Advice on upgrades.

Drake5

Drake5

Drake5

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Instead of building a brand new PC, I'm considering upgrading in stages as I have a tight budget.

My current specs -

E6750 2.66Ghz
2GB DDR2 Ram PC2-5300 (Old stuff now)
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Motherboard (Cheap motherboard, purchased on a budget)
HD 4850 512MB Graphics card

PSU + Case is fine.

I purchased a 24" Full HD monitor recently but haven't tried any games on it yet, I used to play WoW using a 19" monitor and this spec was fine for that, should I expect much of a slow down using a 24" full HD monitor?

Also, could you give me some advice on what I should upgrade first? For the first upgrade I'll only have about £60 to spend, so I'm thinking 2X2GB DDR2 RAM?

Cheers
 
If you can get a used Q6600, to work on you mobo, then get 2X2GB id say.

edit... or buy

this
AMD Athlon II X3 Tri Core 445 3.10GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail [ADX445WFGMBOX]
£60.99 inc VAT
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-269-AM

then
Asus M4A78LT-M 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard [90-MIBBJ0-G0EAY0WZ]
£48.99 inc VAT
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-424-AS

and
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) [CMX4GX3M2A1600C9]
This Week Only Offer
£39.99 inc VAT
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-203-CS

& sell old kit
 
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I'm thinking that a 24" is going to make your graphics card struggle.

How many stages are you looking for? Because if you were to overclock the cpu, you'd get better performance - especially in such a cpu intensive game as WoW.

Seeing as your budget is only £60, that rules a graphics card upgrade out for the time being, so I would look at getting a new motherboard and cooler and overclocking the cpu. (Normally, I would spec a motherboard, but Im not clued up on LGA775 socket motherboards :p They were before I started getting into tech xD)

I'd then save a bit of money, and get a new graphics card (such as a GTX460 ~£140 atm).

Upgrading the ram will only give you around a 1-2fps boost at most, so its not really worth the money when it can be better spent elsewhere.
 
Hmm with my current rig I would have expected to play WoW with full GFX. Now I remember why I switched to console gaming... PC Gaming is just to expensive.
 
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