Help speeding up my brothers system!

[benjo]

Hi,

My brother is looking to upgrade his system soon to make games like FEAR run smoothly at 1600x1200 on high etc.

His current spec is:

AMD 3200xp Barton
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
1GB (512x2 in dual channel) Value stuff...
X800XT-PE
Soundblaster Audigy LS

He wants to keep the graphics card for a bit, and the soundcard is ok for now.

Need - Faster processor, Motherboard to support both AGP and PCI-E and around 2GB of memory.

Budget - £400-£450

Any price specs would b great.

thnx

 

[benjo]

I've seen the ASRock Dual SATA which supports PCI-E and AGP, its 939.

Need a 939 processor, but I'm not sure what would be the best value for money?

OEM 3800 X2? Or a single core 64?

Also, I've seem some Crucial mem (2x1GB on the This week only section on OCUK).

Any ideas or thoughts?