Man of Honour
Righto,
I used to build PCs for myself all the time, but for the past few years I just couldn't be bothered. Anyway, I have a Dell Dimension 8300 PoS.. which has served me well for a couple of years.
The only upgrades it's had are graphics card and a bit of extra memory.
I reckon I'll have about £1000-1200 to play with. Is there anything I can salvage from:
P4 3ghz 800mhz jobbie thing
2gb DDR3200 memory
nV 6600GT gfx
SB Audigy 2
CDRW/DVD R drives
What I'd like to do is upgrade the graphics bigtime, but it's only got an AGP slot - I know there's some pretty high end AGP cards just come out, but I think PCI-E would be better (?)
So... I'll be upgrading the Motherboard too... but that means getting a new case (probably, although I suppose I could use my ancient GW802 that's full of holes if all else fails). I don't need silly speeds - so if possible i'd like to use my existing memory - shouldn't slow things down THAT much should it?
CPU - is it worth upgrading that? Maybe an athlon 64 or something like that perhaps, how much faster than a 3ghz p4 would it be...
I would like the (almost) best graphics card(s) I could buy. But i'm not made of money...
I don't need a full system in that I can live with my current optical drives/monitor/keyboard/mouse.. maybe a new sound card would be good too...
Soo....
Mobo, CPU, Memory(???), Graphics Card(s SLI looks nice if affordable) and perhaps case and suitable cooling for it - I'd like quietness. I don't want to overclock, but it has to be able to keep everything cool at fairly warm room temperatures in a room with next to no air circulation around the pc case.
£1200 would be an absolute upper limit - the cheaper the better but I'd like good quality stuff. It's gonna be used for games.
Thanks in advance for your recommendations
I used to build PCs for myself all the time, but for the past few years I just couldn't be bothered. Anyway, I have a Dell Dimension 8300 PoS.. which has served me well for a couple of years.
The only upgrades it's had are graphics card and a bit of extra memory.
I reckon I'll have about £1000-1200 to play with. Is there anything I can salvage from:
P4 3ghz 800mhz jobbie thing
2gb DDR3200 memory
nV 6600GT gfx
SB Audigy 2
CDRW/DVD R drives
What I'd like to do is upgrade the graphics bigtime, but it's only got an AGP slot - I know there's some pretty high end AGP cards just come out, but I think PCI-E would be better (?)
So... I'll be upgrading the Motherboard too... but that means getting a new case (probably, although I suppose I could use my ancient GW802 that's full of holes if all else fails). I don't need silly speeds - so if possible i'd like to use my existing memory - shouldn't slow things down THAT much should it?
CPU - is it worth upgrading that? Maybe an athlon 64 or something like that perhaps, how much faster than a 3ghz p4 would it be...
I would like the (almost) best graphics card(s) I could buy. But i'm not made of money...
I don't need a full system in that I can live with my current optical drives/monitor/keyboard/mouse.. maybe a new sound card would be good too...
Soo....
Mobo, CPU, Memory(???), Graphics Card(s SLI looks nice if affordable) and perhaps case and suitable cooling for it - I'd like quietness. I don't want to overclock, but it has to be able to keep everything cool at fairly warm room temperatures in a room with next to no air circulation around the pc case.
£1200 would be an absolute upper limit - the cheaper the better but I'd like good quality stuff. It's gonna be used for games.
Thanks in advance for your recommendations