Advice requested on Upgrade

Colin The Grey

Colin The Grey

Colin The Grey

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Cuurently I have the following Motherboard/CPU setup.

AMD 64 X2 4600+ Skt 939
Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe
3GB DDR

I am looking to upgrade this to an Intel based platform with 2 or 4 GB Ram.

I currently have an EVGA 8800 GTX and a Creative Xi-Fi Fatality Pro so won't be changing them, but may be adding another 8800 GTX later for SLI. My PSU is a Corsair 520. I have 3 Sata Hard drives and 2 DVD burners, will prob replace one of those with a combi HD/Blu Ray when they are more reasonable in price. OS is Vista Ultimate 32Bit so would prob need to upgrade to Vista 64 to gain the most benefit from 4GB of ram.

I've been an avid AMD user for many years and am not up to date on the current Intel Dual / Quad core setups and the best options to go for - so I am looking for some advice on Motherboards and Memory, also not sure if I will need to replace the PSU.

Ideally an Asus Motherboard would be preferrable as I have used many Asus boards in the past with no problems, but looking at the boards available there seem to be many different variations just from Asus alone.

Budget is around £500 - £700.

Any advice would be much appreciated and I thank anyone who replies to this post in advance for their time.
 
Many thanks for the advice Stelly and flibby.

After reading your posts I am looking at getting these:

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Asus P5KC Combo Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound

Only question I have now - would I gain any real benefit moving to 4 Gb and getting Vista 64?

I have 3Gb in my current machine and did notice a difference from when I only had 2Gb.

I am right in assuming that Vista 32 can't address 4Gb?

And if I do change to Vista 64 will I be able to import my mail etc from vista 32? I back up every week onto a removable drive using the built in windows back up tool, so would these backups be ok to restore into Vista 64?
 
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