£170 upgrade.

stifler

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hi, i have £170 burning a hole in my pocket and need to upgrade my pc, at the moment my spec is.

amd 3800x2,
asus a8r mvp 939 socket mobo,
2gig of ocz ram,
9800gt,
160gig maxtor hdd.

i think its time to replace my cpu, mobo and ram, but dont know what to get.

i dont plan on doing any overclocking cus i aint got a clue how to do it, i just want the fastest components i can within my budget.

cheers.
 
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Asus P5QL-E Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£80.49) £69.99
(£80.49)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £57.99
(£66.69) £57.99
(£66.69)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £18.99
(£21.84) £18.99
(£21.84)
Sub Total : £146.97
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL @ Home Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.49
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £22.05
Total : £169.02

and learn to overclock for an even bigger performance gain, its easy with the intel core2 range

swap the ram to http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...86-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813&name=OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) if you can afford to go over 170
 
jak731 said:
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Asus P5QL-E Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£80.49) £69.99
(£80.49)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £57.99
(£66.69) £57.99
(£66.69)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £18.99
(£21.84) £18.99
(£21.84)
Sub Total : £146.97
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL @ Home Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.49
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £22.05
Total : £169.02

and learn to overclock for an even bigger performance gain, its easy with the intel core2 range
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I don't mean to be negative, especially as you went to the trouble of spec'ing it.

But that's £170 for a marginal upgrade.

He's going to have the same number of cores - although running a little faster.
The same amount of memory - DDR2 is a -touch- faster, but not much.

And that's really it :/

The problem is that as I said he's hit a wall and has to do it all at once. I just don't think £170 will do it justice. I think he'd be disappointed with it.

I'd suggest Stifler that you wait until you have a bit more cash.
 
cheers, how much of a difference will i see, performance wise?

and how easy is it to get microsoft to re-activate vista, oem copy.
 
The Halk said:
I don't mean to be negative, especially as you went to the trouble of spec'ing it.

But that's £170 for a marginal upgrade.

He's going to have the same number of cores - although running a little faster.
The same amount of memory - DDR2 is a -touch- faster, but not much.

And that's really it :/

The problem is that as I said he's hit a wall and has to do it all at once. I just don't think £170 will do it justice. I think he'd be disappointed with it.

I'd suggest Stifler that you wait until you have a bit more cash.
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some people have these chips running at 4ghz, surely that says it all and end's your debate... although i do agree if you can wait abit longer then do so untill you have enough cash for a worthy upgrade e8400/8500 or a quad.
 
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chronic86 said:
some people have these chips running at 4ghz, surely that says it all and end's your debate... although i do agree if you can wait abit longer then do so untill you have enough cash for a worthy upgrade e8400/8500 or a quad.
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Some people have them at 4? That's not really any kind of guarantee... However there's way more headroom in the upgrade than what he has at the moment. Edit : Oops, just reread his original post. He's not going to overclock.

I just want the guy to be aware he's not buying stuff at a higher spec.
 
well i've had my set up apart from the gfx card for just over 2 years now, which i feel is starting to really show its age.

how about the amd route with something like a 6000 x2 or 6400 x2.
 
i'm not sure what perfromance increase there will be at stock, but i'm pretty sure it should be enough to warrent an upgrade with mild overclocking( read the sticky in the overclockign thread). this chip is the new 45nm core which has great overclocking ability. i've just built a system yesterday with similar spec to what has been posted here (e5200/2gb ram/mobo) and it was pretty snappy, yet to do any benchhmark tests, for me its worth it but i'd overclock the knackers off it.
 
The Halk said:
Can't. He's hit a wall with socket 939. Needs to dump CPU, motherboard and RAM all at once.
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I tend to agree - I've just found the same problems - (see my threads in the other forums). Least he's got some dosh to do it with! 939 is dead now - you cant find one for love nor money new (well you can on the bay but they're priced WAY over the odds) - 2nd hand is all I can get - and even then I'm not sure I can afford to go that route either!

Mind you stifler if you want to sell me your cpu and ram (if its ddr) let me know! lol :D
 
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gavinlp said:
Mind you stifler if you want to sell me your cpu and ram (if its ddr) let me know! lol :D
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will do, it is ddr and i'll be selling them as soon as i decide on what to get, not looking forward to installing vista again though, all those updates and other crap, thats a days work in itself.

so which is the best way to go, amd or intel?

also are microsoft pretty forgiving when you ask them to activate oem software.
 
stifler said:
will do, it is ddr and i'll be selling them as soon as i decide on what to get, not looking forward to installing vista again though, all those updates and other crap, thats a days work in itself.

Ok - great - look forward to hearing from you - pm me or just post on here and |I'll be in touch.:)
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