New System required ?

[pricha3518]

Hi I have the following spec and I am looking to to upgrade possabilty a part upgrade or a full upgrade. It's a gamming rig, WIC, COD4,MOH,so I am looking for bang for bucks budget is £300.

Thermaltake Kandalf Super Tower (Keep)
DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-DR
AMD X2 3800+
2GB Ballatix Mem
Artic Freezer with Artic 5
7800 BFG Video
300Gb Segate Seta II
600w Streader PSU (Keep)

Adivce appreciated

 

[Deleted member 64478]

That system looks l like its fine except the graphics maybe. How about buying a graphics card just to boost the graphics and then maybe save up abit more to buy a new motherboard, memory and CPU?

OR you could go about selling the current componants, add the price to your current savings and lash it out on a decent C2D system

 

[jak731]

get a 8800GT/GTS/GTX dependign on the res you play at and OC your current CPU if you havent already

 

[semi-pro waster]

Depending on how important the budget is to you, one option would probably be a complete change of the core components as below.

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £24.99
(£29.36) £24.99
(£29.36)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £47.99
(£56.39) £47.99
(£56.39)
OcUK Value IP35 Pro Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £141.99
(£166.84) £141.99
(£166.84)
Sub Total : £269.96
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £47.24
Total : £317.20

 

[pricha3518]

Depending on how important the budget is to you, one option would probably be a complete change of the core components as below.

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £24.99
(£29.36) £24.99
(£29.36)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £47.99
(£56.39) £47.99
(£56.39)
OcUK Value IP35 Pro Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £141.99
(£166.84) £141.99
(£166.84)
Sub Total : £269.96
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £47.24
Total : £317.20

Cheers guys, changing just the graphics card I have thought about but I am considering a core change this sound interesting, but what's it going to give me that I haven't got remember "bang for bucks".

 

[semi-pro waster]

The CPU should be good for 3ghz+ which should make a fair difference over your current X2, exactly how far you can take it will depend on the chip itself and the cooling in the case.

Your problem here is that your existing Ram is DDR and all but one socket 775 motherboard use DDR2 or DDR3 (wouldn't buy DDR3 yet as it isn't bang for buck) and the motherboard that can support DDR isn't a very good overclocker which would mean that you miss out on one of the major benefits of changing.