New pc..help me

David _b · 24 Mar 2006 at 18:06

Hi

Havin just had my PSU blow up and kill my motherboard i think its time for a upgrade.

Nothin to extreme as i dont play games a lot any more and currently have 2 x 512 pc3200 and a 80 gig SATA HD

I need a case, GOOD PSU (read above :rolleyes:

), DVD RW, graphics card, motherboard and CPU (amd). Storage.

mainly used for downloading and all the usual stuff dvd's and the occasional game. Nice and quiet would be good.

So...spec me chaps
Thanks

semi-pro waster · 24 Mar 2006 at 18:44

How much money do you have to spend on this and do you want to/can you salvage any parts from your old system(aside from the Ram and hard drive)?

David _b · 24 Mar 2006 at 19:02

Well the hard disk, ram and graphics are all ok. I dont know the state of the CPU yet.

Budget hasnt really been set but maybe around 400.

I will sell the 9800 pro, cpu (if working) and graphics. Probably keep the RAM unless i decide to get 2 x 1gb strips.

As its socket A at the minute i want to get into 939 obviously.

Thanks

semi-pro waster · 24 Mar 2006 at 19:14

You don't quite have the budget to get dual core there so this is about the best compromise I can come up with. There isn't room in the budget to get more storage yet either but you can backup onto the DVDRW I suppose

MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£59.95 £59.95
CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN)
£59.95 £59.95
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£25.95 £25.95
GX-053-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-PC)
£59.95 £59.95
CP-121-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) (CP-121-AM)
£126.95 £126.95
Subtotal £332.75
VAT £58.24
Total £390.99

David _b · 24 Mar 2006 at 21:56

would it be worth while getting dual core ?

and would it be worth while selling my 2 x 512 and buy 2 x 1gb strips ?

thanks

ACESHIGH · 25 Mar 2006 at 04:29

dual core is great if you multitask, do encoding etc.
also more upcoming games are being made to utilize dual core or current games are being patched for dual core support, so dual core will be more longer lasting i would say. if you cab stretch go for the X2 3800+ (good overclockers too).

as for ram 2 Gig is probably best.