Best route for upgrade?

Bales1983 · 8 Mar 2006 at 09:05

Hi,

My pc is coming on to 18 months old so i need to upgrade,

Current spec is:

Amd Sempron 2800 (2GHZ) Sckt A
PCChips M848ALU (don't ask!)
3 sticks crucial 512mb ram (333mhz)
Ati X850XT PE GPU AGP

2 ide hard drives

Been having lots of windows errors of late so need to format and reinstall so now is best to change some parts

Im going to need:

Processor
M/Board
Ram (400mhz) how much of it i dont know?

Id like to keep my agp graphics and IDE hard drives so need a motherboard that will take those, and something sufficiently powerful to not bottleneck my graphics.

Im not setting a budget as it wont stick with me it never does!

Just stay reasonable!

Cheers guys

Lee

volt9291 · 8 Mar 2006 at 09:37

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM)
£159.95

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£12.95

DFI LanParty UT NF3 Ultra (Socket 939) Motherboard (MB-016-DF)
£69.95

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£99.95

Subtotal £342.80
VAT £59.99
Total £402.79

I think thats nice for £402.79, you could even overclock the 3800 to about 2.5Ghz

Hope you were thinking about 400

if not you could get 1gb ram and different mobo

muckymick · 8 Mar 2006 at 09:45

AMD 3700 san diego cpu.
Asrock dual sata mobo,gives you an upgrade path to pci-e at a later time.
2gig of memory to suit budget.

ACESHIGH · 8 Mar 2006 at 10:12

- AMD Athlon X2 3800+ dual core
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
- 2 Gig RAM (Corsair Value are good & cheapish)
- Asrock Dual AGP / PCIE mobo - good if you want to keep aGP card & upgrade to PCIE later (but not sold at OcUK)

Bales1983 · 8 Mar 2006 at 10:33

How much should i be paying for an asrock dual then?

The athlon dual core looks good,

Lee

muckymick · 8 Mar 2006 at 10:40

Asrock boards can be had for around £45-50.
Its a real pity ocuk dont stock them as they seem to be very popular.