Looking to upgrade, confused

[Euro_Hunter]

I currently have a Intel P4 3.06ghz 533fsb, I know its old hat

Just wondered what would give me best bang per buck without costing a mint, even second hand would be good.

I am a bit confused with all the cpu types out now, it was a lot easier when speed was determined on Mhz alone.

Would also like to see bench mark results so I could see how much faster the cpu's are in comparsion to mine.

Cheers

Nige.

 

[qwerty07]

e6300 £130
gigabyte DS3 £110?

and off you go. Great bang/buck ratio

 

[nick_lerwill]

would you not also have to get some new memory to go with that

 

[qwerty07]

Yeah of course I was just giving him a place to start.

 

[Euro_Hunter]

would you not also have to get some new memory to go with that

Thats one of my big concerns what initially seems a pretty good value upgrade soon costs a lot more than you bargained for.

Another £100-£160 for 1gb DDR2 Ram
£80-£300 for PCI-E graphics card (I still have AGP)

Looks like I'm going to have to save for a while.

 

[Participant]

Not necessarily.

Search for the Asrock VSTA - sold by other e-tailers. It allows AGP / DDR1 as well as PCI-E / DDR2!! Plus it's less than £40 delivered.

 

[JOOLS224]

it gets painfull

Save's a understatement just started looking 4 a cpu.Just ordered stuff online ended up spending nearly £600. I FEEL ILL!!!!!!!!

 

[JOOLS224]

ASROCK

Thats the mb i've got not nf4 but still a good mb for £44.