Hi all, a friend of mine is looking to upgrade his computer. His current setup was built by some insurance company after an electrical surge caused the other one to go boom
. He's currently running a P4 630 (Prescott), 2x512 DDR2 in a ECS RC410L/800-M....Now he said hes got about £200 ish to spend on an upgrade as he wants it as future proof as possible. The board unfortunately only has 2 DIMM slots so more memory is only an option if he sells this stuff and then buys 2x1gb, although I don't know how much quicker it will be.
He basically would like to make it as future proof as possible, he doesn't really play any games (bar footy manager 2007) but would like a dual core if possible (I know :/)
I said if he really wanted, he could get a new mobo (must be microATX as it's all his case will accomodate...
) , E6300, and 2x1gb RAM, which would allow him to keep all his current other things (DVD-ROM (IDE), DVD-RW (IDE), HDD(SATA)). But that would cost about £350 (which he is willing to spend)
Just wanted some opinions and options really so that I can put them past him, sorry for the long post but for those who can help please do!
Kiz

He basically would like to make it as future proof as possible, he doesn't really play any games (bar footy manager 2007) but would like a dual core if possible (I know :/)
I said if he really wanted, he could get a new mobo (must be microATX as it's all his case will accomodate...

Just wanted some opinions and options really so that I can put them past him, sorry for the long post but for those who can help please do!
Kiz