£300 Upgrade, advice needed!!!

big_harry

big_harry

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£400 Upgrade, advice needed!!!

I want to spend £400/£450 upgrading my rig, but don't know where to start really, as everything could do with upgrading! Just want a general opinion on what people think i should get with this limited budget!

So far i have :
ACPI Uniprocessor (AMD Athlon XP 2000+)
RADEON 9800pro GFX Card
1gb HDD Ram
80gb Hard Drive
A-Bit NF7 MotherBoard

I'd really liek to upgrade gfx, processor to a dual core, and ofcourse mobo, and ram, but am open to any suggestions that will be more effective with this limited budget!

This is what i was thinking thus far:
AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core (2.6ghz) £133
Asus MZNPV Mx Mother Board £44.50
Corsair 1GB DDR2 Ram £40
Point of View 8800GTS 320mb GFX Card £185.50
550w PSU £20

Any suggestions, improvements or anything you think i should/shouldnt be upgrading and any alternatives???

Help is much appreciated!
 
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Welcome to the Forum big harry :)

I would recommend this for your budget:

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Asus GeForce 8800 GTS HTDP 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £184.99
(£217.36) £184.99
(£217.36)
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £47.99
(£56.39) £47.99
(£56.39)
MSI K9N Neo-F nForce 550 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £44.99
(£52.86) £44.99
(£52.86)
OcUK Huntkey 550W PSU £37.99
(£44.64) £37.99
(£44.64)
Sub Total : £385.95
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
Vat : £69.28
Total : £465.18

Intel Core2Duo is better but it would mean that you wouldn't be able to get a really good gfx card and the AMD spec is good enough and is better for your price margin.
 
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