new pc

[singo]

lo got the Thermaltake VA8003SWA Aluminium Armour Super Tower - Silver and a 8800gtx lookin to up date my mainboard cpu and ram as im still usein old 939 3800 64 .got 250 to 300 to spend. what should i buy im more of a gamer then anything so what set up would give me the fps 4 the money. cheers singo

 

[Chimerical]

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.16GHz (1333FSB) - Retail - £129.24

Asus P5Q-E Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £99.86

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit - £28.19

Total: £262.14

Plus, (on top of that) get a Tuniq Tower or Artic Freezer 7 Pro aswell

 

[singo]

yea was thinkin that cpu .like the mainboard u put up to m8 cheers going for 4gig of oz ram i think

 

[mpj88]

i agree im looking at a build and i like the e8500 but i would maybe buy some faster memory because those chips will oc v well