PC Upgrade - Help

wirefan

wirefan

wirefan

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Been a bit of a moron recently. My PSU died, and not wanting to spend loads I went to ****** in search of a quick fix PSU and paid £45 for a CIT 700w PSU which then turned out to have insufficient power cables for six pin PCI-E and for the CPU.

Anyway, in addition to this, I also damaged the CPU heatsink in removal so I am now left with an annoying situation.

My barebones systems is now:

IP35 Pro M.Board
INTEL CORE 2 DUO @ 2.4GHZ WITH NO HEATSINK/FAN
OCZ Memory 4GB Kit (2x2048) Reaper HPC Edition DDR2 PC2-8500
NO PSU
500 GB SATA HD MAXTOR
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Win7

Am I better upgrading or replacing and starting again? Would only have £300 for a new CPU, MBoard and PSU.
Also, would I be able to re-install win 7 on a new system or need a new copy?
 
OK after much deliberation, I have decided to go behind the mrs back, and fund a new (ish) build using some existing parts.

I bought a new PSU and Cooler today anyway, so now need a new board, CPU. Will stick with the current RAM (possible?) and GPU (possible?) for now and upgrade these later.

So what's the best value : performance cpu/mb combo I can go for, for around £200-£250?
 
Cheers. You have me thinking now regarding my existing setup. Maybe I'll just leave as is with the new PSU and cooler and wait to see what impact these new Intel chips have and whether they force a reduction in existing models.

I know what will happen next anyway. I'll get the new PSU, and then find out it was not that preventing the PC from firing up, and end up rebuilding from scratch anyway! :D
 
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