Annother Upgrade thread

richie123 · 5 Mar 2007 at 14:02

hi
currently have a64 3500
k8nsnxp mobo
2gig ram
looking to upgrade and could do with some help so many desisions.
would lilke something that would clock reasonably well, these i what i thaught so far
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £167.99
(£197.39) £167.99
(£197.39)

Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £214.99
(£252.61) £214.99
(£252.61)
(unsure about this but this is the max that i can really spend)

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-8500 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK) £144.99
(£170.36) £144.99
(£170.36)

have a 600w psu already that should cope reasonably well

but mainly need help with mobo, have 5 sata drives at moment so ideally i would like 6 ports without an expansion card, would be nice to have option to go sli at some point too.

any idears or pointer would be greatly appericated.

furnace · 5 Mar 2007 at 14:03

All looks good to me. I'd go for the Gigabyte DS4 motherboard

I have used it and it's very nice

semi-pro waster · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:12

If you want the possibility of SLi then the Asus P5N-E 650 SLi is probably your best bet at ~£80, it is supposed to overclock nicely as well. The DS4 is very good but is Crossfire only.

Psycho Sonny · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:30

asus p5b deluxe this doesnt support sli but lets be honest you dont wanna ever go down the sli route it is pointless when newer graphics cards are released every 6 months that will kill both your cards combined. SLI only adds like 25% more power and crossfire even less as far as i can remember

richie123 · 5 Mar 2007 at 16:07

if sli isnt viable the ds4 seems good to go for, anyone know any problems to be aware of with this?

what about the gfx card?
any better/cheeper options?

thanx for help so far guys all helps in my desision!

Psycho Sonny · 5 Mar 2007 at 17:40

richie123 said:
if sli isnt viable the ds4 seems good to go for, anyone know any problems to be aware of with this?

what about the gfx card?
any better/cheeper options?

thanx for help so far guys all helps in my desision!

i wpuld personally wait until the r600 is released which is only a very short time away then buy 8800gtx for the same money as what you can get a gts for now

richie123 · 6 Mar 2007 at 13:22

also been thinking about

EVGA nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £149.99
(£176.24) £149.99
(£176.24)

and

BFG nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £149.99
(£176.24) £149.99
(£176.24)
idears?

melbourne720 · 6 Mar 2007 at 13:53

I can recommend the BFG (see sig) but if I was buying now, I think I'd get a P5N 650 SLi and put the difference towards faster RAM, another hard disk or a GTX :cool: