HELP PLEASE.... need best upgrade possible for £250

You are basically then just building a new PC.

Looking at the motherboard, it is Socket 775, but it does not support the Core2duo's.

So you are basically stuck with what you have in terms of CPU.

With the memory, I cannot from that link find any mention of what you have in there already.

But the motherboard states

# Support for single-sided or double-sided DIMMs (DDR2 400 / DDR2 533)
# Support for up to 4 GB system memory
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So it is good that it has DDR2 support. Therefore defending on your OS, you could increase this.

If you plan on keeping XP I would say any more than 2GB is an overkill, if you plan on using Windows 7, then you would need to check if your CPU has x64 support (there is apps to do this) and if it does I would say to get 2x2GB and use Windows 7 x64.

I say this as really 2GB is the minimum for smooth use of Windows 7, and going over this would likely be 4GB and you would be losing this final gig if you went for x86 W7.

The main things I would recommend to upgrade are (in order of benefit).

1. The memory if you are currently using 1GB. (note your Motherboard does not seem to support PC2-6400, so either this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-097-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=144

or this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-229-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=144


2. The Hard Drive, either go for a Samsung Sinpoint F3 1TB. Or a cheap SSD (the new budget Intel SSD which OCs sell for £93 will be a huge speed improvement and take the load off your CPU and your memory).

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA
or
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-006-IN

3. Improve the graphics card, my suggestion woud be an ATI 4670, ATI 4650, which are all round good cards, cheap now due to the release of the 5670 yesterday, but do not need separate power cables from your PSU.

So if you wanted you could even go for the ATI 5670.

If you wanted to upgrade your PSU this would be a fantastic buy

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-017-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=
 
thanks for all of that

this pc i got now has:
P4 3.0GHz, 1 GB ram (2 x 512mb), NVIDIA 6200LE

ram is PC-2 5300 (i think motherboard doesn't support 2GB sticks maximum is 1GB because i used "crucial.com" to find out what ram i can get)

so it looks like i need new PC
what is better??
buying new PC or building my own system??

i will have a budget of about £1000 hopefully
PC will be used for Internet Surfing, On-line Gaming (all kind off MMORPG's FPS's etc) [ heavy gaming i should say :) ]
any advice?

thanx for all your help
 
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and1fan said:
so it looks like i need new PC
what is better??
buying new PC or building my own system??
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TBH this is the type of question where two different people will adamantly say one or the other.

The arguments for both.

Buying a prebuild you will usually be able to find a nice discounted and fairly reasonable spec system for much less than you can build.

But the problem is that the system will seriously be restricted on parts most people don't think are desirably, so you will get a cheap OEM PSU that will blow if you put anything close ot a powerful PSU on there.

A outdated, OEM motherboard that often cannot be overclocked and the bios cannot be updated as its OEM.

You will also likely get a short warranty.

With building your own you can spec your own perfect PC and get exactly what you need for each part.

The PC parts usually come with 2-3 year warranty as standard.

But it could cost more.

My stance is that I am on the side of building, or if I see a ridiculously cheap deal on hotukdeals for a prebuild PC I would buy it on the assumption that I would ebay and replace the PSU straight off the bat and then just mod the heck out of it.
 
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