£500 upgrade

meLonFarMer

meLonFarMer

meLonFarMer

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I'm currently running a 3.2 P4 with 1gig of ram and a 6800gt (I think it’s a 6800 - it died at some point and the replacement was a slightly newer/upgraded model). Its starting to become a little slow in a lot of games and I think the HD is on the way out. Now that my rig is getting pretty 'old' I figured I could actual get a noticeable upgrade for a fairly cheap price.

I was thinking about spending less than £500 to upgrade the Processor, MB, Graphics card and get a new 500gb Hard drive – would keep PSU, case, monitor, sound card. Machine would be primarily for gaming.

I'm looking for a recommendation on components at that price point, and whether or not the £500 would give me a noticeable upgrade from my current machine.

Cheers.


*edit* I put together a spec myself, but i've not kept up with hardware changes for ... well ... years, so i'm a little clueless :p

Abit AB9 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.99
Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £55.99
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £57.99
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - £164.99
Intel Core 2 DUO E4400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £79.99

Total inc vat £498.14
 
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meLonFarMer said:
I'm currently running a 3.2 P4 with 1gig of ram and a 6800gt (I think it’s a 6800 - it died at some point and the replacement was a slightly newer/upgraded model). Its starting to become a little slow in a lot of games and I think the HD is on the way out. Now that my rig is getting pretty 'old' I figured I could actual get a noticeable upgrade for a fairly cheap price.

I was thinking about spending less than £500 to upgrade the Processor, MB, Graphics card and get a new 500gb Hard drive – would keep PSU, case, monitor, sound card. Machine would be primarily for gaming.

I'm looking for a recommendation on components at that price point, and whether or not the £500 would give me a noticeable upgrade from my current machine.

Cheers.


*edit* I put together a spec myself, but i've not kept up with hardware changes for ... well ... years, so i'm a little clueless :p

Abit AB9 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.99
Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £55.99
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £57.99
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - £164.99
Intel Core 2 DUO E4400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £79.99

Total inc vat £498.14
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I would spec but OCUK main site is down for me.

Something like the following should be within your budget.

CPU - C2D E6600 Conroe
RAM - Crucial Ballistix 6400 2BG
Mainboard - Gigabyte GA P35C-DS3R
HDD - 500 Gb Seagate
GFX - 8800GTS 640

What PSU have you got?

EDIT it's probably over TBH.
 
There we go:

Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard £81.99
(£96.34) £81.99
(£96.34)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £164.99
(£193.86) £164.99
(£193.86)
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £68.99
(£81.06) £68.99
(£81.06)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £56.99
(£66.96) £56.99
(£66.96)
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA663) £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
Sub Total : £427.95
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £76.46
Total : £513.36
 
meLonFarMer said:
I'm currently running a 3.2 P4 with 1gig of ram and a 6800gt (I think it’s a 6800 - it died at some point and the replacement was a slightly newer/upgraded model). Its starting to become a little slow in a lot of games and I think the HD is on the way out. Now that my rig is getting pretty 'old' I figured I could actual get a noticeable upgrade for a fairly cheap price.

I was thinking about spending less than £500 to upgrade the Processor, MB, Graphics card and get a new 500gb Hard drive – would keep PSU, case, monitor, sound card. Machine would be primarily for gaming.

I'm looking for a recommendation on components at that price point, and whether or not the £500 would give me a noticeable upgrade from my current machine.

Cheers.


*edit* I put together a spec myself, but i've not kept up with hardware changes for ... well ... years, so i'm a little clueless :p

Abit AB9 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.99
Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £55.99
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £57.99
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - £164.99
Intel Core 2 DUO E4400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £79.99

Total inc vat £498.14
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Only change I'd make would be changing the BFG 8800 for an OcUK one and getting a better motherboard, P35 chipset.
 
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