Performance Boost for Socket 939 System

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Hello chaps...

I have a PC that I built from components from OcUK two and a half years ago. I'm not into gaming (console for that), so I only use my PC for web, email and office kind of stuff. Current spec:

- Abit AN8 NForce Ultra 4
- AMD Athlon64 3500+
- 2Gb DDR RAM
- OcUK Geforce 6800 256MB

I'm currently running Vista and it just about gets by so I was looking at an upgrade to an Athlon X2 4200/4400 and the OcUK ATI Radeon 1950 Pro 512MB. Any suggestions - or complete false economy?

Cheers
 
Deffo rekon vista likes a dual core. depends thou - are you actualy having any problems at the moment?

if it aint broke dont fix it and all that :)
 
Everything is working perfectly really - my XP build was rock solid for two years too. I moved to Vista a couple of months ago - and whilst I'd love to make the move to Intel Core 2 Quad not sure I can really justify the expenditure. Any thoughts on my PC3200 400Mhz memory? Currently have 4 x 512MB Corsair jobbies in at the moment?

Given Vista loves to give the disks a bit of an access I'm thinking about making a RAID0 stripe for the 2 x 250GB SATA system disks and then popping in a couple of big jobbies (in RAID1) for my data.

Finally, I'm also looking a replacing my Samsung 193P (completely love the design and "soft" image it produces though :( ) with the new 24" Samsung one.

All in all, (excluding the monitor) that'd be around £200 in giving Vista a little bit of a boost and giving me a lot more desktop estate for not much wedge.
 
Oh you only live once and its somthing new to play with.


go for it - regardless of what difference it will or wont make =p

monitor deffinatly sounds like a nice treat thou.
 
:)

Would my RAM be sufficient? Not been in touch with the finer details of Mhz/timings for a while - but would be PC3200 RAM be okay?
 
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