A little help - £450 upgrade

[burtie]

Hi all right i have a Asus socket 775 intel motherboard running a intel celeron 2.6 chip(yes i no)

Right anyway i also have 1 gb of ddr2 and my motherboard is pci-e.

I want to change the cpu and the gpu to something that plays some games for now(looking to go AMD later with there new socket)

Can anyone point me in the direction of a cpu,gpu,and a hdd+200gb,that will run the latest games for a while.

Me thank you

My buget is £450

 

[S.T.F.U]

Hi all right i have a Asus socket 775 intel motherboard running a intel celeron 2.6 chip(yes i no)

Right anyway i also have 1 gb of ddr2 and my motherboard is pci-e.

I want to change the cpu and the gpu to something that plays some games for now(looking to go AMD later with there new socket)

Can anyone point me in the direction of a cpu,gpu,and a hdd+200gb,that will run the latest games for a while.

Me thank you

My buget is £450

I'm not 100% sure but I think DDR2 Memory don't work with AMD Processors.

 

[ACESHIGH]

DDR2 will work with AM2 (AMD's next socket i believe, though).


Anyway to OP question.... (graphics & HDD you can keep for any future systems)....


Intel Pentium 4 630 "LGA775 Prescott" 3.0GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-094-IN)
£117.44*Including VAT
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 NCQ 250GB ST3250824AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-058-SE)
£64.57*Including VAT
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC)
£246.69*Including VAT

Total = £428.70*Including VAT

OR if have the extra budget this...

Intel Pentium 4 630 "LGA775 Prescott" 3.0GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-094-IN)
£117.44*Including VAT
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 NCQ 250GB ST3250824AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-058-SE)
£64.57*Including VAT
HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-HT)
£293.69*Including VAT

Total = £475.70*Including VAT

 

[AndyOcUK]

P4 3.0GHz http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Intel_Pentium_4_LGA775.html

Geforce 7800GS
XFX GeForce 7800GT Extreme Edition 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (PVT70G-UDF7) (GX-070-XF)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7800__Series.html

You'll then have a great GFX card to work in your AMD rig.

 

[ACESHIGH]

The Geforce 7800GS is an AGP only card so not worth getting.

The XFX GeForce 7800GT Extreme Edition 256MB isnt much cheaper than the X1800XT, yet its a lot slower.

The X1800XT 512MB is the better buy for 1280x 1024 or AA/AF play, but if not concerned then definitely get the X1800XT 256 over the slower 7800GT above, for a similar price.

 

[burtie]

DDR2 will work with AM2 (AMD's next socket i believe, though).


Anyway to OP question.... (graphics & HDD you can keep for any future systems)....


Intel Pentium 4 630 "LGA775 Prescott" 3.0GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-094-IN)
£117.44*Including VAT
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 NCQ 250GB ST3250824AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-058-SE)
£64.57*Including VAT
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC)
£246.69*Including VAT

Total = £428.70*Including VAT

OR if have the extra budget this...

Intel Pentium 4 630 "LGA775 Prescott" 3.0GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-094-IN)
£117.44*Including VAT
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 NCQ 250GB ST3250824AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-058-SE)
£64.57*Including VAT
HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-HT)
£293.69*Including VAT

Total = £475.70*Including VAT

Thanks that little lot looks good,i think i will go with the X1900 XT.

Thanks again.

burtie