£200 upgrade from...

Dharok · 10 Jul 2007 at 14:28

Intel Core 2 Duo e6300
AsRock Dual-VSTA
1GB DDR2 667 unknown brand memory
AGP nVidia 6800XT
Hitachi Deskstar 250GB 16mb cache
19" widescreen acer monitor
Stock cooling
X-Blade "Gaming Case" lol.

I was thinking of a nice motherboard and memory upgrade. Perhaps a DS3R and some Crucial Ballistix 800MHz? Atm I don't play many recent games and am probably going to buy a 8800GTS at around Christmas and probably get a new case then aswell.

So yea if I upgrade the mobo and memory and perhaps some nice cooling I could get a 3GHz+ overclock out of it.

Dharok · 10 Jul 2007 at 15:37

bliss said:
The DS3R isn't AGP. So if you upgrade your mobo and RAM you'll need a PCI-E graphics card to go with it. Use the MM for a cheap replacement.

edit: ahh beaten to it.

Meh well I'm really needing a graphics card for now, can't I just use the onboard for a while till I get the money to get hold of a 7900 or whatever.

Dharok · 10 Jul 2007 at 16:57

gvers said:
Does that the AsRock Dual-VSTA not have both although the AGP and PCi-e 16x but only works at 4x?

Yea but obviously it's an entry level motherboard so I would like to update the motherboard and ram before graphics as graphics is not what I need straight away.

Dharok · 10 Jul 2007 at 18:27

Yea well I was thinking of the OCuk 7600GT actually just to keep me going till christmas as it only works out around £20 more than I would have liked to have spent.