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Dharok

Dharok

Dharok

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Ramsgate, Kent
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.
 
get a p35 chipset board and some ballistix 5300 2gb kit, and your sorted really.

By xmas the 8800s will be old news ;)

EDIT:

Just noticed you've got a AGP GFX card, your be better to upgrade that to a PCI-E card too, get a 7900 from MM/the auction site for 70 ish

and your sorted ;)
 
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. :)
 
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. :)
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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.
 
That board does not have intergrated graphics so you would need a new card with that board. Have you considered buying the new pci-e graphics card now and replacing the board and memory later?
 
gvers said:
That board does not have intergrated graphics so you would need a new card with that board. Have you considered buying the new pci-e graphics card now and replacing the board and memory later?
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Well that would leave him with a new pci-e gfx card and an agp mobo :p
 
gvers said:
Does that the AsRock Dual-VSTA not have both although the AGP and PCi-e 16x but only works at 4x?
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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.
 
You could buy something like this

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA663) £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard £81.99
(£96.34) £81.99
(£96.34)
Asus GeForce EN7300TC 512MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £25.99
(£30.54) £25.99
(£30.54)
Sub Total : £162.97
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.25
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £29.96
Total : £201.18


and sell the AGP card on a well known auction site
 
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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.
 
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