Cheap upgrade

[alexthecheese]

I have an Intel E2160 processor along with an Ati HD2600. It was never intended to be anything more than just a desktop internet browsing PC along with being a media player.

I'm considering spending a little cash to give it more beans, so can someone please suggest an upgrade path for me please? I'm not even sure what motherboard I have/socket it uses, but I expect it's out of date now, so perhaps to keep it cheap I can just overclock it and then buy a graphics card and RAM for more grunt?

Thoughts?

 

[mickyflinn]

List your system spec and budget please

 

[alexthecheese]

Specs I have to hand are just as follows:

Intel E2160, dual core 1.8ghz
ATI HD2600
4gb RAM
Budget: £150?

Don't know the motherboard atm, sorry. Would it be worth overclocking the CPU as much as I can, as I bought it on the basis it can go to 3ghz, and then just buy the best gfx card I can?

 

[davidansell]

buy a quad core bundle for about £150 including ram/mobo/cpu

used of course.

 

[Doomedspeed]

buy a quad core bundle for about £150 including ram/mobo/cpu

used of course.

Or a dual core sandy. New

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £87.59
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £23.99
Total : £170.96 (includes shipping : £9.50).

 

[dacads]

^

Drop the CPU down to a G840, which will bring spend to £150

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-386-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=