It's payday in a week

Spacedman · 22 Aug 2008 at 10:37

And its about god damn time i upgrade my pc. Currently running:

3800 Athlon x2 (939)
DFI Lan party nForce 4 mobo
2 Gb ram
X1900 XT 512mb

The main reason i want to upgrade is for a new monitor, very bored of 1280*1024 now on my Xerox 19". Will also need it for WAR im guessing, AOC was playable, just.

I'd prefere to do a staggered upgrade, maybe getting the monitor, gfx card and psu first, then mobo/cpu/ram at a later date. Thinking of the following:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-090-PC

although i will seriously consider a 24" 'better' modelm, and

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-025-OK

No idea on PSU requirements, will need some help on that one. Requirements are gaming in COD4.

So OCUK forumites, am i going about this the wrong way and will i have to do it all at once? Budget is flexible, not super computer money though please

Thanking you

sibeer · 22 Aug 2008 at 11:26

Sounds like a reasonable plan to me. From a gaming point of view your current system will get far more benefit from the GPU and monitor. The ones you have chosen are good choices and can't really be faulted.

sibeer · 22 Aug 2008 at 11:27

You can also probably overclock your CPU (if you haven't already) to keep up a little more.

sibeer · 22 Aug 2008 at 11:31

PSU wise I would suggest something like the Hiper 580 for a middle ground system:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-009-HP&tool=3

It will happily power two of 4850's and a Quad CPU for future expansion and doesn't cost the earth. I am sure someone will suggest that nothing under a 650W Corsair at twice that price is worth having, but that really isn't the case

Spacedman · 26 Aug 2008 at 15:02

Not a bump as such, ive been away all weekend. Thanks goes out to sibeer for the cracking advice, cheers mate