PC Upgrade

[liam13490]

hiya my specs are:

AMD Athon 64 X2 3800+ (2ghz)
1GB DDR2 667 Corsair
Nvidia 7600 GT 256MB

Im looking to upgrade it really but duno what to do any suggestions got about 350 -400 to spend.

 

[JoDaMa]

Hi and welcome to the forums

Are those the only 3 components you are looking to upgrade?
Will you be overclocking?

 

[liam8582007]

What do you use the system for?


Liam

 

[BillytheImpaler]

This is a pretty good rig for general use and light to medium gaming. I doubt you'll do too much better than this and stay in the budget.

 

[liam13490]

I use it for gaming, and really are looking to upgrade processer and ram or gpu and ram. all though that system does look tempting.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Well if you want to keep your current PSU, case, and HDD you can get the following which would be a huge upgrade, assuming it'll fit in your case and your PSU is up to the task:

Are you currently overclocking your X2? Is your motherboard AGP or PCI-e? A cheaper upgrade might be the X1950 Pro I mentioned above and a 1x2 GiB DDR 400 kit.

 

[liam13490]

its not being overclocked at the moment. its pci-e. i was thinking of getting amd athlon 6000+ but dunno

 

[BillytheImpaler]

You won't be able to get a 6000+ unless you get a new motherboard, as yours is socket 939 and everything higher than 4800+ is for socket AM2. At that point you might as well switch to the Intel side since they're faster for the money right now.

 

[liam13490]

my motherboard is AM2. but im thinking of overclocking cpu and getting 2gb of ram and a gts 640mb

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Ah, I misread your original post as DDR rather than DDR2. Mea culpa.

Well why not get the GTS and the 2 GiB kit? It sounds like a good idea to me.

 

[liam13490]

will my cpu be ok or should i upgrade that next payday lol

 

[BillytheImpaler]

It'll probably hold it back but it's a good foundation. A little overclocking would help quite a bit.