Considering upgrade (While keeping AGP card)

dúncky · 23 Oct 2007 at 20:00

I'm considering upgrading my "rig" and don't really want to spend much money. I currently have an AMD 2400, 1gb mem, Nvidia 6800gt in my system. I don't really want to buy another graphics card so I was considering buying the ASRock 4CoreDual which has an AGP slot. I would then buy an Intel Quad Q6600 (energy efficient) CPU and some 667mhz 2gb Crucial Ballistix memory.

The only bugbear is my PSU, it is a 400w Akasa jobby. Will it be man enough to power the Quad Core cpu? Would I also experience any form of bottle neck with running my old AGP card with the new Motherboard, CPU and RAM?

Any help will be appreciated.

dúncky · 23 Oct 2007 at 22:55

that CPU will really overclock to 3 ghz? i'm impressed! thats a real bargain system you've specced me up.. would i be better off going with an nvidia card though? thanks for your replies guys

dúncky · 23 Oct 2007 at 23:04

wicked, i remember a time when Nvidia trounced them for a long while!

that 1950XT card is bloody cheap and ive just noticed it's 512mb bigger brother! do any Intel mobos support crossfire? i'm guessing not due to the AMD ATI takeover

dúncky · 23 Oct 2007 at 23:33

wicked, i'll hang on till next week then.. thanks for your advice everybody, much appreciated