanks.
 
3ghz is easily realistic with the GeiL ram.............. theres a post somewhere with someone with it at 4ghz :O although they have phase cooling and it was with 1.6vcore


i have the E2160 at 3.2 ghz stable with the GeiL ram a TT120 and an EVGA 650i mobo

and its my first overclock

The E2180 has a x10 multi which will make hitting 3ghz easier

there also the new M0 revision

i would highly recommend the 650i mobo because a) its cheap b) i like the name :) others wouldnt because there are known issues with FSB holes (easy to get around even tho i havent had a problem with it yet) etc but its still a brilliant mobo for the price............. unless u want SLi
 
you'll have a hard time OC'ing with the NF650i chipset anywhere near as far as you will with the Intel P35 chipset.
 
You can overclock pretty well with stock cooling, I'm sure its possible for 3GHz on an E2180 with stock cooling, easy. But that spec seems fine.
 
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