New budget new upgrade advice

[willhub]

Hi, well hopefully if I get what I am supposed to be getting for my birthday I will have £557 to spend on upgrading my computer, and if I get to do this job it will bring the cost up to 707.

Anyway I would like to know what possible setup I could get for 557 and another one for 707, maybe with the 707 an 8800GTX and C2D or 8800GTS and a quad core?.

So the most probable cost I will have to spend is £557.

I need CPU, motherboard, ram and GPU, what could I get for £557 and £707?

 

[shine]

Try these on for size:

 

[Will_3rd]

 

[semi-pro waster]

Very exact figures you have there. If the £557 is an absolute then you could drop the CPU to an E6320 and it should be about on budget.

 

[willhub]

Very exact figures you have there. If the £557 is an absolute then you could drop the CPU to an E6320 and it should be about on budget.

Will an E6320 overclock good aswell?

Thanks aswell guys, some nice stuff there

Does anyone know about the onboard sound on these motherboards? Is it good quality as I wont have an X-Fi anymore.

Also need one for £607 since all I might be getting for my bday is £100, so possibly shave the cost off of the ram and cpu.

 

[phatboy]

Im a big fan of the Allendale, people are getting great results from em, up to 3.8ghz!, + it means with the saving you can have another 2gb and still be at the bottom end of your budget

 

[willhub]

hmm tempting.


What you think of this?

Hmmm I need a PSU in the same costs now too

 

[willhub]

Ok, I thought up 2 more selections, which one do you think I should go for?

HD2900XT:

8800GTX:

£736 with postage and all that for 8800.

 

[*Chris]

I would go for the GTX spec if you have the money, but there isnt a massive performance increase over the 2900s, and the Geforce vista drivers leave a lot to be desired.

All depends on what res you'll be playing i suppose.