New CPU, Motherbard, Memory and GFX

fenrir

fenrir

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I have some spare cash, and have finally decided to upgrade my AMD 2800+
It's for gaming and I'm not interested in overclocking it. (paranoid I'll kill it).

Budget of £600

CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ ?
A Motherboard, 2GB Memory and GFX card.
I'll probably want to add a second GFX card at some point.

I have a 460w Akasa PSU and a Gigabyte CPU Cooler are both ok, or do I need to replace them ?

Cheers.
 
I'd probably suggest something like this for about bang-on the budget, you have a very good overclocking CPU, good Ram, a solid motherboard and one of the quickest single graphics cards available. I wouldn't bother with SLi/Crossfire systems as in general they aren't worth it unless you are running at very high resolutions. Your PSU will be fine, your cooler will not be :)

MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI)
£89.95 £89.95
MY-058-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL)
£124.95 £124.95
GX-047-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3056) (GX-047-CO)
£179.95 £179.95
CP-126-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-126-IN)
£115.95 £115.95
Subtotal £510.80
VAT £89.39
Total £600.19
 
Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 2.13ghz
MSI 975X Platinum PowerUP Edition *crossfire*
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT

£624

If it does turn out your cpu h/s is okay then get a oem chip then you save £22 making it ~£600
 
How about...

CPU - Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 OEM (CP-137-IN) £160.92

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (MB-061-GI) £105.69

Mem - GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz (MY-058-GL) £146.82

Gfx - Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 (GX-047-CO) £211.44


Total £624.87 :rolleyes:
 
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couple more Questions

I need a new cooler for around £25.
I know i went over my "budget", but I was originally only going to spend £500.
And after reading a little about XP64, is it best to wait until more programs are updated ?
I'm mostly concerned with Sygate Firewall, Trend Micro AntiSpyware and Yanicsoft WinXP Manager.

Soon as I have answers I can order :)
 
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