Low end PC budget upgrade request

[Kitejumper]

Hi All,

I am looking to do a sub £100 upgrade to my low spec pc. Its just used for Office, surfing and burning. I just need to speed it up a bit as it can get rather slow when app switching and loading. So just looking for a heads up on my initial choice. Could you please take a look and advise ? Cheers KJ

Motherboard, I currently have the
MSI K9 Neo v3 ATC Socket AM”, 100FSB , NFORCE 560 CHIPSET DDR2 10/100/1000
• Supported RAM Technology DDR2 SDRAM
• RAM Installed ( Max ) 0 MB / 8 GB (max)
• Supported RAM Speed PC2-3200, PC2-4300, PC2-5300, PC2-6400
• RAM features Two DDR channels
Compatible Processors Sempron, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2

Memory I currently have

Kingston 667Mhz DDR2 Bon-ECC CL% DIMM 512mb x2

Looking at upgrading to:

OcUK 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel
800MHz RAM Speed, CAS 5-5-5-15 Timings, 1.8-2.1v VDIMM, 1yr Warranty with OcUK.
£29.99 inc VAT

CPU, I currently have a:
AMD Sempron LE1250, SKT AM2, 2.2Ghz, 512KB CACHE, 45

Looking at at a :
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 7850+ Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM2+) - Retail
Dual Core Technology, 2.80GHz clock speed, 2x512KB L2 Cache and 2x1MB L3 Cache, 64-Bit Technology, HyperTransport Technology, 3yr Warranty
£47.99


Cheers
KJ

 

[pastymuncher]

That would give you a nice boost but you will need a new motherboard as well. Your board does not support the new cpu's i am afraid. See here. The Neo-F boards are built down to a budget and should be avoided. From my experiences with them, they are cheap and very nasty, poor quality boards.

Also, if you don't have 64 bit versions of Vista or XP then you will only get to use 3-3.25Gb of ram.

 

[mp260767]

how about :

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ 2.60GHz (Socket AM2) - OEM £48.99 (£42.60)

OCZ Platinum Revision 2 XTC 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Series (OCZ2P800R22GK) £19.99 (£17.38)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro PWM CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2) £17.24 (£14.99)

Sub Total : £74.97
Shipping : £7.25
VAT : £12.33
Total : £94.55

 

[Kitejumper]

Thx for the head up.
I dont want to change my mother board just boost what i can for an easy fit and cheap outlay.

So the link you gave , list all the cpu that will work on my current motherboard, so the Athlon X2 Windsor ADO4600IAA5CS 4600+ 200 woudld work out of the box, yes?

Only using the normal XP version so 4BG would be a waste of a perhasp up to 512MB, i can live with that . the ram wopuild work then.

Cheers

KJ

 

[siumatfung]

few quid overbudget but u get free dleivery so minus the delivery

 

[Kitejumper]

Thx all so far, looks lik I have the CPU and MEM locked down. The next query would be if i would really need the cooler for general non overclocked use ? the review says its large and I cant say wihtout a check later if it would fit !

The motherboard is almost tempting but then the dark side of o/cing creeps in, a bit more here, a little faster there and before you know it I've created a gaming monster.


cheers
KJ