Looking for advice on upgrading

Airevu · 28 Jan 2010 at 21:00

Hello,

I bought this pc from overclockers a few years ago and am now getting to the point where i want to upgrade.

the system is as follows:

Abit IP-35 Pro mobo
Intel Q6600 @3ghz
4gb Ocz RAM
8800gts
600w psu

So ive been looking into what i would love to upgrade to but i cannot afford to do it all at once. I'm hoping i can just start upgrading pieces bit by bit. What i would love to know first off is can i replace the mobo with "Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R" and will all my current hardware still be compatible ie, processor, graphics card etc?

I would then like to move onto the graphics card (thinking of the 5870) and then finally updating the processor to the new i range of intels.

Any info would be appreciated.

RJC · 28 Jan 2010 at 21:09

Your current cpu will not be compatable with the EX58-UD3R due to the Q6600 being socket 775 & X58 being socket 1366 and used with the i7 cpu's.

Have you thought about the i5 750 or the AMD 955, both of which will require a motherboard upgrade and memory upgrade (the AMD can be used with ddr2 motherboards)

Mr Krugga · 28 Jan 2010 at 21:13

Damn it, Q6600 is still a nice piece of hardware, get your hands busy with overclocking it to 3.6GHz or so, buy a better cooling if necessary and add Radeon 5850 to it. You couldn't end up much better with an upgrade of approx. 240 quid.

What PSU have you got there?

Airevu · 28 Jan 2010 at 21:16

looks like i may have got something mixed up then, i was looking at just upgrading he g crad but it seemed everything nowadays is pci-e 2.1, as my mobo only has pci-e 1.0 i keep reading that it produces some sort of bottleneck for the newer cards. Hence looking into the mobo upgrade. This true?

psu is a corsair, TX650.