I currently have an Abit Aw9D-MAX with an E6600 C2D which happily tootles along at 3.1ghz. Fitted with 2gb of Geil PC6400, an 8800gts 640mb card, a 620w corsair PSU and about a TB of SATA drives. Finally a rather loose fitting Scythe which I definitely want to replace.
The board has some serious USB issues and generally is unreliable and almost 2 years old. It wouldn't boot for an hour tonight until I disconnected my monitor hub. Half an hour later its back with everything working fine. Basically I lost power over USB about 6 months ago and have to use powered hubs for everything.
I'd like to upgrade to something a bit more current, preferably Quad as I like my Flight Simulator and 4gb RAM, although I will be sticking with XP. I generally play strategy games and apart from the odd FSX sessions I'm not a big 'action' gamer.
Assuming I have around £400, and that I am woefully out of touch with what is good value these days, can anybody help. I am no stranger to overclocking and happy to fool around with clocks and multipliers, but it's 2 years nearly since I built a PC.
The board has some serious USB issues and generally is unreliable and almost 2 years old. It wouldn't boot for an hour tonight until I disconnected my monitor hub. Half an hour later its back with everything working fine. Basically I lost power over USB about 6 months ago and have to use powered hubs for everything.
I'd like to upgrade to something a bit more current, preferably Quad as I like my Flight Simulator and 4gb RAM, although I will be sticking with XP. I generally play strategy games and apart from the odd FSX sessions I'm not a big 'action' gamer.
Assuming I have around £400, and that I am woefully out of touch with what is good value these days, can anybody help. I am no stranger to overclocking and happy to fool around with clocks and multipliers, but it's 2 years nearly since I built a PC.
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