£3-400 Upgrade

Diesel · 9 Apr 2006 at 22:59

Hey, just wanted some advice from you guys, since my current mobo went pop. I've probably got around £300-£400 for a mobo, cpu and gfx. I know its not a lot but I want to improve on:

P4 2.66 Northwood
MSI 865PE mobo
XFX GeForce 6600gt 128mb (AGP)

Any suggestions accepted.

syke · 9 Apr 2006 at 23:05

I take it you have RAM?

Monstermunch · 9 Apr 2006 at 23:40

These would be good, but I would suggest looking at selling your old working components and trying to up the budget to around £500 and get an X2 processor for future proofing!:

MB-046-MS MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-046-MS)
£64.95 £64.95
GX-121-SP Sapphire ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-121-SP)
£159.95 £159.95
CP-121-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) (CP-121-AM)
£127.95 £127.95
Subtotal £352.85
VAT £61.75
Total £414.60

Diesel · 10 Apr 2006 at 00:07

Syk3 said:
I take it you have RAM?

Aye, hence I said for mobo, cpu and gfx.

How much are my current CPU and 6600 worth?

DB_SamX · 10 Apr 2006 at 03:24

Recently sold a Gigabyte 6600gt 128mb agp for £72 I think on a certain auction website. Originally bought for £130 last September. May get a bit more (£80ish) privately I reckon.

Diesel · 10 Apr 2006 at 19:46

Would my current Hiper Type-R 480w be Ok to power the upgrade? Would it handle dualcore?

Trigger · 10 Apr 2006 at 19:58

Diesel said:
Would my current Hiper Type-R 480w be Ok to power the upgrade? Would it handle dualcore?

Yeah, that should handle it fine

I'd go with a dual core solution if you can get the funds together :cool:

Naffa · 10 Apr 2006 at 20:08

Trigger said:
Yeah, that should handle it fine I'd go with a dual core solution if you can get the funds together

I agree