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cymatty

cymatty

cymatty

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Ok i hope this is the right forum i hope so as its mainly a cpu question.

Ok my current rig includes an athlon 2800xp barton, and an asus mobo, now i might be able to sell these and so i may have a budget of £150-200 to spend on a new mobo and cpu.

Now a few questions,

1)would i be able to get a suitable uprade for my cash
2)if i changed mobo and cpu would i need to do a fresh install of windows
3)i would prefer a slower cpu i could clock but still needs to be stable

I dont use my rig much for games, but i do use it for photoshop etc, i am not an amd fanboy :D so am open to any suggestions.

Cheers. :)
 
Budget is tight but workable, depends on what spead your ram is ? DDR400/pc3200 then you can use it in Athlon 64 setup, less and it will hold you back and be little use in a Intel setup as they are DDR2 now.
You could get a mobo for £50 then use the other £100 for a cpu, if your budget is only £150.
Both nearer £60
Asus A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard (MB-119-AS)
Gigabyte K8N51GMF-9 nForce 6100 Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-042-GI)

Alternative is an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 or similair from ASRock.

Then
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3200BPBOX) (CP-118-AM)

Unless your cooler will work with a 939 board ? Doubt it, but would need to know what it is.
 
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deadeyedic30 said:
Unless your cooler will work with a 939 board ? Doubt it, but would need to know what it is.
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Don't think it will work, my memory is pc3200 so i am guessing that will be fine, i may end up selling my graphics card mobo processor and ram. Probably would look at getting a Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.6GHz, my budget would then be around £270 for mobo, ram, cpu and pci graphics card.

My reason for me looking at intel is the fact that it seems to clock well and perform in comparison with more expensive processors, i know they are not to good in games but i am not to concerned about that. :)
 
Asrock dual sata mobo will give you an upgrade path for graphics later if you wanted to stay with agp for now.
Either a freezer pro or thermaltake big typhoon cooler, and then your choice of amd cpu to suit budget.
If you sell your old kit on that unmentionable auction site you should get around £100 for it.
 
muckymick said:
Asrock dual sata mobo will give you an upgrade path for graphics later if you wanted to stay with agp for now.
Either a freezer pro or thermaltake big typhoon cooler, and then your choice of amd cpu to suit budget.
If you sell your old kit on that unmentionable auction site you should get around £100 for it.
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Cheers, would the AMD route be better than the intel processor metioned earlier?
 
Not sure,i have always used AMD,no i'm not a fanboy !!!!
Intel kit always seems to be overpriced and i have never had problems with AMD stuff.
My brother in law uses photoshop quite happily with his AMD 64 rig.
 
cymatty said:
My reason for me looking at intel is the fact that it seems to clock well and perform in comparison with more expensive processors :)
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my A64 3200 is OC from 2000Mhz to 2500MHZ so a 25% OC on air is not bad hey?


idle temp 38 load 46c cooler than any P4 as well :)
 
LabR@t said:
my A64 3200 is OC from 2000Mhz to 2500MHZ so a 25% OC on air is not bad hey?


idle temp 38 load 46c cooler than any P4 as well :)
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That looks good will have to investigate that further cheers. :)
 
the dual core 805d intel is cheaper than a 3200 and it also seems to be a great overclocker

i went from an athlon mobile at 2.4ghz to the 805d last week

im currently loving the cheap dual coreness

before if i was doing any video work id have to leave my pc to struggle away and trying to do anything else would be impossible. now i can only notice its doing an other task because of the hdd noises

only problem with it is it isnt as good in games as the athlon 64s are
 
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Ok am looking at getting a 3200 venice is the standard h/s ok for overclocking. What are the current ones clocking at? and i think its going with a DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D. :)
 
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