Need advice for upgrades

[Wr@ith]

Hi all just like to thank you for any replies given in advance, plus im a noob at pc upgrades

Im looking to update my pc as its not up to the standard for new games coming out these days. Im looking to spend around £500-£600 on a new motherboard perhaps one that can have duel processors and support a good graphics card that will last a goodly while and some new ram while im there with a new hard drive about 300 to 400 gig.

So thats a,

New Motherboard with dual processors capacity,
2 Chips which work well together,
A Spankingly shiny new Graphics card,
2 gig of ram,
A nicely sized hard drive,

Thanks again for any help you can give me.

Tom

 

[semi-pro waster]

Welcome to the forums. I don't know too much about multi-CPU capable motherboards but I'm not totally sure why you would want one? Dual core chips are pretty much the de facto standard now which mostly eliminates the need for dual CPU setups. Tyan do make dual CPU capable motherboards or at least they used to but there aren't too many manufacturers that do.

As a general suggestion I'd probably suggest a Conroe based system, maybe a 6300 or 6400, 2gb of Geil(but any decent brand would do) PC5300 or PC6400, a Gigabyte DS3 or DS4 if you are overclocking, graphics card either an X1900XT or the 7900GTX is also worth considering given the recent price drops. Finally hard drive is an easy recommendation for a Seagate 7200.10.

The only problem with the above is that even without the hard drive those options come to around £600 and there isn't a huge amount you can do to lower the cost so dual CPUs isn't really an option unless you are prepared to buy something like an older set of Xeons.

Final note is that for your signature I think you mean "those" rather than "though's"

 

[Firegod]

How about this,

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail - £137.46
Asus P5B Deluxe (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £140.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - £70.44
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 ZX PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit - £182.07
EVGA GeForce 7600 GT KO 256MB GDDR3 HDTV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail - £152.74

TOTAL - £683.70 inc.VAT

Good clocking chip, very good hard drive and I think that graphics card is a very good performer for the price!

EDIT: You'll probably not need a SATA cable either as the mobo should come with it's own connections (I know my DFI mobo did).