Current best upgrade

[OSB]

I've just been offered the chance to upgrade with a budget of around £300. Atm i am running a Barton 2500 at 3200 speeds, i've 1Gb Corsair pc3200 a 9800Pro, all on a Abit NF7-s. I think that the best performance increase would be seen in the processor departement, this is correct? If so, what would be the best bang for buck upgrade atm, or is it worth holding out for a while. Thanks for the advice,

Oli

 

[a1ex2001]

with tht budget get yourself a 939 opty and an asrock dual mobo and maybe even a budget PCIe graphics card with the extra cash you could get selling you old bits

 

[Agent WD40]

Hold off for a while. If you've only got £300 then stay put 'till you can get a few more pennies togther. If you change your CPU you'd probably want to change your socket too. That means you'd have to change your gfx card. And with all that power drain you'd be looking at a better PSU...

So, hang out 'till AM2 is released and the Skt 939 prices should drop, maybe.

Agent.

 

[vanandjuanunited]

CP-142-AM AMD Opteron UP 146 San Diego 2.0GHz 1MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-142-AM)
£129.95 £129.95
GX-055-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO16 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-055-PC)
£79.95 £79.95
MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£59.95 £59.95
Subtotal £269.85
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £15.45
VAT £49.93
Total £335.23

 

[OSB]

thanks for the quick replies. I was thinking it may well be worth holding off as well. I wont have a lot of time to be building something until end of August, by which time it will have all changed, and maybe i'll have some more cash.