A few questions...

RaGe · 19 Mar 2006 at 15:39

Hi all,

I have an aging p4 northwood 3ghz build with 1 meg of crucial pc3200 dual ddr ram and a x850 xt pe which I use almost exclusively for gaming/lans. The p4 is really starting to bottle neck..

Now I have £1500 budget to upgrade.

My questions are, should I wait 4 months and see what the intel conroe and the new am2 AMD stuff is like?

If so is there any quick fixes I can buy now to give me a performance boost?

Thanks,

Rob.

RaGe · 19 Mar 2006 at 20:33

Which ram would be best to get?

RaGe · 20 Mar 2006 at 08:16

How does this sound?

Asrock ULi M1695/M1567
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-150-AM)
Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2 (MY-079-CS)
Coolermaster Hyper6+ RR-UNH-P0U1 Cooler (Socket 754/939/478/LGA775) (HS-021-CM)

I currently have a enermax 400w PSU, should I upgrade that too?

Thanks,

Rob.

RaGe · 20 Mar 2006 at 13:14

Thanks for the advice!

Would anyone else recommend another type of ram over what I have specced?

Cheers,

Rob.

RaGe · 20 Mar 2006 at 13:21

No no.. just been out of touch for a long time and was wondering if anyone else had an opinion.

I didn't mean to cause offence.

On a side note for an extra £53 I could get an x2 3800+.
Would it be worth it?

Cheers,

Rob.

RaGe · 20 Mar 2006 at 20:05

Ok, almost made up my mind now.

Asrock ULi M1695/M1567
AMD Athlon 64 4200+ X2 Manchester 90nm OEM
2gb Mushkin Extreme Performance
Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower

Next question, I have a 400w enermax psu. Will I need to upgrade it to run the above? I will still be using my x850 XT PE agp 8x card. 3 hdd's running too..

Cheers,

Rob.