New PC Build/Upgrade

schumi84 · 18 Jan 2007 at 14:56

Afternoon everybody, posted a new thread in another section regarding my current setup and have decided that i would ideally like to do something with my system, as i have been running it now for about 2 1/2 years and would like to go back to running things at high detail again.

Current setup:
AMD XP3000+(sckt A), DFI Infinity NF2 Ultra, 1GB Geil pc4000 (2x512MB) RAM, 9800pro softmodded to 9800XT, SB Audigy 5.1 , Antec NeoPower 480W PSU and Antec PlusView 1000 AMG Case.Also using a 17" TFT max res 1280*1024.

New Setup:
AMD Athlon 64 4600 Dual Core AM2 - £137.50
DFI K9N Neo-F nForce 550 AM2 - £52.86
GeIL 2GB PC6400 800Mhz DDR2 (GX22GB6400UDC) - £176.24
Sapphire ATi Radeon x1950Pro 512MB DDR3 PCI-e -£147.99
Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Music OEM - £48.77
Saitek Eclipse 2 Illuminated Keyboard -£34.06
Total Cost - £597.42

Keeping the same Case and PSU.

Any comments would be very much appreciated, and yes i am a bit of an AMD groupee, but an Intel alt. wouldn't go amiss

Cheers again

schumi84 · 18 Jan 2007 at 15:09

Which of the C2D would be best at around a similar price bracket, i noticed on one of the other threads a 6300 is 128 quid.

Also which mobo would u go for. My DFI i have has been faultless, have used ABit in the passed but have heard good things with ASUS.

schumi84 · 18 Jan 2007 at 16:07

Great stuff, thanks very much for the info. Looks like like i may well be saying goodbye to AMD........for the timebeing anyways.

Any ideas *** sort of o'cs the CPU has been getting, as am really wanting to get back into the o'c scene. Unfortunately the CPU i have wont budge 1MhZ even on water.

Cheers

schumi84 · 18 Jan 2007 at 16:25

Just a quick thing on the GFX, would the 256MB less memory make much of a difference in gaming, cos am thinking that maybe you would need to be running at very high (1600 +) resolution to make a difference, and justify having 512MB.

If all those new specs look fine then will be doin the upgrade in the near future, hopefully and money permitting.

schumi84 · 18 Jan 2007 at 17:57

Yeah i have heard about that in Doom 3. I do have it, havent played it for ages, but i could run it pretty well on most of the settings on High at 1024x768.

I reckon with the specs of the rest of the machine, 256MB should be ample to be honest.

Am amazed really at how low the repsective gfx card prices are nowadays and the range of different flavours u can get, i remember buying the ill fated 5800 for 230 quid, was nice as had the 5900 cooler on it as it was a vanilla card, so wasnt a leaf blower all the time.

Cant wait to get it all up and running now

schumi84 · 21 Jan 2007 at 14:10

Looks like i am gonna have to reconsider the gfx card then, lol. Havent had nVidia card since my old 5800 but may have a look to see what sort of 512MB cards on my budget, may have a look at the 7900 series.