The time has finally come for me to upgrade my sons PC whilst upgrading mine along the way.
It's an old Athlon 2800 32 bit cpu on some MSI motherboard and an aging agp graphics card, I plan to hopefully move him up to the 64bit world.
My PC is an
Abit IP35-E (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition"
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI
GeIL 4GB (4x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency Dual Channel
I was think of something along the lines of
AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core
Asus ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5
4GB Ram
A motherboard (no idea on this)
Should be OK on the following as I already have these
Case - Akasa Zen
PSU
Harddrive (have both spare Sata 1 and IDE)
DVD (IDE)
I'm not into overclocking so that's not a concern.
So, I'm looking to upgrade his machine but should anything I buy be better than my current PC then I'd be looking to give him my old component and use the new bits myself.
I have a budget of roughly £300-£350, is this do-able on this budget?
Any suggestions please?
Thanks
It's an old Athlon 2800 32 bit cpu on some MSI motherboard and an aging agp graphics card, I plan to hopefully move him up to the 64bit world.
My PC is an
Abit IP35-E (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition"
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI
GeIL 4GB (4x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency Dual Channel
I was think of something along the lines of
AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core
Asus ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5
4GB Ram
A motherboard (no idea on this)
Should be OK on the following as I already have these
Case - Akasa Zen
PSU
Harddrive (have both spare Sata 1 and IDE)
DVD (IDE)
I'm not into overclocking so that's not a concern.
So, I'm looking to upgrade his machine but should anything I buy be better than my current PC then I'd be looking to give him my old component and use the new bits myself.
I have a budget of roughly £300-£350, is this do-able on this budget?
Any suggestions please?
Thanks