Looking for upgrade help

Rinack

Rinack

Rinack

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Hey all,

I am looking to grab a few upgrades for my PC, built it over 2 years ago and its performance is dropping quite fast :p

Current specs

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 nForce 570 SLi
CPU: AMD 64 X2 4200+ 2.2Ghz
RAM: 2GB Crucial DDR2 RAM
GFX: 2 Leadtek 7800 GTX Extreme 256MB in SLI / Also trying a 8800 GTS 640MB right now but not seen a huge performance increase.
Hard Drive: 250GB S-ATA Seagate Barracuda
OS: Windows XP Home edition 32 bit
PSU: Seasonic 600W SLI ready

Basically I am looking to get max performance for gaming, currently playing AoC and would like to run it at 1680x1050 on max settings as well as my other games.

Was looking to go for Vista 64 bit for taking advantage of DX 10

Also looking at

RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tracer RED 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit.
GFX: EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX Superclocked 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+ 3.20GHz (Socket AM2)

What I have listed comes to about £480 inc. VAT, would not mind going over it to get a lasting system that can handle games on max settings.

Would appreciate any advice I can get on better hardware choices, not read up on much in the last few months. :D
 
firstly welcome

now onto your spec

i will not bother with the 9800GTX as the 512MB 8800GTS or the 8800GTX are better choices, also there are new cards by nvidia and ati out very soon. my advise is to wait in the graphics card department until at least 1 week after the new card you want is released so some other poor sod can try the card first and post his review here.
 
Thanks for the welcome :)

Will definately wait a while on the graphics card now, even if the newer ones are expensive at least current high ends will drop in price. :D

Also just noticed that Phenom are AM2 (yes im slow :eek:) and was wondering if the AMD Phenom Quad Core 9850 2.50GHz Black Edition was worth the extra cash. Got a lower clock frequency than the 6400+, but I am wondering if the 2 extra cores will make up for it(will be running at stock i think).

Also wondering if the RAM I picked is good quality, or is there any better around? Price doesnt really matter once its not a huge increase.

Also never mentioned, that on top of games I will be using this for the next 4 years(with upgrades ofc :p) for my degree in programming and possibly some game design, so looking for parts that will last quite a while.

Any more tips greatly appreciated!
 
Or find a 5000 black edition. It has an unlocked multi and it's 65nm rather than the 6400 which is 90nm. Plus it's a fair whack cheaper.

Edit, 5000 black edition is dual by the way, but you can probably get them for about £50.
 
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